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Title: Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924 Kemper, General William Harrison, 1839-
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Chicago and New York : The American historical society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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August Wacker was educated in the
German schools of his home town until he
was sixteen. He then began learning by
apprenticeship the florist's trade. With
the equipment supplied by school, home
training and his apprenticeship he came
to the United States in 1870, on the steamer
Union, and from the Atlantic seaboard
came direct to Indianapolis. In this city
he went to work for A. Wiegand, the well
known florist of that time. The Wiegand
greenhouses were then on Kentucky Ave-
nue and South Street. After two years
Mr. Wacker had advanced so far in knowl-
edge of American ways and had made such
good use of his earnings that he was able
to rent seven acres of land on Central
Avenue and Twelfth Street. This land
was then well out on the edge of town but
is now in the heart of the city. Here he
engaged in business as a truck and vege-
table grower for the local market. His
operations for the first year netted him
a considerable revenue, and he then bought
five acres of ground at Emerichville. This
ground too has been since swept within
the rapidly growing City of Indianapolis.
He owned that property only a few months,
when he sold out at a profit of $2,300. Mr.
Wacker has made many larger deals since
then but none of greater importance to his
personal fortune, since the sale gave him
the capital sufficient to begin his opera-
tions as a real estate man and he has con-
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August Wacker

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