F. O. ROSSBACHER, manufacturer and dealer in furniture, etc., is a son of Oscar Rossbacher, who emigrated from Germany to the United States, and after a few years' residence at Fort Wayne, came to Kendallville in 1857, and embarked in the manufacture of furniture and cabinet work. He established a good business, and was connected with this branch of industry until his death, in 1879. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, and a respected citizen. The subject of this sketch succeeded to the business of his father, and is carrying a complete line of furniture. The cabinet department is presided over by Gustave Sprandel, who came to Kendallville in 1863, and learned his trade of the elder Rossbacher, since which he has been nearly all of the time employed by that house.
Counties of La Grange and Noble, Indiana, Historical and Biographical, Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, © 1882, Part 2, p. 313-314.
Transcribed by Denise Wells, June 2013.