John Michael Kohler
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John Michael Kohler II was an Austrian American immigrant, industrialist, and politician. He most notably founded and led the Kohler Company and served as the 27th mayor of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. He wa
John Michael Kohler in 1873
Jacob Vollrath
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Jacob Johann Vollrath was an industrialist in the city of Sheboygan, Wisconsin in the United States. He founded The Vollrath Company.
John Michael Kohler
…Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 56 miles north of Milwaukee on Lake Michigan, he met Lillie Vollrath (1848–1883), the daughter of local steel and iron industrialist Jacob Vollrath (1824–1898). The couple was married in 1871. Shortly after his marriage, Kohler worked at the steel and iron factory his father-in-law partly owned…
Jacob Vollrath 1824–1898