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"Frank E. Behrendt"

FRANK E. BEHRENDT is proprietor of the Windsor Hotel, of Janesville, an elegant three-story
brick building just completed, and furnished throughout with fine new furniture, bedding, tableware and everything required to make a complete first-class house. It contains forty rooms, including sample rooms, all well lighted and ventilated; the sleeping apartments are large and cheerful and the halls are wide, fully lighted and afford good ventilation. The house is heated throughout by steam, with hot and cold water, bath rooms and a system of electric bells, in fact most complete in all its appointments. Mr. BEHRENDT, the proprietor, is a courteous gentleman, and having had several years experience as a traveling man, it has taught him what the modern traveler expects to find in a well appointed, first-class hotel. He has had charge of the construction and fitting up of the Windsor, which was opened on the 26th day of January, 1889, and has spared no pains or expense in making his house a model establishment of its kind.
Mr. BEHRENDT was born in Janesville Sept. 29, 1866, and is the son of Anton and Mary
(NEWMAN) BEHRENDT. He was educated in the city schools, after which he spent three and a half years in learning the jeweler's trade, and in 1885 began traveling as salesman for the Leonard Silk Company. Later, he was with the Nonotuck Silk Company, continuing with the last named until July, 1888, when he left the road to superintend the building and furnishing of the Windsor. He is a member of the Commercial Traveling Men's Association, of Janesville, and is one of the promising young business men of the city.
 
Taken from "The Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock County, Wis." (c)1889, pp. 586.
 
Courtesy of Carol

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