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Sunday, May 17, 1807

Jasper Peck Sears was born in West Bloomfield, New York to a family that can trace its roots back to Plymouth Colony. Both of his parents died...

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Sunday, May 17, 1818

Johann Phillip Best, son of Jacob Best, originally a cooper then a brewer, was born.

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Monday, May 17, 1824

Peter Joseph Uedelhoven was born in Tondorf, Prussia.  In 1848 he married Gertrude Blindert and within months they emigrated to Amer...

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Friday, May 17, 1833

Jacob Darmstaetter was born in Framersheim Germany. His family emigrated to America in 1845, when Jacob was just 12. They settled in New York ...

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Friday, May 17, 1833

Jacob Darmstaetter was born in Framersheim Germany. His family emigrated to America in 1845, when Jacob was just 12. They settled in New York ...

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Sunday, May 17, 1835

Casper Koehler was born in Germany.

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Thursday, May 17, 1838

Christoph "Christof" Müller was born in Thiersheim, Germany.  He ran a brewery in Jefferson in and around 1870.  He d...

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Sunday, May 17, 1840

Adam Leopold Kuehlthau was born in Hessen, Germany.  He emigrated to America at age six with his parents.  The family settled in Germanto...

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Saturday, May 17, 1845

William Netzhammer, future proprietor of the Bluff City Brewery of Alton, Illinois, is born in Baden Germany.

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Friday, May 17, 1850

Jacob Weiskircher was born in Germany.   He was the president of the Tube City Brewery in McKeesport, Pennsylvania from its founding unti...

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Thomas Briggs of Elmira, New York

Founded
1866

Closed
1920