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CHRISTIAN LOETSCHER, is the general manager of the works of the Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Company, which was established in 1875 by C. Loetscher, W. R. Clark, J. Rickerd and A. B. Carlin. They began the manufacture of sash, doors and blinds and continued business here as a partnership until 1877, when the name was changed to the Farley-Loetscher Company. Business was carried on under this style until 1881, when a re-organization was effected and duly incorporated under the laws of the state. The capital stock is $200,000, and the present officers are J. P. Farley, President; C. Loetscher, Vice-President and general manager; and C. M. Peesli, Secretary and Treasurer. They manufacture doors, windows, blinds, mouldings and brackets, do stair and church work and deal in American and French plate window glass and building paper. They also make a specialty and carryon hand a large stock of hardwood furnishings for public buildings, private residences, churches, banks, etc. They also manufacture special designs. A five hundred horsepower engine runs the machinery, and a force of one hundred and seventy-five workmen is employed. Their made embraces the territory covered by Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and many of the southern states. They employ two traveling salesmen, and their business is constantly increasing.

Mr. Loetscher was born in Switzerland August 2, 1850, and was educated in his native country, attending school until his seventeenth year, when he emigrated to the United States, locating first in San Francisco, CA, where he remained for four and a-half years. In 1872 he came to Dubuque, where he engaged in clerking for two years. His parents were John and Margaret Loetscher. In the year of his arrival in this city he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Loetscher, of Iowa, and to them have been born nine children. They are members of the Presbyterian Church, and their home is a fine brick residence, situated at No. 1015 Lincoln Avenue.

In connection with his other business interests Mr. Loetscher is Vice-President of the Dubuque Pressed Brick Company, and also of the Dubuque Specialty Machine Works. In business he is straightforward and honorable, and occupies a position in business circles which might well be envied. He is practical yet progressive and the success of their large business is due to his untiring and well directed efforts. He started out in life for himself without capital save a young man's bright hope of the future and a determination to succeed, but nevertheless he worked his way upward and is now connected with some of the leaning industries of the city. He carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes, and his perseverance and enterprise have been the important factors in his prosperous career. In politics he is a Republican.