Dive Brief:
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A construction wireman came face-to-face with the grandfather he never met while working on a job at a hospital in Zanesville, Ohio. Sort of.
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A crewmate of the 24-year-old electrician found a seven-foot electrical conduit bearing the signature of Hugo Schneider—the grandfather the young tradesman was named after—dated 1964. It turns out the elder Schneider, who died in 1989, was also an electrician and worked at the same hospital 50 years ago.
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The grandson took the pipe home and plans to hang it in his garage, where he spends his free time.
Dive Insight:
Schneider told local journalists he lives in his grandfather’s old house and found a beam on which the older man wrote: “Hugo Schneider built me!”