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Book Title: History Of Brown County, See Below

CRONE BROTHERS.

    No history of Brown county would be complete without some specific reference
to the Crone department store at New Ulm, the oldest mercantile establishment in
that city, which was founded by the late Theodore Crone in 1857, but two years
after the creation of Brown county as a civic entity, and which has been
conducted continuously since that time, Theodore Crone having continued in
business until his death in 1891, since which time it has been continued by his
sons, Carl, Theodore and Ferdinand, who long have been looked upon as among the
leading merchants of this section of the state.

    The late Theodore Crone was born in Kloppenberg, Germany, July 6, 1824, and
was trained there to the trade of a tanner. When a young man he came to the
United States and for several years was located at Buffalo, New York, after
which he went to Chicago and opened a general store in the hay market on
Randolph street. In that city he married Gesine Benning, a native of Hanover,
and in 1856, the year after the organization of Brown county, came to Minnesota
and settled at New Ulm. The next year, 1857, he opened a general store in that,
even then, promising village and remained in business there the rest of his
life, ever being regarded as a leader in the commercial and general business
life of the city. The Crone store was well established at New Ulm by the time
the Indian outbreak in 1862 interrupted all kinds of business hereabout and
after things settled down and this region began to fill up with settlers and the
city develop as its founders expected it to do, Mr. Crone began to prosper. He
was a man of great energy, enterprising and industrious, possessed of
extraordinary business judgment, far-seeing and prudent, and from a small
beginning built up a large business. Diligent in his own affairs, he ever found
time to promote the wider interests of the public at large and was ever known as
a leader in all movements designed to advance conditions along all proper lines
hereabout. In all his activities he had in his good wife a most valuable and
competent helpmeet and both were held in the highest esteem throughout this
whole section of the state. Theodore Crone died in 1891, at the age of sixty-six
years, and his widow survived him until 1902, she having been eighty years of
age at the time of her death.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana


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