Title: A history of the northern peninsula of Michigan and its
people;.
Author: Sawyer, Alvah L. (Alvah Littlefield), 1854-1925.
Collection: Michigan County Histories Page 791
EMIL GUENSBURG.-Associated with his brother, Adolph E. Guensburg, as a
member of the firm of A. E. Guensburg, the subject of this sketch is
one of the interested principals in the ownership and conducting of
the Grand department store in Menominee, which has precedence as one
of the largest and most important institutions of its kind in this
section of the country. Further reference to the enterprise is made in
a sketch of the senior member of the firm, on other pages of this
work. Emil G. Guensburg was born near the city of Prague, Bohemia, on
the 20th of November, 1865, and is third in order of birth of the
children of Herman and Leonora (Neuman) Guensburg, both of whom passed
nearly their entire lives in Bohemia. Of their children five are now
living. Mr. Guensburg was reared and educated in his native land,
where he continued to make his home until 1882, when he came to
America and joined his brother Adolph E. in the city of Oconto,
Wisconsin. Subsequently the two were associated in the conducting of
general stores at Florence, Wisconsin, and Crystal Falls, Iron River
and Norway, Michigan. In 1893 his brother engaged in the general
merchandise business in Menominee and in 1898 he himself came to this
city, where the two have since been actively allied in the conducting
of the Grand department store. Alert and progressive as a business man
and loyal in all civic relations, Mr. Guensburg has a secure place in
popular confidence and esteem in Menominee and is recognized as one of
its representative business men. His political allegiance is given to
the Republican party and he is affiliated with the York Rite Masonic
bodies in the city, as well as with Michigan Sovereign Consistory of
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in the city of Detroit, in
which he has attained the Thirty-second degree. In that city he also
holds membership in Moslem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of Menominee Camp, No. 1794,
Modern Woodmen of America, and also holds membership in the Modern
Brotherhood of America and the Order of Yeomen. On the 1st of January,
1899, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Guensburg to Miss Delia C.
Eckstein, who was born and reared in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
and they have two sons,-Lester Herman and Edgar Adolph. |
