Henry Krause (b. 1820, Prussia; d. 1893) ran the first tannery in Ann Arbor and was a dealer in boots and shoes. Krause settled in Ann Arbor in 1845 and built his large tannery in 1868.
Krause Street in Ann Arbor is named after him.
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- Henry Krause's Tannery, Grace Shackman, Ann Arbor Observer, September 1994
In the late nineteenth century, Henry Krause was one of the city’s biggest taxpayers. The leather-making factory he built on Second Street stood into the 21st century and his name lives on in Krause Street nearby. But his real claim to fame is that his Ann Arbor tannery was the forerunner of Hush Puppies shoes.
