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[[Image:DSC01277_1.jpg|left|thumb|150px|A.F. Frudden. Photo courtesy: Bob Reding]] | [[Image:DSC01277_1.jpg|left|thumb|150px|A.F. Frudden. Photo courtesy: Bob Reding]] | ||
[[Image:frudden-2.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Headstone in Linwood Cemetery]]FRUDDEN, Arbst F. (Island of Fohr, province of Schleswig Holstein, Germany, Sept. 10, 1854-Apr., 1931). | [[Image:frudden-2.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Headstone in Linwood Cemetery]]FRUDDEN, Arbst F. (Island of Fohr, province of Schleswig Holstein, Germany, Sept. 10, 1854-Apr., 1931). Eventually the president of the[[FRUDDEN LUMBER COMPANY]], Frudden came to Dubuque in 1884 as a foreman with the Carr, Ryder, and Wheeler Sash and Door Manufacturing Company. | ||
He remained with the company four years before resigning to organize with his brother and F. A. Rumpf a line of retail lumberyards known as the Frudden Lumber Company. A line of wholesale lumberyards was organized as the Engler-Frudden Lumber Company. This later became the Rumpf-Frudden Lumber Company. | He remained with the company four years before resigning to organize with his brother and F. A. Rumpf a line of retail lumberyards known as the Frudden Lumber Company. A line of wholesale lumberyards was organized as the Engler-Frudden Lumber Company. This later became the Rumpf-Frudden Lumber Company. | ||
Revision as of 15:57, 4 March 2024
FRUDDEN, Arbst F. (Island of Fohr, province of Schleswig Holstein, Germany, Sept. 10, 1854-Apr., 1931). Eventually the president of theFRUDDEN LUMBER COMPANY, Frudden came to Dubuque in 1884 as a foreman with the Carr, Ryder, and Wheeler Sash and Door Manufacturing Company.
He remained with the company four years before resigning to organize with his brother and F. A. Rumpf a line of retail lumberyards known as the Frudden Lumber Company. A line of wholesale lumberyards was organized as the Engler-Frudden Lumber Company. This later became the Rumpf-Frudden Lumber Company.
Locally, Frudden was a director of FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DUBUQUE and the Northeastern and Central Iowa Lumberman's associations.
See: A. F. FRUDDEN-1027 WEST THIRD
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Source:
Goodspeed, Weston Arthur, History of Dubuque County, Iowa. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association, 1911, p. 652