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The early history of the Ritter Dental Company is a success story and centered around the life of the Founder, Frank Ritter. In August of 1870 Frank Ritter, a cabinetmaker by trade, came to New York City from his native Germany. The following year after experiencing the heat of a New York summer to which he was unaccustomed, he moved to Amsterdam, New York, where he continued to work at his skill as a cabinetmaker. In 1872 with a friends suggestion, he moved to Rochester where the climate was cooler and more like his native Astheim, a small village in Wurzburg in Bavaria. Frank Ritter was an industrious and tireless worker. Remarks from his co-workers that he worked too hard were not uncommon. His reply was, "If I did not work so hard and save out of my earnings I would always just work at the bench". It was not long before he was repaid for his thrifty and diligent habits. After being in Rochester for only one year and just three years from the time he first arrived in the United States, Frank started his own business. His capital consisted entirely of what he had been able to save from his earnings during these three years, a truly remarkable feat, even for those days. Frank's early business was the production and sale of ornamental carvings for parlor furniture. It was not long before he expanded into manufacturing complete parlor furniture of high quality. His small factory, located on the second floor of a building on River Street, was occupied on the ground floor by an iron foundry.

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