Saturday, June 11, 2011

75 Year History of the Kohrs Packing Company


The Atlantic Cable had bridged the gap between Old World and New, the Union-Pacific Railroad had linked East to West, and the nation was beginning to think in terms of celebrating the one hundredth year of its independence at Philadelphia when a determined man of forty-two, a highly respected citizen of Davenport, Iowa, realized the ambition which had fired his dreams since boyhood. The year was 1872; the boy grown man was Henry Kohrs; the ambition was the establishing of a meat-packing house bearing the name Kohrs. 1

75 Year History of the Kohrs Packing Company

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Reference
1. Kohrs Packing Company, 75 Years, Davenport Iowa, Bawden Brothers. 1947. Published by Bawden Bros., Inc. Davenport, Iowa.

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