Vonnegut Hardware Company

Vonnegut Hardware Store
Hardware Store
Founded 1850
Founder Charles Vollmer and Clemens Vonnegut Sr.
Headquarters Indianapolis, USA
Area served
Indiana and the American West
Clemens Vonnegut Sr., photographed c.1885

Clemens Vonnegut, Sr., a German former textile salesman in Amsterdam, arrived in Indianapolis in 1850 and entered into a partnership with fellow German Charles Vollmer shortly thereafter. Their merchandising store was called Vollmer & Vonnegut. Vollmer left to go out West in 1852 but was never heard from again.[1] In 1858, Vonnegut bought the merchandise store he and his business partner Charles Volmer had run for several years. In 1898 Vonnegut, Sr. moved the business to 120 and 124 East Washington Street. Vonnegut, Sr. would remain president of the company until his death in 1906. In 1908 the store was incorporated as the Vonnegut Hardware Company. His business was located in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana and would remain a fixture for over 100 years.

Over time his sons had various interests in the company; some long-term and some only briefly.

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Notes
  1. Carl Runyon Clemens Vonnegut Sr.
  2. Genealogy, www.rootsweb.com
  3. John G. Rauch, "An Account of the Ancestry of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., by an Ancient Friend of His Family", in Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: an Autobiographical Collage (1981).
  4. Genealogy, www.rootsweb.com
  5. Genealogy, www.rootsweb.com

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