Zwicker, Robert Amos "Emil"

1857 - 1933  (76 years)    Has no ancestors but 53 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Zwicker, Robert Amos "Emil"
  Nickname	Emil
  Born	22 Nov 1857	Sachsen, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	Between 1873 and 1886
  Occupation	Abt 1873	Vienna, , Wien, Austria
  Knitted the first Sweater
  Knitted the first Sweater
  Occupation	Abt 1886	Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  Superintendent of Jonas Block Knitting Company
  Superintendent of Jonas Block Knitting Company
  Occupation	Between 1888 and 1905	Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA
  Superintendent of the Central Knitting Company
  Superintendent of the Central Knitting Company
  1900 Census	1900	Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA
  Emil Zwicker 42 Minnie Zwicker 42 Emma Zwicker 21 Otto Zwicker 18 Ella Zwicker 11 Walter Zwicker 9 Frank Zwicker 5 Dewey Zwicker 2
  Occupation	Abt 1905	Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Crescent Knitting Company
  Crescent Knitting Company
  Occupation	Abt 1907	Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Started the Saxony Knitting Works
  Started the Saxony Knitting Works
  Biography	1911
  History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Page 1156
  ROBERT AMOS ZWICKER, president of the Saxony Knitting Works of Appleton, Wisconsin, one of the largest concerns of its kind in Northern Wisconsin, is one of the self-made men of Outagamie county, and has won his present prominence in the business world through the sheer force of his own industry and business ability. Mr. Zwicker was born in Saxony, Germany, November 22, 1857, and is a son of Robert and Amelia (Roeder) Zwicker, both of whom spent their lives in the Fatherland. In his native country, Mr. Zwicker learned the trades of knitting and machinist, and while engaged in the former occupation traveled in practically every country in Europe, his work winning the gold medal for his employers at Vienna, in 1873. He made probably the first sweater ever manufactured, this article then being known as a jacket. On first coming to the United States, he remained in Milwaukee for a short time, and then took up a homestead in Ashland county, where he cleared land and engaged in farming for three years, and later made fence posts and burned charcoal, as well as engaging in other lines of occupation in order to earn enough money to send for his family. A slump in the market, at a time when Mr. Zwicker was just beginning to prosper, found him with fourteen cars of fence posts and seven cords of wood on his hands that he was unable to sell, and he was forced out of business. Nothing daunted, however, he went to Sheboygan, where he remained six months, earning $1.50 per day at knitting shawls and jackets, and was enabled to send for his family in Germany and have $50 left. With this amount, in 1886, he settled in Milwaukee, where he later became superintendent for the Jonas Block Knitting Company, and in 1888 went to Cleveland, Ohio, being superintendent of the Central Knitting Company for seventeen years, when his health failed and he was compelled to go to Colorado. Later he went to Oregon, where he regained his health, residing on a farm for two years, and again went to Cleveland, where he remained until 1905, in which year he came to Appleton for the Crescent Knitting Company, which was sold in 1907. At this time, Mr. Zwicker decided to enter the business himself, and the Saxony Knitting Works were organized, with Robert Amos Zwicker, president; Arthur Zwicker, vice-president, and Otto H. Schultz, secretary and treasurer. The firm manufactures gloves, mittens, ladies' and gentlemen's sweater coats, shawls, fascinators, neckties and mufflers, under the well known trade-mark of "Sax-o-nit." The firm employs from forty to fifty men, and its goods find a ready sale among the large jobbing concerns, which have been handling the product since the company started with ten machines. The company was incorporated in 1910 with the same officers. Mr. and Mrs. Zwicker were married in Germany, and ten children were born to them, of whom four are deceased, the survivors being: Emma, who married a Mr. Kemmon, of Plymouth, Wisconsin; and Arthur, Ella, Walter, Fred and Dewey.
  	Zwicker, Robert Amos (Emil) Biography from History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin; 1911.
  Obituary	23 Nov 1933
  The Rhinelander
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  	Zwicker, Emil Obituary
  Died	23 Nov 1933	Eagle River, Vilas, Wisconsin, USA
  Media	Abt 1988
  Zwicker Knitting Mills You Tube video story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Ih4ZOKQIw&feature=share
  Person ID	I144938	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	23 Dec 2017

  
  

  Family	Rumpeltine, Wilhelmina "Minnie",   b. Abt Jan 1858, , , , Germany ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	Abt 1878	, , , Germany
  Children	1. Zwicker, Emma,   b. Abt 1879,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Zwicker, Otto,   b. Abt 1880,   d. Bef 1910  (Age ~ 29 years) + 3. Zwicker, Arthur Emil,   b. 12 Jan 1882, , , , Germany ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Zwicker, Ella,   b. Abt 1888,   d. Yes, date unknown + 5. Zwicker, Walter,   b. 27 Oct 1892, Rockford, Mercer, Ohio, USA ,   d. 31 Jul 1929, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 36 years)   6. Zwicker, Fred,   b. Abt 1895,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Zwicker, Dewey Sampson,   b. 12 May 1898,   d. 22 Sep 1969, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 71 years)
  Last Modified	1 May 2010
  Family ID	F54566	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Born - 22 Nov 1857 - Sachsen, Germany Occupation - Knitted the first Sweater - Abt 1873 - Vienna, , Wien, Austria Married - Abt 1878 - , , , Germany Occupation - Superintendent of Jonas Block Knitting Company - Abt 1886 - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Occupation - Superintendent of the Central Knitting Company - Between 1888 and 1905 - Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA 1900 Census - 1900 - Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA Occupation - Crescent Knitting Company - Abt 1905 - Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA Occupation - Started the Saxony Knitting Works - Abt 1907 - Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA Died - 23 Nov 1933 - Eagle River, Vilas, Wisconsin, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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