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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Emil WALTER, agricultural implements and saloon, Crete; this gentleman was born 
in Germany Feb. 12, 1842, and is the son of Charles and Augusta (SCHMIDT) WALTER, 
of Germany; father was a minister of the Lutheran Church, in 1866, Mr. WALTER 
came to America and landed in New York City; he came direct West to Illinois and 
settled in Chicago; here he was engaged as a traveling agent for the wholesale 
liquor house of SCHMIDT & CRAMER for two and one-half years. He then entered the 
U. S. Regular Army, and served as Sergeant Major for five years in the Western 
and Southern States. He returned to Chicago, and entered, the wine and liquor 
business for himself about one year; he then (in 1876) came to Crete; here he 
has been engaged in the saloon business; is also agent for reapers, cultivators, 
rakes, plows, seeders and corn-planters. Mr. WALTER was elected, in 1878, to the 
office of Town Clerk. He married Miss Eliza WERNER.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.