Friedrich William Sutor was born in Prussia. He emigrated to America in the early 1850s and settled in Travis County Texas. He went in to the general store business and by 1870 he had opened his own shop. In 1872 he advertised himself as a brewer, which would make him one of the first brewers in Travis County. F. W. Sutor died on March 16th 1878 at age 58 years.