In this installment of "Western Michigan at work," Dr. Willis Dunbar profiles the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company. Dunbar gives a brief history of vegetable parchment paper and tells the story of Jacob Kindleberger, who immigrated to the United States as a young man and eventually moved to the Kalamazoo area to open the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company in 1909. Dunbar also gives an overview of the ways the company has expanded since 1909 interviews a variety of company employees including Dr. James Pollack, pastor at the Parchment Community Church, Henry Smith, a paper cutter, and Winifred Schultz, a company clerk.
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