Caspar Hennecke, born on December 19, 1833 in Schönholthausen, left his native Sauerland in 1854 as a conscript without the permission of the authorities and sought his fortune in America. Equipped with knowledge of farming, a thorough vocational training in his parents' business and familiar with the typical Sauerland trade, he reorganizes himself again and again in various networks (including the search for gold in Pike's Peak) and thus becomes an important entrepreneur in America.
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Plaster portrait busts and statues, one by C. Hennecke & Co., Milwaukee