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William Krause (1840–1915)

William Krause was a German-born early Avon Park resident whose work joined public office, household fuel, and the town’s first ice-making venture. The town’s newspaper reported his death on Saturday, 30 January 1915, at age seventy-four. It said he had been born in Germany in 1840, reached Avon Park from New York in 1888, pursued several local enterprises, and was buried in Avon Park Cemetery after a funeral conducted by the Rev. Benjamin Stock.[dsc-1915-02-04]

Settler and deputy sheriff

Krause arrived in Avon Park by 1888 from New York with his family.[dsc-1915-02-04] Leoma Bradshaw Maxwell separately listed Charles Krause as an early German-born settler who assisted surveyor H. H. Penrose, while recording William and his wife among early community members.[maxwell-1976] A September 1905 county-paper report calls him “Deputy Sheriff William Krause” while describing his investigation of illegal game killing near Lake Jackson, a few miles south of Avon Park. The report says he followed fresh wagon tracks, encountered an armed sentry, and concluded that some people involved might use violence to avoid detection.[dsc-1905-09-29]

Business and civic memory

Krause and his son advertised stove wood in the county paper during 1905.[dsc-1905-09-29] That September, the Avon Park column reported that the pair had ordered machinery to complete an ice-making plant and expected local ice production early in October.[dsc-1905-09-08] Maxwell also named William Krause among the sources who supplied the early school-teacher chronology later verified with William King for a 1919 historical sketch read at the brick school’s dedication.[maxwell-1976]

The 1915 obituary describes his surviving family as a wife, five sons, and two daughters, among sixteen children.[dsc-1915-02-04]

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  1. The De Soto County News, Arcadia, Fla., The De Soto County News, 8 September 1905, page 8: Avon Park Locals (1905) · newspaper
  2. The De Soto County News, Arcadia, Fla., The De Soto County News, 29 September 1905, page 18 (1905) · newspaper
  3. S. F. Tucker, department editor, The De Soto County News, Arcadia, Fla., The De Soto County News, 4 February 1915, page 5: Avon Park Department (1915) · newspaper
  4. Leoma Bradshaw Maxwell, The First Hundred Years of Avon Park, Florida (../documents/the-first-hundred-years-of-avon-park_leoma-bradshaw-maxwell_1976.md) (1976) · book

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