Gustavus Holzhauer
From the Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky, published by the John M Gresman Company, Chicago-Philadelphia 1896,
page 20
GUSTAVUS HOLZHAUER, deceased, a popular druggist and highly
educated gentleman of Newport, was born in Württemberg, Germany, August 2, 1847.
He was educated in the city of Stuttgart, where he studied the Latin, French and
English languages. After leaving school he served an apprenticeship of
three and a half years in a drug store and was employed as a clerk in the store
for six months.
In July 1866, when nineteen years of age, he came to America, locating in Madison, Indiana, where he was employed as a drug clerk for two years, when he removed to Newport and was similarly engaged until 1870, when he embarked in the drug business for more than twenty-five years until his death, November 22, 1895, since which time the business has been conducted by his son, Louis P Holzhauer.
Besides having the leading establishment of the kind in the city, Mr. Holzhauer was financially interested in a number of other enterprises. He was a stockholder and director in the Newport National Bank, of which he was one of the organizers; a director in the Covington Mutual Fire Insurance Company; a member of the Board of School Trustees, representing the Fifth Ward; president of the Lincoln League Club; and was quite prominent in local Republican politics.
He was frequently urged by influential citizens, without regard to party politics, to become a candidate for office, particularly for the Mayoralty of Newport; but he had no personal ambition for office, being interested in politics from a conviction of duty and with a view to securing the best men for offices of trust. There was none of the selfish nature in his political work which characterizes the latter day politicians.
Mr. Holzhauer was a member of St Paul's Lutheran Church and a member of the Newport Lodge and Newport Commandery of Free and Accepted Masons, in both of which he was a useful and influential worker and a liberal helper of others.
Mr. Holzhauer was married in 1872 to Amelia Kauther of Cincinnati, Ohio. He had one son and three daughters: Louis P Holzhazer, who until his father's death, was in charge of Ingram & Company's Chemical Laboratory, Detroit Michigan. The daughters are Edna, Irma and Clara. Mr. Holzhauer's father was a flour miller in Germany and was in comfortable circumstances. He and his wife died in Württemberg.