Burhorn, E.

BURHORN

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/18/2007 at 19:14:26

Ernest F. G. Burhorn
Dec 27, 1840 - Nov 20, 1886

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.13, Council Bluffs)
E. Burhorn, jeweler, Council Bluffs, was born in Germany in 1840; in 1866, came to the United States, and in 1869 to Council Bluffs. He worked six months for C. B. Jacquimin & Co., and in 1870 commenced business on his own account. He has been successful in his business, which is constantly increasing; he carries a $7,000 stock, and employs an assistant. In 1878, he married Miss Mollie L. Woods, of Council Bluffs, and they have one child - Frank, aged three and a half years.