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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 347-348



FRED KLINK.

	Fred Klink is the president and treasurer of the K. & B. Packing 
& Provision Company of Denver. He was born in South Germany on the 30th 
of November, 1859, and is a son of John and Katharine (Giraud) Klink, 
both of whom have passed away. The son came alone to the United States, 
landing in New York city in 1877, when a youth of but eighteen years. 
He remained in the metropolis for only a short time and then went to 
Cincinnati, Ohio, where he resided for twelve years, during which time 
he was employed by large packing and provision houses and there 
thoroughly acquainted himself with every branch of the business, 
gaining knowledge and experience which has been of the utmost value and 
use to him in later years. He arrived in Colorado in 1889. with Denver 
as his destination, and on reaching this city established a wholesale 
meat market at his present location at Nos. 1525 to 1531 Blake street. 
Upon this site, in 1912, he erected the present handsome building that 
houses the K. & B. Packing & Provision Company, a corporation that is 
now doing an immense business in the handling of fresh meats, lards and 
other goods of that kind. Mr. Klink is associated in the undertaking 
with William F. Falligan, who is vice president of the company, and A. 
M. Klink, who is the secretary. Something of the volume of their 
business is indicated in the fact that they employ fifty or more men 
and they have a splendid organization, so that maximum results are 
accomplished with minimum expenditure of time, labor and material, 
which is the secret of all success. Mr. Klink is also the president of 
the Denver Packing & Provision Company, located at No. 4800 Washington 
street, and employs fifty or more men in that connection. He is 
likewise extensively and successfully engaged in the live stock 
business, owning large ranches in Wyoming. He is also vice president of 
the Emporia Elevator & Feeding Company of Emporia, Kansas, with immense 
elevators and sheep sheds, where thousands of sheep and cattle are fed 
and from that point shipped to market. Forceful and resourceful, his 
efforts have extended still farther into business lines and he is now 
the president of the Western Hotel Company, which operates and owns the 
Midwest Hotel of Casper, Wyoming. Whatever he undertakes he carries 
forward to successful completion. He is a man of keen sagacity, readily 
recognizing the value of opportunity and quickly eliminating from all 
business conditions their non-essential elements or incidental 
features. Using only those things which are most worth while, he builds 
upon a safe basis, looking beyond the exigencies of the moment to the 
opportunities of the future. He has that clear judgment which prevents 
unwarranted risks and failures and as the years have gone by he has 
placed himself in a most prominent position in business circles in 
Denver.

	Mr. Klink has been married twice, his first union being with Miss 
Frederika Houser, who passed away in Cincinnati. For his second wife he 
chose Miss Augusta Wineng, a native of Kentucky, by whom he has three 
children. Frederick William, now twenty-two years of age, was educated 
in a military school in the east and is bookkeeper of the Denver 
Packing & Provision Company. He is a worthy exemplar of the Masonic 
fraternity, belonging to Denver Lodge, No. 5, A. P. & A. M., and is a 
popular young man of much promise of whom his parents have every reason 
to be proud. He has enlisted in the Quartermaster's Department and is 
now stationed at Camp Logan. Irma Sylvia is a student at the Wolcott 
School of Denver, an excellent institution for girls. Ralph Edmund, six 
years of age, is also attending school.

	In Masonry Mr. Klink has attained high rank, being identified 
with Schiller Lodge, No. 41, A. F. & A. M.; Colorado Consistory, No. 1, 
S. P. R. S.; and El Jebel Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S. He is also 
connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent 
Protective Order of Elks and is likewise a member of the Denver 
Athletic Club. The career of Mr. Klink is one which may well serve as a 
source of Inspiration. and encouragement to those who know aught of his 
career. He started in the new world as practically a penniless 
emigrant. He has worked his way steadily upward to a notable point of 
success, with large interests under his control, and his business is of 
a character that contributes to the prosperity and progress of any 
community in which he operates. Moreover, he is a public-spirited man, 
highly esteemed by reason of his personal worth and honored by reason 
of his valuable contribution to matters of citizenship and civic 
betterment.