WI BIO - Sheboygan Co - RICHARDS, E. R.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol II, p 
997

E. R. RICHARDS, manager, Sheboygan Mineral Water Company [Sheboygan, 
Sheboygan County, was born 27 February 1851at Roxbury [Dane County], 
Wisconsin, and came to Sheboygan in 1876. He has been engaged as a traveling 
salesman, and since 1880 as manager of the Sheboygan Mineral Water Company, 
which was organized in May 1880, and was composed of E. R. RICHARDS, E. W. 
KOCK and H. H. KUENTZ. They carried on the business up to 01 November 1881, 
when the concern changed hands, and it is now composed of E. R. RICHARDS, the 
manager; and Messrs. STUART and HARVEY. They have a privilege from the City 
of Sheboygan to use the water up to 1886. They employ some eight hands 
bottling the water, the daily consumption of which is about 500 gallons.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly