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Notes for John Preston LEVIS
J. P. Levis, Ex-Head of Owens-Illinois
Guiding Figure in Company's Expansion Dies at 71
Toledo, Ohio, April 18 - J. Preston Levis, former president and retired chairman of Owens-Illinois, Inc., died yesterday in Toledo Hospital. He was 71 years old.
Mr. Levis was president of Owens from 1941 to 1950 and was board chairman, from 1950 to April, 1968, when he retired. He was credited with guiding the firm's expansion into plastics as well as paper products.
Mr. Levis was a 1924 graduate or Cornell University, where he majored in mechanical engineering. In 1963 the university established a chair in that subject in his name. He was also a Cornell trustee.
Mr. Levis was a former board member of the University of Toledo and of the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo. He was a past president of the Toledo Museum of Art. He was a former president and general manager of the Owens-Illinois Pacific Coast Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Owens-Illinois.
Mr. Levis was also a member of the board of directors of the Libbey-Owens-Ford Company and the Toledo Edison Company here. He was a retired director of the National Association of Manufacturers and of the Toledo Trust Company. In 1971 he was one of five men named to the Hall of Fame of the Packaging Education Foundation.
He was a member of the Cloud Club, the Explorers Club and Links and the Hobe Sound (Fla.) Club. Survivors include his widow Charlotte; two daughters, Mrs. Harriett L. McFarlane of Preoria, South Africa and Mrs. Annette Boice of Toledo ; a son, John P. Levis Jr. of Louisville, Ky., and 11 grand children.
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