Background
Vollrath was born on September 19, 1824 in Dörrebach in the Prussian Rhineland, where he learned the trade of molding (casting of wrought iron).
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Jacob Vollrath
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He founded The Vollrath Company. He migrated to the United States in the 1840s and settled in Sheboygan in 1853. In 1874 he began to manufacture porcelain enameled ware, and in 1884 founded the Jacob J. Vollrath Manufacturing Company, which grew steadily under his leadership and which he headed until his death in 1898.
Vollrath invented "gray enameling" (which describes a particular method of manufacture, not a color).
Vollrath married Elizabeth Margaret Fuchs in 1847 and had six children. Two other sons, Jacob Vollrath Junior.
(1894-1964) and Walter J. Vollrath, Senior, (-1964) had served as officers of the Polar Ware Company, of Kiel, Wisconsin. The Vollrath family which he founded was long prosperous and prominent in Sheboygan affairs
