FREDERICK L. EGELHOF

The business sign is seen just to the left of the clock on the left side of the block. Photo courtesy: Bob Reding.

Photographer unknown, “[Casket show room of undertaker Fredrick Egelhof],” Loras College Digital Collections, accessed May 29, 2014, https://digitalcollections.loras.edu/items/show/228.

FREDERICK L. EGELHOF. In 1890 Egelhof started his mortuary business at 1355 Central.

The 1909 Dubuque City Directory gave this business address as 1034 Main. The 1922 Dubuque Telephone Directory listed 464 Main. In 1933 Egelhof Funeral Home relocated to 1145 Locust. Charles L. "Chuck" EGELHOF assisted his father in the business while attending the College of Mortuary Science at St. Louis, Missouri. After service in WORLD WAR II, David Egelhof became associated with the firm creating Egelhof Father & Sons.

In 1943 Egelhof Funeral Home merged with Oscar Huebsch Funeral Home.

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Source:

"Egelhof Funeral Home," Telegraph Herald, June 17, 1951, p. 8