Biography:

Rudolf Cronau was born in Solingen, Prussia, in 1855.  He attended the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf, Prussia, before coming to the United States in 1880.  He married Margarethe (Margaret) Taenzier in 1888.  He settled in Phillips Manor, New York.
Cronau worked as an American reporter for the Cologne Gazette from 1893 to 1899.  He was a writer, traveler, and lecturer for most of his life, publishing ac counts of his travels in the West and histories of the discovery and development of America, of German American settlement and achievements, of the American Revolution, and of Prohibition and the destruction of the American brewing industry.