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pioneer in footwear dates back more than a
century.
FOOTNOTES IN HISTORY
As President Miner explains, the company
all started with a German immigrant named
Albert Weinbrenner. His father was a cob-
bler who toiled in the repair of shoes and
boots; working from the confines of a small
shop which he established in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. At the age of 13, the father con-
sented to take Albert on as an apprentice. It
would take another 14 years, but by age 27
Albert opened his own business by partner-
ing with Joseph Pfeifer, their cobblery be-
came known as Weinbrenner and Pfeifer.
The two spent the next eight years pri-
marily repairing the outsoles of shoes, but in
1900, they purchased the Knoll Shoe Com-
pany for all of $1500, a move that once and
for all provided means to begin manufac-
turing their own footwear. The new enter-
prise was named the Albert H. Weinbrenner
Company. In those early years, the company
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