Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Blashek, Robert April 1853 - 
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ROBERT BLASHEK, proprietor of the La Crosse Woolen Mills, on Eighth street, 
between Market and Winnebago; was born in Austria in April, 1853. His father, 
France Blashek, came to the United States in 1859, and settled in La Crosse 
April 25. He immediately commenced building the machinery for a woolen-mill, 
which he erected on the site of the present one, and where he carried on 
business till his death, June 19, 1875. Robert worked in the mill with his 
father from the time he was 8 years old, and has carried on the busines since 
his father's death. He is doing custom work, and also buying wool and 
manufacturing. He is unmarried, and lives with his mother, who owns an 
interest in the mill. His brother Ernest, who is living with them, is a 
composer and also a teacher of violin music.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 738.

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