Louis Henry Thurow

1860 - 1943  (83 years)

• Name	Louis Henry Thurow
  Birth	14 Sep 1860	Kolberg, , Pomerania, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	1877
  	From Germany
  Occupation	Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA
  	proprietor, Thurow box company
  Residence	1912-1937	Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA, 153 Harriet Street
  _UID	0293EABA7ED54401859603B38741F1CA2519
  Death	26 Dec 1943	Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I47	Larry and Jane's Family Tree
  Last Modified	22 May 2023

  
  

  Father	William Thurow,   b. Abt 1824, Colberg, , Pomerania, Germany d. 1870, Colberg, , Pomerania, Germany (Age ~ 46 years)
  Mother	Wilhelmina Voght,   b. Abt 1843, , , , Germany d. 1911, , , , Germany (Age ~ 68 years)
  Family ID	F36	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Emma Lenore Staack,   b. 23 Dec 1859, Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA d. 7 Nov 1941, Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	24 May 1883	Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA
  Children	1. Herbert Richard S. Thurow,   b. 8 Feb 1884   d. 13 May 1969, Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA (Age 85 years)   2. Clara Thurow,   b. 13 Aug 1885, Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA d. 13 Jan 1966, Ojai, Ventura County, California, USA (Age 80 years)   3. Laura M. Thurow,   b. 11 Nov 1887, Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA d. 3 Sep 1990, Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA (Age 102 years)   4. Otto Fredrick Thurow,   b. 17 Jul 1889, , , Minnesota, USA d. 31 May 1974, Fresno, Fresno County, California, USA (Age 84 years)   5. Gertrude Helen Thurow,   b. 18 Feb 1891, Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA d. 13 Oct 1976, Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA (Age 85 years)   6. William Julius Thurow,   b. 7 Feb 1893, Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA d. 7 Feb 1978, Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA (Age 85 years)   7. Hildred Rosamond Thurow,   b. 25 Sep 1897, Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA d. 30 Aug 1993, Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA (Age 95 years)
  Family ID	F14	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2019

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 14 Sep 1860 - Kolberg, , Pomerania, Germany Occupation - proprietor, Thurow box company - - Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA Marriage - 24 May 1883 - Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA Death - 26 Dec 1943 - Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Louis_Thurow.jpg
  		Louis Thurow and grandson, Louis James Wilson
  		Louis Wilson, cousin James Thurow, and Dave Wilson with grandparents, Louis and Emma (Staack) Thurow At cottage on Mississippi River at Dakota, MN
  		Emma and Louis Thurow, Hildred and Rolland Wilson on steps Probably taken at Louis Thurow's house in Winona
  		Louis Thurow and Grandson, James Thurow At cottage on Mississippi River near Dakota, MN
  		Louis and Emma Thurow At Rolland and Hildred Wilson's new home on Washington Street in Winona
  		William Julius Thurow, Louis Thurow, Don Phillips (Laura Thurow's husband), Rolland Harvey Wilson, Sr. At Louis Thurow's Cottage on Mississippi River between Dakota and La Moille, MN.
  		Louis and Emma Thurow Family
  		Family at Thurow Cottage in Dakota Louis Thurow, Emma Thurow, Louis James Wilson, ?, ?, James Thurow, Dave Wilson, Hildred Wilson, ? Can anyone help identify the other persons in this photograph?
  		Louis and Emma (Staack) Thurow
  		Aunt Clara, Mrs. Courtney, Emma and Louis Thurow At new house on Washington Street in Winona
  		Louis and Emma Thurow and Grandson, Herky At Rolland and Hildred Wilson's new home on Washington Street in Winona
  		Louis Thurow Box Company Ad Ad placed in the Irish Standard Newspaper, Minneapolis, MN, 1 Sep 1915, p. 32.
  		Louis Thurow Steamboat Days Tribute -1949 From the Winona Daily News, 12 Jul 1949, p. 6

  
  

• Notes

  From The History of Winona County Minnesota, compiled by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Editor in Chief, Assisted by William Jay Whipple, Reviewer of Manuscripts and a Large Corps of Local Contributors, Illustrated, Volume II, Chicago, H.C. Cooper Jr. and Co., 1913 (Copy in Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul), page 694: Louis H. Thurow, extensive box manufacturer, was born in Pomerania, Germany, September 14, 1860, son of William and Wilhelmina (Voght) Thurow. He received a good education in the old country and learned his trade as a cabinetmaker. At the age of eighteen he came to Winona from Germany, and secured work in a flour mill for several years. Then he entered the employ of the Bohn Manufacturing Co., and remained in its employ for twenty-seven years. In 1907 he started a box manufacturing plant at 625 West Tenth Street. The business grew immediately, and is now one of Winona's large industries. The present shops are located on West Third street, at the corner of Wilson. Mr. Thurow is the sole owner and proprietor. He manufactures wooden boxes, box "shocks," crates, beer and soda cases, window and door frames, poultry coops and the like. Mr. Thurow is a member of the Dryads and of the Eureka Club. The subject of this sketch was married in May, 1885, to Emma Staack, daughter of M. Staack. Mr. and Mrs. Thurow have seven children: Herbert, Otto, William, Clara, Laura. Gertrude and Hildred. William Thurow died in Germany, in 1870, at the age of forty-six years. His wife Wilhelmina died in Germany, in 1911, at the age of sixty-eight. Louis H. was the only one of the family who came to America. From the Winona Republican-Herald, 6 Mar 1907, p. 3: AN INDUSTRY FOR WINONA A Small Factory is to be Operatin in This City by Two Local Men --------- MAKE EUREKA MOP WRINGER The Device is Practical One and is Being Received With Much Favor --- Many of the Machines Are Now in Use Here. --------- A new manufacturing industry is now being started in Winona on a small scale with every prospect that it will grow to much larger proportions. The gentlemen back of the enterprise are L. Thurow and Arthur J. Smith, and the article which they have started to make is the Eureka mop wringer. The device is a practical one and has already found much favor with those who have given it a trial. It is the invention of Mr. Thurow. The first machine was made in WInona about four months ago. The many good points of the device and the favor with which it has been received have encouraged Messsrs. Thurow and Smith to engage in its manufacture. Up to the present time they have had the machine made at some of the woodworking plants in the city, but now they have decided to engage in its manufacture themselves, and have accordingly proceeded to the erection and equipment of a small factory budiling and expect to begin making the mop wringers in a about a week or two. The factory builing is located on West Howard street and is a frame structure 20 by 35 feet in size and two stories high. The manufacturing business will be carried on on the ground floor and the second floor will be used for storage. An electric motor will furnish the desired power. There are already fifty of these machines in use in WInona and these are creating a demand for more. At the courthouse and the Winona they are in use. A few shipments have been made outside the city. Withe the completion and equipment of the factory building an endeavor will be made to push the sale of the machines, and it is expected the business will grow very considerably in the near future. The Eureka mop wringer is buildt and designed for speed, durability, service and strength. With it a a wonderful pressure is produced with only light leverage power aided by four rollers. Large rollers spread the mop and small rollers regulate the speed. The machine is being made in three different sizes, ten inch for flat or residnece use, twelve inch a medium size for general work, and the large fourteen inch for all around work. The movement of the mop thru the rollers is produced by turning a small crank, doing away with the use of both feet and also the strain of the back. The two main rollers of the wringer are of hardwood. The first or feed roller is deeply corregated as to more easily raise the mop thru the rollers. Both rollers are deeply grooved on each side crossways so to prevent the water from flowing over the edges of the pail. The pail may be quickly changed or emptied without moving any part of the wringer. From the Winona Republican-Herald, 17 Oct 1907, p. 8: INDUSTRY OF BOX MAKING --------- Has Been Started in Winona and Ap- pears to Have Bright Future --------- STARTED BY LOUIS THUROW If it Secures the Home Patronage it Deserves it Should Become a Very Successful Undertaking - On West Howard Street --------- A manufacturing industry which has been started on a small scale but for which there appears to be a large field if the encouragement of home patronage is bestowed is being carried on by Louis Thurow at 625 West Howard street. Mr. Thorow has engaged in the manufacture of boxes. He has since the winter been associated wtih A.J. Smith in the making of patent mop wringers, and now the box making will be carried on at the same place, but it is expected to enlarge the industry considerably. While Mr. Thurow has been interested in this business for some little time the work has been done by Charles Beeman, but now Mr. Thorow has resigned his poisition with the Empire Lumber company and is giving his whole time to this work. At present Mr. Beeman is not there owing to an injury he recently received to one of his fingers, but when he has recovered from this he will return. The box factory is now at work on a large order received from the Interestate Packing company for crates for its products. The demand for these creates will be more or less permanent and will alone give quite a little business to the factory. THre are many other manufacturing institutions here which use a good many boxes in the shipment of their product and Mr. Thurow proposed to docnuct his buisness in such a way as to merit and receive this patronage. The quarters at present occupied on West Howard street are a two story barn. The lower floor of this has been fitted up into a workshop, and the upper floor is used for storage. For the present it is large enough to meet needs, but if the business grows enlarged quarters will be provided as necessary. Mr. Thorow, who has carefully looked over the ground, figures that there is plenty of business in this line in Winona to give steady employment to at least eight hands and he hopes to work up to the point where this number will be engaged. Meanwhile the manufacture of the mop wringers will not be abandoned. An extended writeup of these wringers and their particular merits was given in these columns last spring. There are quite a number of these wringers now in use in Winona and they have received the hearty endorsement of those using them. As their merits become better known outside the city the demand for them is expected to increase. As yet they have been but little represented on the road. But by pushing their sale the number to be made could be increased quite materially Many a large manufacturing institution has grown from such a small beginning as this and Winona desires to encourage small as well as large manufacturing institutions. (Medical):He lost four fingers of his right hand in an accident with a circular saw in his box company on 6 Oct 1910 according to a story in the Winona Republican-Herald on 7 Oct 1910, p. 3.

  
  

• Sources

  [S451] Minnesota Historical Society, 30 May 2004 (Reliability: 3).