of McHenry County, Illinois · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Charles Kruse
Charles Kruse⚭ Anna Mordhorst
childrenHelen S. Kruse · Charles E. Kruse · Anna Bernice Kruse · John Wallace Kruse
Source: History of McHenry County, Illinois (1922)
Their story
What the record says
Tinner/plumber turned hardware merchant.
Learned tinner's trade, resident of West Chicago then moved to Richmond, McHenry County in 1898, erected store building 1905 ($12,000).
Incorporated business as Kruse Hardware Company Jan 1920.
Owned 115 acres in Richmond Township, 125-acre farm in Randall Township, Kenosha County, Wis. Republican.
Lutheran.
Vice-president of State Bank of Richmond, president of Business Men's Association.
His father was a section foreman for the Northwestern Railroad (still living).
His mother died Nov 6, 1919.
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