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HOETICULTURE 



December 2, 1916 



Obituary 



William L. Kroeschell. 



The trade was greatly shocked 

 when news of the sudden death of 

 Wm. L. Kroeschell, at the Illinois Ath- 

 letic Club on Thursday eve., Novem- 

 ber 23, was announced in the local 

 papers the following morning. Mr. 

 Kroschell was one of four brothers 

 who in 1876 founded the firm of Kroe- 

 schell Bros. Co. tor manufacturing 

 boilers, in which business he was ac- 

 tively engaged to the day of his 



WnjjAM L. Keoeschell 



death, having spent Thursday as usu- 

 al in his office. Wm. L. Kroeschell 

 was born sixty-one years ago in Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., coming with his parents 

 to Chicago when a child and re- 

 ceiving his education in the city 

 schools. His first business venture 

 was on the Board of Trade, later be- 

 ing member of the commission firm of 

 Gerstenberg & Kroeschell and in 1900 

 he became active in the manufacture 

 of boilers and was secretary and 

 treasurer of the firm. In the branch 

 of the firm which manufacturers ice 

 machines he was also secretary and 

 director. 



Mr. Kroeschell was a man who 

 loved to meet with other men and, as 

 a representation of one of the most 

 important of the allied trades, he was 

 well known to the florists, being a 

 life member of the Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists, the American Carnation 

 Society, the Chicago Florists' Club, 

 the American Rose Society and the 

 American Vegetable Growers' Associ- 

 ation, at whose convention held this 

 summer many in the trade saw him 

 last, when he was toastmasier at the 

 banquet. He was also a member of 

 the Board of Trade and the Illinois 

 Athletic Club, and had a beautiful 

 home at Winnetka, a north-shore sub- 

 urb. 



Mr. Kroeschell leaves a wife, two 

 daughters, Mrs. Robt Butz and Mrs. 

 E. C. von Ammon, an aged mother, 

 a sister and two brothers. His father 

 who was a designer and hydraulic 



PLANTS DE LUXE 



AZALEAS, Petrick and Vervaeneana, 

 $12.00 per doz. and upwards. 



PRIMULA chinensis, $3.00 a doz. and up- 

 wards. 



BEGONIAS, Cincinnati and Melior, S9.00 

 to $12.00 per doz. 



Also PALMS» FERNS, ARAUCARIAS, 



Etc. 



A fine lot of Euphorbia and Poinsettias 



W. W. EDGAR CO., 



WAVERLEI, 

 MASS. 



and mining engineer, and built the 

 first tunnel for water intake in Chi- 

 cago, has been dead for several years. 



S. J. Reuter. 

 S. J. Reuter, senior member of the 

 firm of S. J. Reuter & Son. Westerly 



S. J. Reutee 



R. I., passed away on the night of 

 Thursday, November 23. Mr. Reuter 

 had been in delicate health for some 



time and his death was not unexpect- 

 ed, and his family had realized that 

 he would never get out again. 



S. J. Reuter was born in the city of 

 Mainz, Germany, October 7, 1851, and 

 came to America in 1872, landing in 

 New York on Election Day of that 

 year. He remained in New York until 

 February and from there went to Nor- 

 wich where he worked on two private 

 places as gardener and all-around 

 man, staying there a little less than 

 eight years, when he went to Mystic, 

 Conn., for a few months and then 

 moved to Westerly where he estab- 

 lished the present business in 1880. In 

 the year 1907 the business which had 

 hitherto been in his own name was 

 incorporated, his son Louis J. going 

 into the company. He was a member 

 of the Society of American Florists 

 and life member of the American Rose 

 Society. 



Mr. Reuter was an energetic, very 

 hard worker. He was a man who 

 would push through anything which 

 he undertook, and by virtue of this he 

 built up by degrees a splendid estab- 

 lishment. He was a business man of 

 strict integrity and possessed in a 

 large degree those manly qualities 

 which win respect and personal es- 

 teem and leaves a record of achieve- 

 ment of which his family may well 

 feel proud. The funeral on Sunday 

 was under Masonic direction and was 

 attended by a large concourse of 

 friends among whom were Patrick 

 Welch, E. Allan Peirce, W. H. Elliott 



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