Title	Frederick Fahnley
Owning Institution	Indiana Historical Society
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Item ID	P0019_OVA1_FOLDER1_FREDERICK_FAHNLEY
Description	Frederick Fahnley was a German immigrant and milliner. Mr. Fahnley was president of the Fahnley & McCrea Millinery Company and was a leader in the wholesale millinery trade in Indianapolis for nearly half a century. Fahnley was a native of Wurttemberg, Germany, born in 1839; he immigrated to America in 1854 when he was 15 years old. He worked several years in Ohio and began an independent business career in 1860 with the opening of a general store. In 1865 he moved to Indianapolis and organized the wholesale millinery firm of Stiles, Fahnley & McCrea. Mr. Stiles retired from the firm and by 1875 Fahnley & McCrea erected the finest building at that time in the wholesale district at 240–242 South Meridian Street. After a disastrous fire in February, 1905 the firm rebuilt a five-story brick structure on the same site. An image of the new store can be seen in the Bass Photo Company Collection Digital Image Collections (Bass #36202). Mr. Fahnley never ran for political office but was a director of the Merchants’ National Bank and the Indiana Trust Company, a member of the Board of Trade and the Commercial Club, and one of the organizers of the Columbia Club. He was an active member of the German House and the Indianapolis Maennerchor Society. Mr. Fahnley married Miss Lena Soehner, a native of Baden, Germany.
Subject	German American families--Indiana--Indianapolis German Americans Germans--Indiana Portrait photographs Businessmen
Creator	Marceau & Power Studio, Indianapolis
Date	Circa 1897
Time Period	1890s (1890-1899)
Geographic Location	Indiana--Indianapolis
Digital Collection Name	Assorted Images from IHS Collections
Digital Collection Number	V0002
Format of Original	Photographic print, b&w
Digital Format	JP2000
Resolution	600 ppi
Type	Image
Copyright Notice	Digital Image 2012 Indiana Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
CONTENTdm number	2902
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