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National Cooperage and Woodenware Company of Peoria, one of the largest enterprises of its kind in the country. Greenhut and his business partners started the Great Western Distillery in Peoria, which was the largest in the world at that time. Greenhut's home was on the corner of Moss Avenue and Sheridan Road.
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Central Railway Company (later known as the Peoria Railroad Company), the Commercial German-American National Bank, the Merchants National Bank, and the National Bank of the Republic of Chicago. He was also
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opened a new store called
Greenhut & Co. Siegel-Cooper and Greenhut were consolidated under the former name in 1910, and in 1914 the failure of Henry Siegel led the firm to be renamed the J. B. Greenhut Company. It failed in 1915, although it was reorganized and continued to do business until
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and storming the fort shortly before its surrender, he was badly wounded in the right arm and retired from the 12th shortly afterwards. In August 1862, he was appointed captain of
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March 1918, when it was decided to liquidate and discontinue the business. He remained president of the company until March 1917, when he retired.
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