In 1909, after E. H. Close left the George E. Pomeroy Company, he established the E. H. Close Company.Winter, N. & Litt, D. (1917) A History of Northwest Ohio: A Narrative Account of Its historical Progress and Development from the First European Exploration of the Maumee and Sandusky Valleys and the Adjacent Shores of Lake Erie, down to the Present Time. Chicago & New York: Lewis.Memoirs of Lucas County (1911?). Close had played a significant part in what was then suburban development in and around Toledo, Ohio; these developments included most notably Harvard Terrace and Ottawa Hills, but also the lesser known developments of Halsted Heights, Hillcrest Gardens, Homewood Park, Home Acres, and others.Killits, J. (1923) Toledo and Lucas County Ohio 1623-1923 Vol. II. S.J. Clarke: Toledo/ Chicago: 238.

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