Chester Orr

Orr played on and captained several Case Tech football teams, who were considered the best college football teams in the state of Ohio. He played quarterback, punter, kicker, punt returner, and kick returner on teams who defeated the Ohio State Buckeyes twice, and who won the Ohio Athletic Conference in its first three seasons of existence –1902, 1903, and 1904. Case Tech went undefeated against rival Western Reserve all three seasons.^[3]

Orr worked for numerous companies until joining the Union Metal Manufacturing Company of Canton, Ohio, in 1925. He held various positions such as a director for the Canton Museum of Art, director of the Canton Chamber of Commerce, and trustee of Aultman Hospital.^[4]

Chester Orr ended his career as president and chairman of the board of Union Metal Manufacturing Company Orr, dying on October 10, 1950, of a cerebral hemorrhage.^[5] Orr is buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Canton, Ohio.