{{Short description|American politician}} {{Infobox Mayor | name = Frederick Buhl | image = FrederickBuhl.jpg | caption = | office = Mayor of Detroit | term_start = 1848 | term_end = 1848 | predecessor = James A. Van Dyke | successor = Charles Howard | birth_date = November 27, 1806 | birth_place = Butler County, Pennsylvania | death_date = May 12, 1890 (aged 83) | death_place = Detroit, Michigan | constituency = | party = | alma_mater = | spouse = Matilda Beatty | profession = | signature = | footnotes = }}
'''Frederick Buhl''' (November 27, 1806 – May 12, 1890) was a businessman from Detroit, Michigan. He served as the city's mayor in 1848.
==Biography== Frederick Buhl was born in Zelienople, Pennsylvania on November 27, 1806, the second of eleven children.<ref name = "farm">{{citation|title = THE HISTORY OF DETROIT AND MICHIGAN |author = Silas Farmer| year = 1889 |pages = 1038–1039; 1043–1044|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yl06VbZ-RfwC&pg=1038}}</ref> He went to Pittsburgh at the age of 16 to learn to be a jeweler, but ill-health forced him to change plans, and in 1833 he moved to Detroit.<ref name = "farm"/> There, he formed a partnership with his brother Christian H. Buhl, a trained hatter. The brothers began selling hats, but soon branched out into furs, establishing a large and successful company under the name of the F & C H Buhl Co.<ref name = "farm"/> They remained in business together for 20 years, after which Christian retired from the trade and Frederick Buhl continued in business independently under the name F. Buhl and Company.<ref name = "leake">{{citation|title = History of Detroit, a chronicle of its progress, its industries, its institutions, and the people of the fair City of the straits, Volume 3 |author = Paul Leake |publisher = The Lewis Publishing Company| year =1912 |pages = 924–925|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1w7iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA924}}</ref> In 1887, Buhl sold the company to his son Walter; the business was eventually sold to Edwin S. George in 1898.<ref name = "farm"/>
In addition to his furrier business, Frederick Buhl was the director of two banks, the president of Harper Hospital, president of the Fort Wayne and Elmwood Street Railway,<ref name = "chron"/> and one of the original directors of the Merchant's Exchange and Board of Trade.<ref name = "farm"/>
Buhl was a Republican,<ref name = "leakep925926">{{citation|title = History of Detroit, a chronicle of its progress, its industries, its institutions, and the people of the fair City of the straits, Volume 3 |author = Paul Leake |publisher = The Lewis Publishing Company| year =1912 |pages = 925–926|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1w7iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA879}}</ref> and served on the city council, and was mayor of Detroit in 1848.<ref name = "chron"/>
In 1836 he married Matilda Beatty;<ref name = "histbio">{{citation|title = Compendium of History and Biography of the City of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan|publisher = Henry Taylor & Co| year = 1908 | pages = 279–280| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=IEk22rbVL9QC&pg=279}}</ref> the couple had six children.<ref name = "chron">{{Citation | editor-last = Carlisle | editor-first = Fred | year = 1890 | title = Chronography of Notable Events in the History of the Northwest Territory and Wayne County | publisher = O.S. Gulley, Bornman | publication-place = Detroit | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=bR4yB_oZTSYC | oclc = 13694600|page = 260}}</ref> Frederick Buhl died May 12, 1890.<ref name = "gov">{{citation|title = The government of the city of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan: 1701 to 1907, historical and biographical| year = 1907 |page = 26| isbn = 9780598455529 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6vhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA26}}</ref>
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{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Buhl, Frederick}} Category:1806 births Category:1890 deaths Category:19th-century mayors of places in Michigan Category:People from Butler County, Pennsylvania Category:Mayors of Detroit Category:Detroit City Council members Category:Michigan Republicans Category:People from Michigan Territory