- HENRY E. RANOUS, though yet a young man, has attained prominence
as a druggist and
- pharmacist in Janesville, Rock County, and stands high among
the younger business men of the city. With a thorough preparation
for his calling, his future is secure. He has those personal
qualities that win popular favor and attract patronage, and his
friends anticipate for him a successful career.
- Mr. RANOUS was born in Watertown, Wis., Sept. 5, 1870. His
parents, Clark and Lydia
- (LINDON) RANOUS, also native of this State, had three children:
Henry E.; Nellie Mary, wife of Charles SCHALLER, of Janesville;
and Francis Andrew, of Fond du Lac, Wis. Clark RANOUS is a railroad
man, being freight agent for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
in Janesville, of which city he has been a resident since 1872,
and his manly and upright qualities, joined to his thorough business
abilities, have won him a large circle of friends. He was a
soldier in the war of the Rebellion, enlisting from Jefferson,
Wis., and while in the service suffered from prolonged and serious
sickness. After he came back from the war he secured a position
with the Northwestern, and has remained with that road to the
present time. Politically he is a Republican. His father was
born in the State of New York, came West, located in Palmyra,
Wis., and died in middle life; he had a large family. The maternal
grandfather of Henry RANOUS, Edwin WILLIAMS, a native of New
England, came to Columbus, Wis., many years ago, and died soon
after. His widow married Joseph LINDON, and her daughter took
his name. Mrs. RANOUS is an Episcopalian.
- Henry E. RANOUS was two years old when his parents brought
him to Janesville, and here he
- spent his childhood and youth, attending the city schools.
He was graduated from the Janesville high school in 1889, and
began the study of pharmacy with Frank SHERER, spending two years
under his supervision, was a student in the Chicago College of
Pharmacy, and came back to Janesville to go into business with
W. T. SHERER, under the firm name of W. T. SHERER & Co.
This partnership continued for five years, and was terminated
by the withdrawal of Mr. RANOUS, for the purpose of uniting with
Dr. ST. JOHN in the purchase of the drug business of PRENTICE
& EVENSON. They took the firm name of H. E. RANOUS &
Co., and the business associations thus formed have proved in
every way profitable and pleasant, and are still unbroken. Mr.
RANOUS is a member of the Episcopal Church; fraternally is a
Master Mason, affiliating with Janesville Lodge, No. 55, A.F.
& A.M.; and in political sentiment is a Republican. He lives
at home with his parents.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c)1901, pp. 907-908.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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