WI BIO - Dane Co - KREHL, Fred
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol II, pp 358-359

Fred KREHL is a member of the firm of Krehl & Beck, dealers in all kinds of 
stoves, hardware, and tinware. The firm carries a large stock in their line 
of business and has a large and flourishing trade, especially in the job work 
of the tin department. This prominent partnership was started in Jan 1891, 
succeeding the old firm of Scheibel & Krehl, which was organized 01 Mar 1883. 
The business has always been located at No. 121 and 123 East Washington 
Avenue, Madison, Dane County, WI, where the members of the firm have carried 
on a very successful business since the start.

Fred KREHL has been a resident of Madison, WI, for the past twenty-five 
years, having come to the city in 1867. After his arrival, Mr. KREHL began 
work at the tinner's trade, which he had learned in his native land, Germany. 
He was a skilled workman and received good wages for his work; these wages 
he saved and finally built a fine home for himself at the corner of 
Williamson and Jenifer Streets. He has been a very hard working man all his 
life, and the property that he now has been accumulated by his own hands.

Fred KREHL was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, 17 Jul 1839, and here he was 
reared and educated. At the age of fifteen he began to learn the trade of a 
tinner, following an apprenticeship of four years. At the age of nineteen he 
was engaged as a journeyman for a short time, after which he took a good 
position in a first class hardware establishment in Studtgart. Here he 
worked until he married, when he started into business for himself at 
Munsingen, Wurtemburg. Here he remained for four years, and then came to 
America, with hopes of doing better, and he has not been disappointed. The 
parents of our subject, Ludwig and Anna M. KREHL, [p 359] were natives of the 
same place, where they have lived hardworking lives. They were the parents 
of seven children, three of whom are still living, although Fred KREHL is the 
only one living in this country.

Fred KREHL was married to Mrs. Fredrica HEINKEL, in Wurtemberg, Germany. 
Mrs. KREHL was born and reared in Wurtemberg, where her father lived and 
died. She has three brothers now living in the U. S.: Fred, editor and 
publisher of the Workman's Courier, in Tampa [Hillsborough County], FL; 
Philip, in IA; and Christ, in NE. Mr. and Mrs. KREHL took passage on a 
steamer from Hamburg, Germany, in 1867, and upon landing in NY City, came to 
Madison, WI. At the time of their arrival in this city, they were very poor, 
but as they have been hardworking people they have managed to work their way 
to the top of the ladder of social prominence among their many good friends, 
by whom they are universally respected. Fred and Fredrica KREHL are the 
parents of five children: (1) Henry L. KREHL, foreman in his father's tin 
shop; (2) August W. KREHL, a manager of the East Madison Pharmacy, is a 
successful young man and was educated at the University of WI; (3) Pauline 
(KREHL) CUNRADI, wife of August CUNRADI, a druggist of Chicago [Cook County], 
IL; (4) Fred KREHL, who died when thirteen years of age, and (5) Ida KREHL, 
who died when eight years of age.

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