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Identifier: historyofmilwauk02bruc (find matches)
Title: History of Milwaukee, city and county
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Bruce, William George, 1856-1949 Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), b. 1844
Subjects: Milwaukee (Wis.) -- History Milwaukee County (Wis.) -- History
Publisher: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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store which he still owns and isyet active in its conduct and management, althq^gh now past eighty years of age. Heoften makes trips to New York city for the purpose of buying goods and his judgmentand enterprise in business equal that of many younger men. Herman Reel pursued his early education in Cassel, Grermany, the same schoolattended by members of the royal family, and while thus engaged studied the variousleading languages save English. After coming with his parents to the new world heattended Myers Commercial College of Milwaukee for a short time and then entered thestore with his father, under whose direction he received his preliminary businesstraining. After a brief period, however, he became identified with the wool and furwarehouse of Rosenberg & Lieberman and spent five years with that concern, duringwhich time he gained comprehensive knowledge of the business in its various details.In 1889 he established business on his own account as a dealer in wool and fur and is
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HERMAN REEL HISTORY OF .MII.WAIKKK 787 still active in this tield of einleavor. having his place of business in Chicago, which wasmade the distributing center during the World war by the government. In 1912 Mr.Reel began the publication of a paper which he called The Progressive, a tradejournal issued in the interests of the fur trapper and wool grow-er. He made the littlemagazine what its name implied—a progressive organ of the trades represented, givingto the public most interesting matter concerning the wool and fur market. In 1914,with the assistance of his sister, Mr. Reel opened a retail house on Grand avenue,where he is now situated. He has the largest specialty store of the kind in the countryand his place is altogether unique in that his customers are served only in individualbooths or rooms. The spirit that has always actuated Mr. Reel was strongly manifest in the factthat when a young man, in association with a number of other young men, he decidedthat he wished to study

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