Lacrosse-Sauk-Washington County WI Archives Biographies.....Salzer, John A. 1823 - 
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JOHN A. SALZER, proprietor of the La Crosse Floral Gardens, on South Seventh 
street, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1823; son of John G. Salzer, a 
nurseryman and fruit-raiser; came to America in 1846; lived four years in 
Galena, Ill., four years in Iowa; then lived six years in Wisconsin - Baraboo, 
West Bend and Manitowoc; then three years in Peru, Ill., and came from there 
to La Crosse in 1863; has been in his present business since 1866. He has 
eight greenhouses and about 9,000 feet under glass. In connection with his 
garden, he has an apiary of about eighty stands of bees, and produces from 
3,000 to 4,000 pounds of honey per annum.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 789.

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