EDWIN HENNING (1852-1918)

Edwin Henning died October 19, 1918 at his residence 4839 Dorchester Avenue Chicago, Ill, aged sixty six years. He was born in 1852 at Ann Arbor Mich where he attended the University of Michigan and after graduating he started in the cooperage business with his father David Henning who was operating several
slack and tight stave mills and two cooper shops at Ypsilanti and Williamston Michigan. The business was founded by his father in 1856 and the cooperage end
has been continued ever since. It is worthy of note that David Henning was the originator of the packing of apples in barrels and was widely known throughout
the apple producing territory as the apple king.

 E. Henning has not been personally active in the cooperage business for the past twenty years devoting his attention to other interests among which might be
mentioned the Leavenworth Kansas Gas Co, Springfield Mo Gas & Electric Co and at the time of his death he was president of the Calhoun Gas Co of Battle Creek, Mich. He was a member of the Chicago Athletic Club the South Shore Country Club and the Los Angeles Cal Athletic and Country Clubs having large personal interests in Los Angeles He was also afliliated with the Alumnae of the University of Michigan and was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade for many years. He is survived by his widow. The business of E. Henning, Inc., 105 South La Salle Street, Chicago which is a continuation of that founded by David Henning in 1856 will be carried on as heretofore and the investment Mr. Henning had in the company will also remain in it Mr. M Taafie being named by his will as
executor of the estate to serve without bond Mr. Henning was a liberal contributor to all deserving charities irrespective of creed or nationality. He was held in high esteem by all his friends in the cooperage business in which he was very well known some years ago having been an important factor in the eighteen hundred and eighties when he succeeded to that part of the business on the death of his father.

Source: Barrel and box and packages, Volume 23, By Edgar Harvey Defebaugh

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Name: Edwin Henning
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Death Date: 19 Oct 1918
Death Place: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Gender: Male
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Age: 66
Estimated Birth Year: 1852
Birth Date: 11 Feb 1852
Birthplace: Michigan
Father: David Henning
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Father's Birth Place: Ireland
Mother: Julia Lathrose
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Mother's Birth Place: Michigan
Occupation: Cooperage manufacturer
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Burial Date: 20 Oct 1918
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Cemetery: Oakwoods Vault  773-288-3800  ( cremated, remains removed on Feb. 21, 1919)
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Digital Folder Number: 4205864
Image Number: 899
Film Number: 1852687
Volume/Page/Certificate Number: rn 30885
Collection: Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947