Obituary:
Following an illness with which he became afflicted a year ago, William H. Dreier, aged 76 years, one of Fort Wayne’s pioneer druggists, a veteran of the civil war and for many years one of the city’s most successful business men, is dead at his home, 630 West Berry street. Death, which occurred at 6:30 o’clock Saturday evening, came without a struggle.
Mr. Dreier was born in Madison, Ind. , being the only surviving member of a family of four children. He received his education in the Catholic parochial schools and the St. Mary’s college at Lebanon, Ky. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in the union army and as a corporal participated in Morgan’s famous raid. Following his honorable discharge from the army, Mr. Dreier came to Fort Wayne and together with his brother, Henry Dreier, who was wounded in the civil war while serving as an army prescriptionist, purchased the drugstore of Casper Schoeff, continuing in partnership until 1875, when Henry Dreier died. Several years later Mr. Dreier purchased the Hugh B. Reed pharmacy at the corner of Calhoun and Columbia streets, where he built up one of the largest and best paying drugstores in northern Indiana.
Mr. Dreier was a member of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, the C. K. of A., Holy Name society, the Fourth degree Knights of Columbus and the Fort Wayne lodge of Elks. The decedent was united in marriage to Miss Mary Corcoran. One daughter, Miss Genevieve, preceded the father in death.
Surviving relatives include the following children: Mrs. Edward T. Gilmartin, Mrs. Walter G. Hamilton, wife of Lieutenant Walter G. Hamilton, of the Sixty-ninth Engineers; Miss Frances Dreier, of this city, and five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 8:30 o’clock at the home and at 9 o’clock at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Interment will take place in the Catholic cemetery. Friends kindly are asked to omit flowers.
Fort Wayne News Sentinel
Sept. 9, 1918
Following an illness with which he became afflicted a year ago, William H. Dreier, aged 76 years, one of Fort Wayne’s pioneer druggists, a veteran of the civil war and for many years one of the city’s most successful business men, is dead at his home, 630 West Berry street. Death, which occurred at 6:30 o’clock Saturday evening, came without a struggle.
Mr. Dreier was born in Madison, Ind. , being the only surviving member of a family of four children. He received his education in the Catholic parochial schools and the St. Mary’s college at Lebanon, Ky. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in the union army and as a corporal participated in Morgan’s famous raid. Following his honorable discharge from the army, Mr. Dreier came to Fort Wayne and together with his brother, Henry Dreier, who was wounded in the civil war while serving as an army prescriptionist, purchased the drugstore of Casper Schoeff, continuing in partnership until 1875, when Henry Dreier died. Several years later Mr. Dreier purchased the Hugh B. Reed pharmacy at the corner of Calhoun and Columbia streets, where he built up one of the largest and best paying drugstores in northern Indiana.
Mr. Dreier was a member of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, the C. K. of A., Holy Name society, the Fourth degree Knights of Columbus and the Fort Wayne lodge of Elks. The decedent was united in marriage to Miss Mary Corcoran. One daughter, Miss Genevieve, preceded the father in death.
Surviving relatives include the following children: Mrs. Edward T. Gilmartin, Mrs. Walter G. Hamilton, wife of Lieutenant Walter G. Hamilton, of the Sixty-ninth Engineers; Miss Frances Dreier, of this city, and five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 8:30 o’clock at the home and at 9 o’clock at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Interment will take place in the Catholic cemetery. Friends kindly are asked to omit flowers.
Fort Wayne News Sentinel
Sept. 9, 1918
Obituary:
Following an illness with which he became afflicted a year ago, William H. Dreier, aged 76 years, one of Fort Wayne’s pioneer druggists, a veteran of the civil war and for many years one of the city’s most successful business men, is dead at his home, 630 West Berry street. Death, which occurred at 6:30 o’clock Saturday evening, came without a struggle.
Mr. Dreier was born in Madison, Ind. , being the only surviving member of a family of four children. He received his education in the Catholic parochial schools and the St. Mary’s college at Lebanon, Ky. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in the union army and as a corporal participated in Morgan’s famous raid. Following his honorable discharge from the army, Mr. Dreier came to Fort Wayne and together with his brother, Henry Dreier, who was wounded in the civil war while serving as an army prescriptionist, purchased the drugstore of Casper Schoeff, continuing in partnership until 1875, when Henry Dreier died. Several years later Mr. Dreier purchased the Hugh B. Reed pharmacy at the corner of Calhoun and Columbia streets, where he built up one of the largest and best paying drugstores in northern Indiana.
Mr. Dreier was a member of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, the C. K. of A., Holy Name society, the Fourth degree Knights of Columbus and the Fort Wayne lodge of Elks. The decedent was united in marriage to Miss Mary Corcoran. One daughter, Miss Genevieve, preceded the father in death.
Surviving relatives include the following children: Mrs. Edward T. Gilmartin, Mrs. Walter G. Hamilton, wife of Lieutenant Walter G. Hamilton, of the Sixty-ninth Engineers; Miss Frances Dreier, of this city, and five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 8:30 o’clock at the home and at 9 o’clock at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Interment will take place in the Catholic cemetery. Friends kindly are asked to omit flowers.
Fort Wayne News Sentinel
Sept. 9, 1918
Following an illness with which he became afflicted a year ago, William H. Dreier, aged 76 years, one of Fort Wayne’s pioneer druggists, a veteran of the civil war and for many years one of the city’s most successful business men, is dead at his home, 630 West Berry street. Death, which occurred at 6:30 o’clock Saturday evening, came without a struggle.
Mr. Dreier was born in Madison, Ind. , being the only surviving member of a family of four children. He received his education in the Catholic parochial schools and the St. Mary’s college at Lebanon, Ky. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in the union army and as a corporal participated in Morgan’s famous raid. Following his honorable discharge from the army, Mr. Dreier came to Fort Wayne and together with his brother, Henry Dreier, who was wounded in the civil war while serving as an army prescriptionist, purchased the drugstore of Casper Schoeff, continuing in partnership until 1875, when Henry Dreier died. Several years later Mr. Dreier purchased the Hugh B. Reed pharmacy at the corner of Calhoun and Columbia streets, where he built up one of the largest and best paying drugstores in northern Indiana.
Mr. Dreier was a member of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, the C. K. of A., Holy Name society, the Fourth degree Knights of Columbus and the Fort Wayne lodge of Elks. The decedent was united in marriage to Miss Mary Corcoran. One daughter, Miss Genevieve, preceded the father in death.
Surviving relatives include the following children: Mrs. Edward T. Gilmartin, Mrs. Walter G. Hamilton, wife of Lieutenant Walter G. Hamilton, of the Sixty-ninth Engineers; Miss Frances Dreier, of this city, and five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 8:30 o’clock at the home and at 9 o’clock at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Interment will take place in the Catholic cemetery. Friends kindly are asked to omit flowers.
Fort Wayne News Sentinel
Sept. 9, 1918
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