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HENKER, Fred

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HENKER, Fred. Saxony, Germany, July 12, 1864--Unknown). At the age of fourteen, Henker began serving an apprenticeship to the miller's trade. After his term of service had expired he continued to work in Germany as a miller for a number of years. He was a young man of twenty when he determined to seek a home in America.

In 1884 he arrived in Dubuque. He found employment in the Rockdale Flouring Mill, where he remained for a year, after which he went to South Dakota, spending two and a-half years.

Henker returned to Dubuque and in 1888 formed a partnership with August HAMMEL. Hammel, Henker & Co. purchased a mill equipped it with fine roller process machinery and all the latest improvements in their line of trade. They manufactured a superior grade of flour, turning out four varieties, known as the "Key City Roller Mills Best," "Queen of Iowa," "Miller Clover Leaf Patent" and "White Loaf." They also manufactured rye, graham and buckwheat flour, pearl corn meal, coarse meal and ground feed. The mill had a capacity of one hundred and fifty barrels daily of a high grade patent and family flour.

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Source:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Dubuque, Jones and Clayton Counties, Iowa. Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1894, p. 218