Past and present of Washtenaw County, Michigan . treet and Fourth avenue, where hisbusiness has grown with such rapidity as to beclassed with the mammoth industrial and commer-cial concerns of .n Arbor. He ships large quan-tities of bread out of the city and has a splendidlyequipped plant in which are immense ovens builtespecially for Mr. f leusel at a cost of thousands ofdollars. There is machinery operated by steampower for the mixing of dough and in fact the es-tablishment is equipped with all of the latest andmost modern devices known to the bakers occupies a large new building in
Past and present of Washtenaw County, Michigan . treet and Fourth avenue, where hisbusiness has grown with such rapidity as to beclassed with the mammoth industrial and commer-cial concerns of .n Arbor. He ships large quan-tities of bread out of the city and has a splendidlyequipped plant in which are immense ovens builtespecially for Mr. f leusel at a cost of thousands ofdollars. There is machinery operated by steampower for the mixing of dough and in fact the es-tablishment is equipped with all of the latest andmost modern devices known to the bakers occupies a large new building in the conductof his business and furnishes employment to manymen and women. Mr. Heusel fraternally is connected with theOdd Fellows of Ann Arbor and the local Germansocieties and he is a member of the Zion Lutheranchurch. He was married in 1888 to Miss MaryLilivelt. descended from Holland ancestry, herparents having been early settlers of became the parents of three children: Fred-erick, who at the age of sixteen years is a high-. SA^IUEL HEUSEL. PAST AND PRESENT OF WASHTENAW COUNTY. 293 school student in Ann Arbor; Sadie, tliirtcenyears of age, also in school: and Hilda, sevenyears of age. who has just entered upon herschool life. On the 21st of August, 1005. was called upon to mourn the loss of hiswife who died after a few days illness of appendi-citis. Mr. Heusel deserves great credit for what hehas accomplished since crossing the New York in 1880, he found himself ina new country where the manners and customs ofthe people were very different from those of thefatherland and he probably often longed for thelittle German home across the sea. However,he was brave and determined and faithfully inn-sued his work and through careful industry andfrugal living he succeeded in saving a sum ofmoney which enabled him to engage in businessfor himself. He wisely chose the west with it^almost limitless opportunities as the scene for hislabors and t
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