Jacob Jung
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Jung was born January 11, 1857, son of German-born Jacob (originally Jakob) and Eleonore Jung,[1] in the city of Sheboygan. He attended Lutheran parochial schools and Sheboygan High School.
Career
He learned the carriage- and wagonmakers trade, and worked fourteen years at it before buying out his father's business, the Jung Carriage Company, and running it until 1917. In 1882, he married Louise Winter. In 1888 he also went into the mercantile business and founded the J. and W. Jung Company department store, which he ran with two of his sons.