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The Fromm Brothers Fur and Ginseng Farm is a farm complex in the Town of Hamburg, Marathon County, Wisconsin where four brothers pioneered ginseng farming starting in 1904, and used the profits to develop silver fox farming. By 1929 they were the world's largest producer of both products.
The Fromm Fur Farm. The land that became the Fromm Fur Farm was first settled by Joachim Nieman, a forester who came to Wisconsin as part of the mass immigration from Germany after 1848. He gave his daughter Alwina a quarter section of undeveloped wilderness near present-day Hamburg, Wisconsin, when she married Fredrick Fromm.
The Fromm Brothers Fur and Ginseng Farm is a farm complex in the Town of Hamburg, Marathon County, Wisconsin where four brothers pioneered ginseng farming starting in 1904, and used the profits to develop silver fox farming. By 1929 they were the world's largest producer of both products.
SUMMARY. Fromm Brothers Fur and Ginseng Farm 436 County Highway F, Hamburg Township, Marathon County Date of Significance 1904-1964. In 1901 thirteen year old Walter Fromm read aloud from a copy of the magazine “Hunter Trapper” to his brothers John, Edward and Henry. The story was about a silver fox pelt that just sold in London for $1,200.
1904. The four Fromm brothers (Walter age 16, Edward 14, John 12, and Henry 10) form what they simply call “The Company”, while sitting on the porch of their family’s farm house in the small town of Hamburg, Wisconsin. “The Company’s” mission was to pursue their dream of producing the finest, most beautiful silver foxes in the world, in addition to cultivating and harvesting the ...
Wisconsin 101. The Fromm Brand and the Hamburg Fur Auction. Probably the biggest reason for the success of the Fromm Brothers’ fur farm was the particular color of fur that they bred.
13 Σεπ 2017 · The barn marks the entrance to the Fromm farm in Hamburg. Laura Schulte/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. The boarding house was home to workers on the Fromm farm, and where meals were...
