John Appel

John Appel

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John APPEL has long conducted a representative merchant-tailoring business in the city of Muskegon, where he has maintained his home more than forty years and where he has an inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem, as well as rank as one of the veteran business men of the community. Mr. APPEL received his youthful education in the schools of his native Sweden, where he was born in the year 1860, a son of Peter and Kisea APPEL, who passed their entire lives in Sweden. In his native land John APPEL served a thorough apprenticeship to the trade of tailor, and he was twenty-one years of age when, in 1881, he came to the United States and established his residence in Muskegon. Here his brother Charles, whose death occurred in 1904, eventually became one of the organizers of the Tower Clothing Company, a leading mercantile concern that still continues in business on West Western Avenue. In the tailoring business in Muskegon, John APPEL was first associated with Mr. HESS, but for fully thirty years he has here been engaged independently in the merchant tailoring business, in which he has received a representative supporting patronage, indicative of the appreciation of his technical skill at his trade and the excellence of the service that has been given by his establishment. During a period of eighteen years he maintained his headquarters in the old Muskegon National Bank Building and he now has well equipped quarters in the Lyman Building on Western Avenue. Mr. APPEL has ever stood exponent of loyal and appreciative American citizenship and is a staunch supporter of the cause of the Republican Party. He and his wife are earnest communicants of the Swedish Lutheran Mission Church in Muskegon. In 1881, the year of his arrival in Muskegon, Mr. APPEL was here united in marriage to Miss Emma ANDERSON, and of this gracious union have been born ten children, all of whom are living, namely: William, Anna, Oscar, Mabel, Hattie, Emanuel, Howard, Robert, Ralph and Margaret. William is now a resident of Hartford, Connecticut; Anna resides in the city of Chicago; and Oscar is associated with his father in business.

Source: “Historic Michigan”, George N. Fuller/ James L. Smith. (1925); Vol. III, pp. 112-113