Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Kiene, Otto 1834 - 
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OTTO KIENE, pork-packer, was born in Holstein, Germany, in 1834; came to 
America in 1862; lived in Minnesota one year, and came to La Crosse in 1863. 
In 1864, he bought his present location, 34 and 36 Pearl street, and engaged 
in butchering, which he continued till 1869. Then, in company with his 
brother, George Kiene, he built a packing-house near Gund's Brewery, at a cost 
of over $18,000, and continued business under the firm name of Kiene Brothers 
till 1877, when they dissolved partnership, and Otto Kiene returned to his old 
place on Pearl street, and continued business alone. When he bought his 
present place on Pearl street, there was only a small frame building, and in 
1879 he put up a fire-proof brick building on the same lots, in the rear of 
the frame, 32x120, at a cost of about $4,000, and in 1880 purchased the house 
built by himself and brother near Gund's Brewery, and uses it for a slaughter-
house. Packs about 4,000 hogs the present year, business amounting to upwards 
of $80,000, and employs eighteen to twenty men.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 768.

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