Fred Usinger, an apprentice sausage maker from Wehen in Germany, immigrated to Milwaukee in the late 1870s.

Usinger found work at a small butcher shop on Third Street owned by a Mrs. Julia Gaertner.

After approximately a year, Usinger purchased Gartner's business and married her niece, Louise.

During the 1990s, operational control passed to the fourth generation siblings, Fritz and Debra Usinger.

Usinger's line of cold cuts reaches heights of quality and flavor rarely achieved in this country.