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Alfred Merkau 1906 - 1964

Alfred Karl Merkau was born on June 16, 1906 in Berlin Germany, and died at age 58 years old in November 1964 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alfred Merkau.

Alfred Karl Merkau
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June 16, 1906
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    Alfred Karl Merkau was born to Karl Markau (born 1882) and Emmy Haynes (born 1888). Both of his parents were born in Germany. He had four siblings: Bernard, Melenie, Kurt, and Mario Merkau. Alfred Merkau married Gertrud Louise Wilhelmine Schmoldt (1915 - 1996) and they had three children.
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    On his World War II draft card, Alfred was described as being 6 feet 1 inch tall and as weighing 210 pounds. He had blue eyes, brown hair, and a "light" complexion.
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In 1906, in the year that Alfred Merkau was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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In 1924, Alfred was 18 years old when Macy's department store in New York held its first "Thanksgiving parade" on November 27th at 9a - during church services but leaving plenty of time to attend the big football game between Syracuse and Columbia universities. The parade was held as a way to promote the opening of the “World’s Largest Store” and its 1 million square feet of retail space in Manhattan’s Herald Square. The parade was 6 miles long and included floats, Macy's employees dressed as clowns, cowboys, and sword-wielding knights, and animals from Central Park Zoo. Santa Claus, of course, brought up the rear - opening the Christmas shopping season for Macy's.
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