Robert Nunnemacher

Robert Nunnemacher (April 7, 1854 – March 8, 1912) is best known for the system of drum malting he developed. It involved a rotating drum and humidified air between a central duct, and other periphery ducts to condition germinating grain.

He was president and secretary of the Kraus Merkel Malting company of Milwaukee, and then went on to be founder and president of Galland Henning Pneumatic Malting Drum Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Which is now known as Galland Henning Nopak). The named stemmed from Mr. Nunnemacher's obtainal of American manufacturing rights to equipment that originated from Nicholas Galland, a Frenchman, and a German named Julius Galland.[1]

He was a member of the board of directors for First National Bank, the Milwaukee Mechanic's Insurance Company, the Prospect Hill Land Company, and board of trustees of Milwaukee Public Museum.[2] He was also affiliated with the Merchants Exchange Bank and the American Malting Company in the 1890s.[3]

Mining

Nunnemacher purchased Milwaukee and Superior Mining Company at sheriff sale which was located in the Gogebic Range.[4]

Director of Twin Buttes Mining and Smelting[5] located in Twin Buttes, Arizona.

Residences of historical and architectural significance

His Milwaukee, Wisconsin residence at 2409 N. Wahl Avenue, Milwaukee, 1906. Symmetrical Jacobethan style, brick with stone quoins was designed by Alexander C. Eschweiler and was added to the NRHP in 2000.[6]

The Nunnemacher Summer Clubhouse was in Pauline's Woods on Pine Lake, which is in Chenequa, Wisconsin.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "The Milwaukee Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
  2. ↑ Brewers Journal. Gibson Publishing Company. 1912. p. 131.
  3. ↑ Brewers Journal. Gibson Publishing Company. 1912.
  4. ↑ American Institute of Mining Engineers (1889). Engineering and Mining Journal 48. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. p. 300. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
  5. ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=Rzc5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA993&lpg=PA993&dq=%27%22robert+nunnemacher%22+mining&source=bl&ots=EZN8D0qaM5&sig=31UNmoWKCtvWjR1zivxWUoNsfPw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xxm6U6jpBYr58AGfmIGYAw&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q='%22robert%20nunnemacher%22%20mining&f=false
  6. ↑ "Robert Nunnemacher Residence, 2409 North Wahl Avenue, Milwaukee, photographed by David Hay Jones". livemilwaukee.org. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
  7. ↑ "The Milwaukee Journal - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
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