John P. Rank

John P. Rank

• Father: Johann Philipp Rank b. 6 May 1829, d. 6 June 1901
• Mother: Anna Maria Gluck b. circa 1835, d. between 1895 and 1900

• John P. Rank was born in March 1861 in Minnesota.
• Johann Philipp Rank and Anna Maria Gluck appeared in the Minnesota state census of 1 June 1865 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Other members of the household included John P. Rank, Edward Rank, Louisa Rank and Katie Rank. Apparently there was an earlier child named Lewiss born before the 1865 census, and died before the birth of son Louis about 1867.
• 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 John P. Rank, Edward Rank, Henry J. 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, Minnesota. Other members of the household included John P. Rank, Louisa Rank, Katie Rank, Henry J. Rank, Louis Rank, Mary Anna Rank, Frederick W. Rank and Otto Rank.
• He was a clerk in his father's liquor store, according to the 1880 census.
• John P. Rank and Samuel Rank Ernst appeared in the 1888 Minneapolis, Minnesota, City Directory at 501 4th Avenue NE listed as Rank & Ernst (John Rank Jr and Samuel Ernst), grocers..
• He married Martha Moritz on 22 March 1888 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Johann Philipp Rank and Anna Maria Gluck appeared in the Minnesota state census of 1 June 1895 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, at 92 Nicollet Street. Other members of the household included John P. Rank, Martha Moritz, Louis Rank and Otto Rank.
• John P. Rank died on 26 August 1938 at age 77 in Minneapolis, 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: 23 Oct 2014