"Our Dad" : his career and his philosophy
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- Created Date
- 1941
- Description
Peter Edward Kroehler, born in 1872 in Minnesota, came to Naperville in 1893 to help run the Naperville Lounge Company with Professor J.L. Nichols. In 1915 it became Kroehler Manufacturing Col, a national leader in furniture industry innovation and marketing. At one time, it was the world's largest furniture manufacturer. Peter Kroehler's thoughts on salesmanship are included. Chronology.
- Creator
Delmar Leroy Kroehler and Kenneth Kroehler
privately printed in a limited ed
- Contributing Institution
- Naperville Public Library
- Collection
- Naperville Heritage Collection
- Subjects
- Naperville Lounge Company -- Naperville (Ill.) -- History
Kroehler Manufacturing Company -- Naperville (Ill.) -- History
Furniture industry and trade -- Illinois -- Naperville -- History
Manufacturing industries -- Illinois -- Naperville -- History
Kroehler, Peter Edward
Naperville (Ill.) -- Biography
Furniture industry and trade -- U.S. -- History
Labor and laboring classes -- U.S. -- History - Type
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- Language
- English
- Rights
- Copyright held by Barry Worthel, permission to display granted to the Naperville Public Library
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- Delmar Leroy Kroehler and Kenneth Kroehler, privately printed in a limited ed. "Our Dad" : his career and his philosophy. 1941. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/npl/id/18872. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Delmar Leroy Kroehler and Kenneth Kroehler, privately printed in a limited ed, (1941) "Our Dad" : his career and his philosophy. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/npl/id/18872
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- Delmar Leroy Kroehler and Kenneth Kroehler, privately printed in a limited ed. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/npl/id/18872>.