Louis W. Dingeldey, proprietor of a first-class, up-to-date shoe repairing establishment at [318 Euclid Avenue], was the first man in Cleveland to introduce modern machinery in the repair of footwear. He was born in Sidney, Ohio, September 20, 1873, a son of John and Anna E. (Stutz) Dingeldey. The latter was a daughter of John Stutz, who emigrated to the United States from Switzerland, when his daughter was twelve years old.  John Dingeldey, a native of Germany, crossed the Atlantic to America when a lad of twelve years and by dint of earnest labor provided the funds necessary for his education. He worked at the moulder's trade until he had saved sufficient money to pursue the theological course at Capital University of Columbus, Ohio, for he had determined to enter the Lutheran ministry. His first pastoral charge was at Sidney, Ohio, and later he established a branch church at Anna, this state, serving both congregations with consecrated zeal. Subsequently he went to Richmond, Indiana, to take charge of the Wernle Orphans Home, where he remained for thirty years. On the expiration of that period he came to Cleveland and here served as pastor of Peace Lutheran Church to the time of his death, which occurred in [1916], when he was seventy-one years of age. His wife also passed away in Cleveland.

Louis W. Dingeldey acquired a public school education at Richmond, Indiana, and continued his studies in the Lutheran Teachers Seminary at Woodville, Ohio. On returning to Richmond, Indiana, he embarked in the retail shoe business, conducting an enterprise of that character until 1896, when he sold out and came to Cleveland. Here he entered the shoe department of the Cleveland Dry Goods Company and later established a shoe repairing business in the basement of Nate Danby's store. Subsequently he conducted his repairing business in a space leased from the Stone Shoe Company and on the 10th of March, 1932, opened a large shoe repairing establishment at [318 Euclid Avenue], his present location. There is also a splendidly appointed barber shop, under lease to others and a clothes pressing establishment. In 1930 Mr. Dingeldey invented the “As-You-Wait" sanitary foot-rest, which he manufactures in his own shop and which is now sold all over the United States.

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In July, 1931, he opened a private golf course near Solon, Ohio, a nine-hole course beautifully laid out, on which stands a comfortable club house amid attractive surroundings. The privileges of this course are ex-tended to the public for the nominal fee of fifty cents per day. During the summer months Mr. Dingeldey makes his home on the farm which he owns at the golf links.

In 1895 in Cleveland Mr. Dingeldey was united in marriage to Miss Anna E. Haag, a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Their eldest child, Lenore, died in infancy. The other members of the family were as follows : Louis [George], associated with his father in business, who married Agnes H. Egan and has two children, Lois and Robert ; Carl, who is deceased; Elmer, who graduated from the [Ohio University] on the completion of a course in journalism ; and [Eleanor], twin sister of Elmer, who is connected with the Guardian Trust Company of Cleveland.

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Alburn, Wilfred Henry & Miriam Russell; Dr. Charles Franklin Thwing and Mr Elbert Hall Baker (Consultants and Advisers); S. J. Clarke (Publisher). (Chicago 1933). This Cleveland of Ours - Volume IV, pp. 789-790.

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Rev. John Dingeldey died on November  21, 1916

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        Louis William Dingeldey died on March 16, 1938 (also known as Ludwig Wilhelm Dingeldey)

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                Elmer William Dingeldey died on July 18, 1980

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                Louis George Dingeldey died on March 6, 1983, the same year as the first Kula Open

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