. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. NovEMBEU 30, IOK;. The Florists'Review 25 Mr. CushinjTf married four times. ][e was essentially a" home man, Imt was alliliated with the IJhodo Island Jlorti- eultinai Society and the Florists' an<l (iardeners' Club of Jvhodo Island, lie is survived by liis -uife, one dau(;;htcr by a former marriage and three sisters. W. II. M. William L. Kroeschell. News of the sudden death of William L. Kroeschell brouj;ht sorrow to his many friends in Chicago, as it will to many hundreds of florists throughout the United States who did not liave the plea
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. NovEMBEU 30, IOK;. The Florists'Review 25 Mr. CushinjTf married four times. ][e was essentially a" home man, Imt was alliliated with the IJhodo Island Jlorti- eultinai Society and the Florists' an<l (iardeners' Club of Jvhodo Island, lie is survived by liis -uife, one dau(;;htcr by a former marriage and three sisters. W. II. M. William L. Kroeschell. News of the sudden death of William L. Kroeschell brouj;ht sorrow to his many friends in Chicago, as it will to many hundreds of florists throughout the United States who did not liave the pleasure of his personal ac(iuaintance, bnt who faced his name every time they entered their fire pits. Mr. Kroeschell was found dead sit- ting in an alcove just off the library of the Illinois Athletic Club in Chicago on the afternoon of November 23. lie was GL years of age, having been born in Nashville, Tenn., May L'2, 1855. While he was still a youth the family removed to Chicago and he was educated in the Chicago public schools. Although the family long had been identified with lioiler-making, Mr. Kioeschell's first business experience was on the l)oard of trade. In 1881 he became a member of the grain commission firm of Gerstenberg & Kroeschell, which did a successful business until its dissolution in 1900, when, on tlie death of an older brother, Mr. Kroeschell entered Kroeschell Bros. Co., becoming its secre- tary and treasurer. The last sixteen years of his life were devoted to its business, the greenhouse boiler de[)art- ment being in his special charge up to the time its management largely was dele- gated to Fred Lautenschlager. But Mr. Kroeschell always took a special inter- est in the greenhouse trade and the liusiness his company does with florists. lie also was secretary of Kroeschell Bros. Ice Machine Co. and a director in both corporations. Mr. Kroeschell not only was a man of thorough business integrity, but pos- sesseil unusual qualities in the way of remembe
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