The Perils of a Family Enterprise

Lakeshore Creamery, Milford, 1903.

Some family businesses thrive and others do not, after all there are a lot of dynamics involved. One very short-lived business venture was the Wemple Brothers of Milford. For a brief time they operated the Lakeshore Creamery. As David Wemple recalled that the main trouble with the creamery was too many bosses and too few laborers. They had put a lot of money into the buildings, a creamery and a milking shed, that they built. David was also under the impression that it was their father, Joseph C. Wemple who probably subsidized the short-lived venture that lasted at most of two years from 1903-1904..

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