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HOERR, Peter. (Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, Mar. 13, 1839-Dubuque, IA, Nov. 27, 1930). Vice-president, Wieneke-Hoerr Company. Hoerr came to Dubuque in August 1865, and was employed twenty years in the Beach Soap Factory. He purchased an interest in the Interstate Packing Company in 1889. This was later merged with the Wieneke and Hohenadel Company, a pickle-canning firm, which by 1930 was known as the Brede Company. Hoerr was elected vice president.
HOERR, Peter. (Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, Mar. 13, 1839--Dubuque, IA, Nov. 27, 1930). Hoerr came to Dubuque in August 1865 to visit his brother George who operated a bar. Peter worked for two years in the Rhomberg distillery and then was employed from 1867 to 1889 with [[JAMES BEACH AND SONS]]. He left Dubuque briefly to manufacture soap in Montana.


The company was reorganized as the Interstate Packing Company and, in 1896, the Wieneke-Hoerr Company. Business was carried on throughout the Midwest region.
In 1890 Hoerr purchased an interest in [[WIENEKE AND HOHENADEL]], a pickle-canning firm, which was reorganized several years later as the Interstate Packing Company. Hoerr was elected vice president.
 
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Goodspeed, Weston Arthur, '''History of Dubuque County, Iowa'''. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association, 1911, p. 671


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HOERR, Peter. (Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, Mar. 13, 1839--Dubuque, IA, Nov. 27, 1930). Hoerr came to Dubuque in August 1865 to visit his brother George who operated a bar. Peter worked for two years in the Rhomberg distillery and then was employed from 1867 to 1889 with JAMES BEACH AND SONS. He left Dubuque briefly to manufacture soap in Montana.

In 1890 Hoerr purchased an interest in WIENEKE AND HOHENADEL, a pickle-canning firm, which was reorganized several years later as the Interstate Packing Company. Hoerr was elected vice president.

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Goodspeed, Weston Arthur, History of Dubuque County, Iowa. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association, 1911, p. 671