Ralph E. Ablon

Ralph E. Ablon was an American executive. He built a large conglomerate from his family scrap metal company.

Ralph Emil Ablon was born on Oct. 26, 1916, in Tupelo, Miss., one of eight children of Zemore Ablon, a used-car salesman, and Louise (Strauss) Ablon, a homemaker.

The family moved to Dayton, Ohio, in 1929, and Ralph attended high school there. He majored in chemistry at the Ohio State University and was the business manager of the football team before graduating in 1938. He was briefly a graduate teaching assistant in English before marrying Sylvia Luria in 1939. He also served in the Navy.

Ablon died on November 2, 2021 at the age of 105.