LAKE GENEVA-Allen A. Shoup, 62, 1632 Lake Shore Drive, Lake Geneva, died early Tuesday morning in his home. Born Aug. 5, 1903, in Chicago, the son of George and Herme Andrews Shoup, he married Marion Rodi Whit June 16, 1961, in Chicago. They had resided in Lake Geneva four years. Mr. Shoup was a graduate of Washington State College and joined the engineering department of Westinghouse Electric in East Pittsburgh in 1928. In 1930 he moved to RCA in Camden, N. J., where he was a research engineer four years and then joined Ampro Projector Corp. as chief sound engineer. In 1941 he founded Shoup Engineering Co. in Chicago and headed the firm until 1955. One of his many inventions was a pioneer tape recorder, probably the first used successfully anywhere in the world. During World War II he was a recording engineer at Eniwetok Adam Testing Center. Due to a heart ailment complicated by diabetes, Mr. Shoup retired and established the Shoup Engineering Corp. in East Troy. He was associated in 1960-62 with Gibbs Manufacturing and Research Corp. in Janesville and worked on the electronic organ built by the firm until leaving to devote full time to another of his inventions, the Broilitzer, manufactured in East Troy. During his three years with Gibbs he perfected his invention for treating fresh milk to permit it to be stored as fresh milk. He was the holder of many patents in the electronics field. In 1955 he purchased a 624-acre dairy farm east of East Troy where he did much of his research with his fresh milk storage project, and was the promotor for the establishment of Rainbow Spring Lodge, well known spot for fishermen and hunters in Walworth County. Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Herme Karen, East Troy, and Mrs. Thomas Seaven, Chicago; three sons, Wayne, of Harvard, Ill., Gordon, of Wichita, Kan., and Major Anthony Wait, U.S. Marine Corps, Washington, D.C.; 11 grandchildren; a sister, Miss Carol Shoup, Chicago; and a brother, Fred, of New Jersey. Entombment will be in Queen of Peace Mausoleum, Hillside, Ill.
Janesville Daily Gazette Tuesday and Wednesday May 4 and 5, 1965