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RMIL.IR MERZOG. 



Died July 15, 1894. 



Philip Herzog was born at Oldeuheini on the Rhine, 

 Bavaria. He came to America at 12 years of ag'e and 

 learned the cabinetmaker trade at Auburn, N. Y. He was 

 married to Jane Halliday, of Ogdensburgh, N. Y., 48 years 

 ago. He came west soon afterward and engaged in the 

 furniture business at Racine, Wis. From Racine he 

 moved to Prescott and thence to Hastings, this state. He 

 came to Minneapolis in the year 1866 and started the inan- 

 ufacture of wooden fences by machinery under name of 

 the Northwestern Fence Works, of which he was the pro- 

 jjrietor, and which grew to large proportions under his 

 management. When the use of fences for lawn enclos- 

 ures were largely done away with the business was 

 gradually changed into foundry and structural iron 

 works, under the names of Philip Herzog, Philip Herzog 

 & Son, and the Herzog Manufacturing Compan3% which 

 took front rank among the manufacturing industries of 

 the Northwest. He withdrew from the presidency of the 

 last mentioned corporation and active business in Febru- 

 ary, 1877, since which time he has lived mostly upon his 

 farm at Groveland Station, Lake Minnetonka, in which he 

 took great pride and pleasure. Owing to the sickness of 

 his invalid wife he has been residing at No. 28(X), Henne- 

 pin avenue, the past 3'ear, where he was taken awaj'' by 

 Bright's disease at 1 o'clock P.M. Mr. Herzog has always 

 been regarded as one of our most sterling, reliable and 

 progressive business men, and his cheer3' smile and pleas- 

 ant greeting will be greatly missed by his many friends 

 in the Twin Cities. 



Mr. Herzog joined this society in 1888 and became a life 

 member in 1890. He did not take an active part in the 

 deliberations of the society, but often attended its ineet- 

 ings and was always much interested in its work. 



