Adam Lausia Luther was born in Homburg, Saarland, Germany.  He came to America, probably with his brothers, during the tumultuous year of 1849.  He settled in Quincy, Illinois where he started a brewery and grocery store on Oak Street.  His brother Jacob started a brewery on State Street.

In 1858 Adam married Karolina Fitterer.  It was a marriage that would produce just one child, in 1880, when Adam was 49.  His brewery was ten years gone by this point, and he described himself as a gardener to the census taker that year.

Gardening was good for him, and a new baby kept him young.  Adam Lausia Luther died at the age of 84 on March 29th of 1917.