Henry J. Rank

b. circa 1865, d. 20 October 1890
  • Henry J. Rank was born circa 1865 in Minnesota.
  • Johann Philipp Rank and Anna Maria Gluck, appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Saint Anthony, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Other members of the household included Henry J. Rank, Edward Rank, John P. Rank, Louis Rank, Louisa Rank, Katie Rank and Mary Anna Rank. Also in the household was one female domestic servant.
  • Johann Philipp Rank and Anna Maria Gluck appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Other members of the household included Henry J. Rank, John P. Rank, Louisa Rank, Katie Rank, Louis Rank, Mary Anna Rank, Frederick W. Rank and Otto Rank.
  • Johann Philipp Rank and Anna Maria Gluck appeared in the Minnesota state census of 1 May 1885 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Other members of the household included Henry J. Rank, Louisa Rank, Katie Rank, Louis Rank, Mary Anna Rank, Frederick W. Rank and Otto Rank.
  • Henry J. Rank appeared in the 1888 Minneapolis, Minnesota, City Directory at 92 Nicollet Street listed as a clerk at his father's wine and liquor establishment at 3 North 1st..
  • Henry J. Rank died on 20 October 1890.
  • He was interred at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota.
  • John P. Rank, a native of Germany, was born in 1829. He came to the United States in 1843, and remained eleven years with his parents on a farm in Canada. In 1854, he came to Minneapolis and worked in the woods one winter, the year following engaged in the grocery business. In 1863, he bought a building in which he kept saloon until it burned in 1868. He erected a new building on that site, and in 1874 again opened a saloon where he now is. He married Miss Mary Gluck in 1859, Edward, John, Louisa, Kate, Henry, Louis, Anna, Frederick and Otto, are the children.
         -- from History of Hennepin County and The City of Minneapolis, published 1881.
  • Last Edited: 31 May 2012