- EDWARD AMERPOHL, Janesville, Wis., was born at Brodhead,
this state, on May 25, 1871,
- to Christ and Elizabeth AMERPOHL, natives of Germany, and
who emigrated to America and settled at Baraboo, Wis., in the
early forties, and later resided at Madison and Brodhead, where
he died in 1891 at the age of seventy-one years.
- Edward is one of a family of eight children, all of whom,
with the mother, are still living. He
- received his education in the public schools of his native
town and followed the trade of a carriage painter until 1900,
when he came to Janesville, Wis., and became owner and proprietor
of the Janesville Floral company, located at 214 South Main street.
He has rebuilt and added to his original buildings until now
(1907) he has 12,000 feet of glass-covered greenhouses. He is
the originator of the Nephrolepis Amopolili fern. He does a
large retail and shipping business in fresh cut flowers and design
work.
- In political sentiment he is a Republican; as candidate for
alderman from the Third ward in the
- spring of 1907, he was defeated after a hotly contested campaign.
He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, B.P.O.E. Eagles and
Unique Club.
- Mr. AMERPOHL was married in 1894 to Miss Aida COLBY, of Brodhead,
to whom has been
- born one child, Harold E.
-
- Taken from "Rock County, Wisconsin, Vol. II"
by William Fiske Brown, (c)1908, pp. 895-896.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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