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SAGINAW CITY.

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increase of the business from year to year. This is peculiarly a
Saginaw institution, and from this line of practical and unstrained
individual efforts are coining the best results every where in the
way of " small manufactures." His business has grown from
102,300 cigars manufactured in 1868 to 408,000 in 1877.
August F. W. Krause, restaurant; born near Berlin, Prussia,
Jan. 18, 1824, and was reared and educated at Berlin. At an early
age he entered business with his uncle, and continued with him up
to the time he came to America. July 16, 1852, he landed in New
York, and in the fall of the same year came to Saginaw county,
settling on a farm in Tittabawassee tp., where he remained
13 years. For two years he kept a boarding house at the
Wayne county salt blocks, and then came to Saginaw and opened
a restaurant and saloon on Water street, opposite where the Mackinaw bridge stands, which he ran for two years, when he was burned
out by fire, and removed to the corner of Hamilton and Mackinaw
streets, operating there two years. In September, 1870, he fitted
up his present place on the corner of Court and Hamilton streets,
and is now doing a first-class business. He is the one who introduced oysters in the city as a regular trade, and keeps them in
large varieties the year round. His rooms are kept up in a good
and attractive manner, and he lias on hand a fine assortment of
all kinds of refreshments and cigars, etc.
Mr. Krause was married at Berlin in 1848 to Augusta Pohl, who
came to this country four years after her husband did. They have
a family of 6 children-Clara and Augusta, both married and
residing at Berlin; Mary, married to Henry Croll, a resident of
the city; Paul, August and Emima, residing at horne, and one child,
deceased. He is a member of the Teutonia and Knights of Honor,
which societies he has been connected with for some time.
Peter H. Kroymann, born at Hollstein, near Hamburg, Germany, May 1, 1832, where he was brought up and received his
education. July 9, 1855, he came to America, and landed in New
York, where he remained for two months and a half, working at
the shoemaker trade, which he learned in the old country. He then
came to Michigan and settled at Birmingham, Oakland Co., where
he remained until Sept. 13, 1856, when he came to Saginaw. In 1858
he opened a shop of his own and worked at his trade until 1867.
In 1868 he started a liquor store, and keeps on hand a full supply
of wine, beer and cigars. He first opened on Water street, and in
1873 moved to his present place on Hamilton street. Sept. 21,
1863, he was married to Matilda Wengutt, a native of Germany,
and they have 7 children, 5 sons and 2 daughters, residing at
home.
Lucius Lacy, farmer, sec. 21, was born at Logansport, Ind., Sept.
7, 1842. His parents, Ezra and Gertrude (Bower) Lacy, came to
this county in 1850; the former built the old "Exchange Hotel,"
on the corner of Ames and Water streets, Saginaw City. Mr. Lacy
is a mason by trade, and in 1864 enlisted in Co. C, 29th Regt.