HEADSTONE with Esther A. Says MI Sgt Co B 323 Field Sig Bn WW1.
FRAMES FOR THE FUTURE Iron River Area Michigan 1981 centennial book "Businesses: Jewelry Stores: Tegge Jewelry Store" page 305
A.H. Tegge bought out the business for which he had been working at 110 West Genesee Street. He came to work for the Jacobs Brothers in 1916, then served in World War I. He purchased the store in 1917, leaving his sister Laura to manage it on his absence. He closed the business in 1950. He died in 1963.
NEWS ARTICLE Iron River Reporter March 25 1930 "Meet Today: A.H. Tegge” with photo (at right)
Starting life with his star attached to the professional baseball world, Albert H. Tegge, prominent Iron River jeweler and music store proprietor and member of the city commission, was far on the road to his early ambitions when fate took a hand and laid him up six months with a leg and foot injury, resulting from a spill during a motorcycle ride.
Starting anew, Mr. Tegge applied for a vacancy in the Jacobs Jewelry store in Iron River as engraver and watch repairer, and within a year had purchased the store from Mr. Jacobs and entered upon a successful business career in the city which has occupied the major attention of his time since.
Sports of one sort and another have been Mr. Tegge’s avocation, and when he was not in training for or playing basketball and baseball, he was flipping a fly on trout streams or trailing game in the woods. The passing years have taken toll of his athletic prowess, but his love of the outdoors has never ebbed.
BORN IN TWO RIVERS Mr. Tegge was born in Two Rivers, Wis. on Jan. 29, 1891, and lived there until 18 years old. His advent into the jewelry business was the result of a position in his early youth in an aluminum manufacturing plant in Two Rivers, where he was occupied as an engraver in the souvenir branch of the company. Having an aptitude for the work, he undertook to develop his talents by attending the Wisconsin Institute of Horology in Milwaukee, and graduated as a full fledged engraver and watchmaker. The next five years were spent in Milwaukee, where he gave vent to his athletic ability by playing on the city basketball and industrial baseball teams. He captained the championship city team one year and as a member of the Sisson-Sewell Clothing store entry in the city baseball league, played with Happy Felch, later a member of the ill-fated Chicago Black Sox, Freddie Mollwitz, and Wally Bowman, all stars of later years.
The most momentous turn in his life came when he made a motorcycle trip from Milwaukee to his home in Two Rivers. Enroute he figured in a spill and sustained a leg and foot injury which ruined his hopes of major league baseball participation. Likewise six months enforced vacation during convalescence detached him from his Milwaukee associations and he applied for an opening in the Jacobs jewelry store in Iron River, and being accepted, arrived here on June 10, 1916.
BUYS BUSINESS Almost immediately he became prominently identified with athletics, and was a member of the widely known Jacobs Jewelers city basketball team, upper peninsula champions, and of the Nasser city baseball team. Later he organized and captained Tegge’s Victors, another strong cage team.
A year after his arrival here, Mr. Jacobs desired to retire from business and Mr. Tegge purchased his interests in March 1917. The world war interfered with his business plans and he enlisted in the army in September, 1917. He remained only a month, however, for his foot disability led army officers to discharge him. In March, 1918 he enlisted again and this time was accepted and attached to the field glass division at Harrison Tech, Chicago. He remained there a month or so and was transferred to Fort Wood, New York, where he was made a sergeant and placed in charge of drilling recruits. On August 23 he sailed for France and was attached to the 323 Signal battalion.
During his absence from Iron River the store management was ably taken over by his sister, Miss Laura Tegge, and he returned to pursue the business he so abruptly left.
In 1920 he purchased the building from Zigmund Zuskowski, and five years later doubled the store capacity by an addition to the structure.
In 1925 he was married to Miss Esther Scheurle, then domestic science teacher in the Iron River schools.
Aside from business and athletic activities, Mr. Tegge has been prominently identified with social and political enterprises. He served as commander of the Alfred Branchini post in 1925 and filled the office of councilman for three years during the village regime. He was elected a member of the city commission in 1927 and will end a three year term this year. He is a member of the Iron River Lions club and for a time was president of the Izaak Walton league.
NEWS ARTICLE Iron River Reporter May 3 1927 "Crowds Attracted By Tegge Display"
A most unique window display of fishing tackle is attracting crowds in the Tegge music and jewelry store. Mr. Tegge has arranged a woodland scene fringed with pines and moss. A cottage rests on a stone in a large lake in which fifteen brook trout, one of them 16 inches long, splash among the rocks and rest in the shadows. Mr. Tegge caught the trout on the opening day and kept them alive in a bucket of water. The water in the miniature lake is kept fresh by a stream of water.
NEWS ARTICLE Iron River Reporter Oct 13 1925 "Iron River Legion Honors Joe Funkey: Active Legion Member Placed In Executive Chair At Annual Election" (excerpt)
Members of the Alfred Branchini Post of Iron River honored Joe Funkey, one of its most active members, by electing him to its highest office last night. He succeeds A.H. Tegge as post commander.
FRAMES FOR THE FUTURE Iron River Area Michigan 1981 centennial book "Businesses: Jewelry Stores: Tegge Jewelry Store" page 305
A.H. Tegge bought out the business for which he had been working at 110 West Genesee Street. He came to work for the Jacobs Brothers in 1916, then served in World War I. He purchased the store in 1917, leaving his sister Laura to manage it on his absence. He closed the business in 1950. He died in 1963.
NEWS ARTICLE Iron River Reporter March 25 1930 "Meet Today: A.H. Tegge” with photo (at right)
Starting life with his star attached to the professional baseball world, Albert H. Tegge, prominent Iron River jeweler and music store proprietor and member of the city commission, was far on the road to his early ambitions when fate took a hand and laid him up six months with a leg and foot injury, resulting from a spill during a motorcycle ride.
Starting anew, Mr. Tegge applied for a vacancy in the Jacobs Jewelry store in Iron River as engraver and watch repairer, and within a year had purchased the store from Mr. Jacobs and entered upon a successful business career in the city which has occupied the major attention of his time since.
Sports of one sort and another have been Mr. Tegge’s avocation, and when he was not in training for or playing basketball and baseball, he was flipping a fly on trout streams or trailing game in the woods. The passing years have taken toll of his athletic prowess, but his love of the outdoors has never ebbed.
BORN IN TWO RIVERS Mr. Tegge was born in Two Rivers, Wis. on Jan. 29, 1891, and lived there until 18 years old. His advent into the jewelry business was the result of a position in his early youth in an aluminum manufacturing plant in Two Rivers, where he was occupied as an engraver in the souvenir branch of the company. Having an aptitude for the work, he undertook to develop his talents by attending the Wisconsin Institute of Horology in Milwaukee, and graduated as a full fledged engraver and watchmaker. The next five years were spent in Milwaukee, where he gave vent to his athletic ability by playing on the city basketball and industrial baseball teams. He captained the championship city team one year and as a member of the Sisson-Sewell Clothing store entry in the city baseball league, played with Happy Felch, later a member of the ill-fated Chicago Black Sox, Freddie Mollwitz, and Wally Bowman, all stars of later years.
The most momentous turn in his life came when he made a motorcycle trip from Milwaukee to his home in Two Rivers. Enroute he figured in a spill and sustained a leg and foot injury which ruined his hopes of major league baseball participation. Likewise six months enforced vacation during convalescence detached him from his Milwaukee associations and he applied for an opening in the Jacobs jewelry store in Iron River, and being accepted, arrived here on June 10, 1916.
BUYS BUSINESS Almost immediately he became prominently identified with athletics, and was a member of the widely known Jacobs Jewelers city basketball team, upper peninsula champions, and of the Nasser city baseball team. Later he organized and captained Tegge’s Victors, another strong cage team.
A year after his arrival here, Mr. Jacobs desired to retire from business and Mr. Tegge purchased his interests in March 1917. The world war interfered with his business plans and he enlisted in the army in September, 1917. He remained only a month, however, for his foot disability led army officers to discharge him. In March, 1918 he enlisted again and this time was accepted and attached to the field glass division at Harrison Tech, Chicago. He remained there a month or so and was transferred to Fort Wood, New York, where he was made a sergeant and placed in charge of drilling recruits. On August 23 he sailed for France and was attached to the 323 Signal battalion.
During his absence from Iron River the store management was ably taken over by his sister, Miss Laura Tegge, and he returned to pursue the business he so abruptly left.
In 1920 he purchased the building from Zigmund Zuskowski, and five years later doubled the store capacity by an addition to the structure.
In 1925 he was married to Miss Esther Scheurle, then domestic science teacher in the Iron River schools.
Aside from business and athletic activities, Mr. Tegge has been prominently identified with social and political enterprises. He served as commander of the Alfred Branchini post in 1925 and filled the office of councilman for three years during the village regime. He was elected a member of the city commission in 1927 and will end a three year term this year. He is a member of the Iron River Lions club and for a time was president of the Izaak Walton league.
NEWS ARTICLE Iron River Reporter May 3 1927 "Crowds Attracted By Tegge Display"
A most unique window display of fishing tackle is attracting crowds in the Tegge music and jewelry store. Mr. Tegge has arranged a woodland scene fringed with pines and moss. A cottage rests on a stone in a large lake in which fifteen brook trout, one of them 16 inches long, splash among the rocks and rest in the shadows. Mr. Tegge caught the trout on the opening day and kept them alive in a bucket of water. The water in the miniature lake is kept fresh by a stream of water.
NEWS ARTICLE Iron River Reporter Oct 13 1925 "Iron River Legion Honors Joe Funkey: Active Legion Member Placed In Executive Chair At Annual Election" (excerpt)
Members of the Alfred Branchini Post of Iron River honored Joe Funkey, one of its most active members, by electing him to its highest office last night. He succeeds A.H. Tegge as post commander.
HEADSTONE with Esther A. Says MI Sgt Co B 323 Field Sig Bn WW1.
FRAMES FOR THE FUTURE Iron River Area Michigan 1981 centennial book "Businesses: Jewelry Stores: Tegge Jewelry Store" page 305
A.H. Tegge bought out the business for which he had been working at 110 West Genesee Street. He came to work for the Jacobs Brothers in 1916, then served in World War I. He purchased the store in 1917, leaving his sister Laura to manage it on his absence. He closed the business in 1950. He died in 1963.
NEWS ARTICLE Iron River Reporter March 25 1930 "Meet Today: A.H. Tegge” with photo (at right)
Starting life with his star attached to the professional baseball world, Albert H. Tegge, prominent Iron River jeweler and music store proprietor and member of the city commission, was far on the road to his early ambitions when fate took a hand and laid him up six months with a leg and foot injury, resulting from a spill during a motorcycle ride.
Starting anew, Mr. Tegge applied for a vacancy in the Jacobs Jewelry store in Iron River as engraver and watch repairer, and within a year had purchased the store from Mr. Jacobs and entered upon a successful business career in the city which has occupied the major attention of his time since.
Sports of one sort and another have been Mr. Tegge’s avocation, and when he was not in training for or playing basketball and baseball, he was flipping a fly on trout streams or trailing game in the woods. The passing years have taken toll of his athletic prowess, but his love of the outdoors has never ebbed.
BORN IN TWO RIVERS Mr. Tegge was born in Two Rivers, Wis. on Jan. 29, 1891, and lived there until 18 years old. His advent into the jewelry business was the result of a position in his early youth in an aluminum manufacturing plant in Two Rivers, where he was occupied as an engraver in the souvenir branch of the company. Having an aptitude for the work, he undertook to develop his talents by attending the Wisconsin Institute of Horology in Milwaukee, and graduated as a full fledged engraver and watchmaker. The next five years were spent in Milwaukee, where he gave vent to his athletic ability by playing on the city basketball and industrial baseball teams. He captained the championship city team one year and as a member of the Sisson-Sewell Clothing store entry in the city baseball league, played with Happy Felch, later a member of the ill-fated Chicago Black Sox, Freddie Mollwitz, and Wally Bowman, all stars of later years.
The most momentous turn in his life came when he made a motorcycle trip from Milwaukee to his home in Two Rivers. Enroute he figured in a spill and sustained a leg and foot injury which ruined his hopes of major league baseball participation. Likewise six months enforced vacation during convalescence detached him from his Milwaukee associations and he applied for an opening in the Jacobs jewelry store in Iron River, and being accepted, arrived here on June 10, 1916.
BUYS BUSINESS Almost immediately he became prominently identified with athletics, and was a member of the widely known Jacobs Jewelers city basketball team, upper peninsula champions, and of the Nasser city baseball team. Later he organized and captained Tegge’s Victors, another strong cage team.
A year after his arrival here, Mr. Jacobs desired to retire from business and Mr. Tegge purchased his interests in March 1917. The world war interfered with his business plans and he enlisted in the army in September, 1917. He remained only a month, however, for his foot disability led army officers to discharge him. In March, 1918 he enlisted again and this time was accepted and attached to the field glass division at Harrison Tech, Chicago. He remained there a month or so and was transferred to Fort Wood, New York, where he was made a sergeant and placed in charge of drilling recruits. On August 23 he sailed for France and was attached to the 323 Signal battalion.
During his absence from Iron River the store management was ably taken over by his sister, Miss Laura Tegge, and he returned to pursue the business he so abruptly left.
In 1920 he purchased the building from Zigmund Zuskowski, and five years later doubled the store capacity by an addition to the structure.
In 1925 he was married to Miss Esther Scheurle, then domestic science teacher in the Iron River schools.
Aside from business and athletic activities, Mr. Tegge has been prominently identified with social and political enterprises. He served as commander of the Alfred Branchini post in 1925 and filled the office of councilman for three years during the village regime. He was elected a member of the city commission in 1927 and will end a three year term this year. He is a member of the Iron River Lions club and for a time was president of the Izaak Walton league.
NEWS ARTICLE Iron River Reporter May 3 1927 "Crowds Attracted By Tegge Display"
A most unique window display of fishing tackle is attracting crowds in the Tegge music and jewelry store. Mr. Tegge has arranged a woodland scene fringed with pines and moss. A cottage rests on a stone in a large lake in which fifteen brook trout, one of them 16 inches long, splash among the rocks and rest in the shadows. Mr. Tegge caught the trout on the opening day and kept them alive in a bucket of water. The water in the miniature lake is kept fresh by a stream of water.
NEWS ARTICLE Iron River Reporter Oct 13 1925 "Iron River Legion Honors Joe Funkey: Active Legion Member Placed In Executive Chair At Annual Election" (excerpt)
Members of the Alfred Branchini Post of Iron River honored Joe Funkey, one of its most active members, by electing him to its highest office last night. He succeeds A.H. Tegge as post commander.
FRAMES FOR THE FUTURE Iron River Area Michigan 1981 centennial book "Businesses: Jewelry Stores: Tegge Jewelry Store" page 305
A.H. Tegge bought out the business for which he had been working at 110 West Genesee Street. He came to work for the Jacobs Brothers in 1916, then served in World War I. He purchased the store in 1917, leaving his sister Laura to manage it on his absence. He closed the business in 1950. He died in 1963.
NEWS ARTICLE Iron River Reporter March 25 1930 "Meet Today: A.H. Tegge” with photo (at right)
Starting life with his star attached to the professional baseball world, Albert H. Tegge, prominent Iron River jeweler and music store proprietor and member of the city commission, was far on the road to his early ambitions when fate took a hand and laid him up six months with a leg and foot injury, resulting from a spill during a motorcycle ride.
Starting anew, Mr. Tegge applied for a vacancy in the Jacobs Jewelry store in Iron River as engraver and watch repairer, and within a year had purchased the store from Mr. Jacobs and entered upon a successful business career in the city which has occupied the major attention of his time since.
Sports of one sort and another have been Mr. Tegge’s avocation, and when he was not in training for or playing basketball and baseball, he was flipping a fly on trout streams or trailing game in the woods. The passing years have taken toll of his athletic prowess, but his love of the outdoors has never ebbed.
BORN IN TWO RIVERS Mr. Tegge was born in Two Rivers, Wis. on Jan. 29, 1891, and lived there until 18 years old. His advent into the jewelry business was the result of a position in his early youth in an aluminum manufacturing plant in Two Rivers, where he was occupied as an engraver in the souvenir branch of the company. Having an aptitude for the work, he undertook to develop his talents by attending the Wisconsin Institute of Horology in Milwaukee, and graduated as a full fledged engraver and watchmaker. The next five years were spent in Milwaukee, where he gave vent to his athletic ability by playing on the city basketball and industrial baseball teams. He captained the championship city team one year and as a member of the Sisson-Sewell Clothing store entry in the city baseball league, played with Happy Felch, later a member of the ill-fated Chicago Black Sox, Freddie Mollwitz, and Wally Bowman, all stars of later years.
The most momentous turn in his life came when he made a motorcycle trip from Milwaukee to his home in Two Rivers. Enroute he figured in a spill and sustained a leg and foot injury which ruined his hopes of major league baseball participation. Likewise six months enforced vacation during convalescence detached him from his Milwaukee associations and he applied for an opening in the Jacobs jewelry store in Iron River, and being accepted, arrived here on June 10, 1916.
BUYS BUSINESS Almost immediately he became prominently identified with athletics, and was a member of the widely known Jacobs Jewelers city basketball team, upper peninsula champions, and of the Nasser city baseball team. Later he organized and captained Tegge’s Victors, another strong cage team.
A year after his arrival here, Mr. Jacobs desired to retire from business and Mr. Tegge purchased his interests in March 1917. The world war interfered with his business plans and he enlisted in the army in September, 1917. He remained only a month, however, for his foot disability led army officers to discharge him. In March, 1918 he enlisted again and this time was accepted and attached to the field glass division at Harrison Tech, Chicago. He remained there a month or so and was transferred to Fort Wood, New York, where he was made a sergeant and placed in charge of drilling recruits. On August 23 he sailed for France and was attached to the 323 Signal battalion.
During his absence from Iron River the store management was ably taken over by his sister, Miss Laura Tegge, and he returned to pursue the business he so abruptly left.
In 1920 he purchased the building from Zigmund Zuskowski, and five years later doubled the store capacity by an addition to the structure.
In 1925 he was married to Miss Esther Scheurle, then domestic science teacher in the Iron River schools.
Aside from business and athletic activities, Mr. Tegge has been prominently identified with social and political enterprises. He served as commander of the Alfred Branchini post in 1925 and filled the office of councilman for three years during the village regime. He was elected a member of the city commission in 1927 and will end a three year term this year. He is a member of the Iron River Lions club and for a time was president of the Izaak Walton league.
NEWS ARTICLE Iron River Reporter May 3 1927 "Crowds Attracted By Tegge Display"
A most unique window display of fishing tackle is attracting crowds in the Tegge music and jewelry store. Mr. Tegge has arranged a woodland scene fringed with pines and moss. A cottage rests on a stone in a large lake in which fifteen brook trout, one of them 16 inches long, splash among the rocks and rest in the shadows. Mr. Tegge caught the trout on the opening day and kept them alive in a bucket of water. The water in the miniature lake is kept fresh by a stream of water.
NEWS ARTICLE Iron River Reporter Oct 13 1925 "Iron River Legion Honors Joe Funkey: Active Legion Member Placed In Executive Chair At Annual Election" (excerpt)
Members of the Alfred Branchini Post of Iron River honored Joe Funkey, one of its most active members, by electing him to its highest office last night. He succeeds A.H. Tegge as post commander.
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