Industrial history of Milwaukee, the commercial, manufacturing and railway metropolis of the North-west : its great natural resources and advantageous location as a shipping point, with a review of its general business interests, including history of Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, statistical and descriptive, to which is added a series of sketches of the prominent places and people of the Cream City, the rise and progress of firms, institutions, and corporations . from 3,000 to 40,000lbs. All this vast machinery is propelledby a superior Corliss engine of over fiftyhorse-power. In all the depa
Industrial history of Milwaukee, the commercial, manufacturing and railway metropolis of the North-west : its great natural resources and advantageous location as a shipping point, with a review of its general business interests, including history of Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, statistical and descriptive, to which is added a series of sketches of the prominent places and people of the Cream City, the rise and progress of firms, institutions, and corporations . from 3,000 to 40,000lbs. All this vast machinery is propelledby a superior Corliss engine of over fiftyhorse-power. In all the departments oftheir business they require the aid ofabout 200 operatives, many of whom areskilled artisans. This important homeenterprise turns out every description ofpieced and stamped tinware, dripping pansand elbows, besides dealing extensively instamped,, japanned and granite shipments of this firm are to almostevery State in the Union, reaching fromNew York to San Francisco, and have anannual trade of upwards of $300, tin plate is procured direct fromEngland, while the sheet iron comes fromPittsburg. The members of this firm areF. Kieckhefer, W. Kieckhefer and , all native Milwaukeeans, and areamong the most enterprising business menin the city. The trade is largely indebtedto this energetic firm for many importantimprovements—inventions of their own—in this direction, which have beenadopted by other large tinware 96 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MILWAUKEE. ALBERT TROSTEL, (Of the late firm op Trostel & Gallun.) Tanner and Dealer in Leather, Find-ings, Tools, Oil, Etc. 104 West Water Street. ONE of the most successful houses ofthe leather industry in our city, isthat of Albert Trostel, the senior partnerof the late firm of Trostel cfe Trostel began with a small tannerytwenty-seven years ago on the Milwau-kee river, adjacent to the present site ofthe State street bridge. Without a store,and doing only job work for his custom-ers, he
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