Biographical Sketch of Hesse & Wickenhoefer, St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Hesse & Wickenhoefer, manufacturers of carriages, buggies and spring
wagons. This firm established their trade in the spring of 1881.
They both accomplished workmen, and in first-class work and general
repairing, promise in the future to rival the older establishments.
Fred Hesse, is a native of Saxony, Germany, and was born October 30,
1840; was reared and learned his trade in his native country, and
came to the United States in 1868, locating in St. Joseph, Missouri.
For a number of years he was in the employ of Conrad Tanner. In 1877,
he erected the shop now occupied by John Haflinger. His wife was
formerly Miss Mary Brombecker. They have two children: Minna and
Herman. He is a member of the I.O.O.F. Encampment, and Foresters.
Jacob Wickenhoefer was born in Hessen, Germany, March 25, 1855, and
came to the United States in 1871, locating in Farmington, Iowa,
where he learned the wagon making trade. After this he worked in
different points in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri, coming to St. Joseph
in the spring of 1877. Until 1881 he was in the employ of William
Pape. Mr. Wickenhoefer is one of the accomplished workmen and popular
young men of this city; he is a member of the Turner Rifles.

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