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Does anyone have information on who Stoepel was?
Frederick Stoepel started out in the dry goods business, after immigrating to Detroit from Germany. He eventually became very prominent in the local business community and involved in a range of businesses. The Stoepel family used some of their fortune to buy land in what was then Greenfield and Redford Townships, and Frederick Stoepel Jr. became a major real estate developer of what would grow into northwest Detroit.