Ernst Freidrich Baruth was born in Hamburg Germany. At age 22 he emigrated to America through Ellis Island and made his way across the country to San Francisco. There he went into partnership in a grocery business. The grocery business gradually evolved into a wholesale liquor dealership and then a Bottling agency. In 1895 he teamed up with Otto Schinkel Jr. to form the Anchor Brewery in that city. Baruth died on February 14, 1906. Schinkel died the following January. Their brewery on Pacific Street closed, but was resurrected in 1908 on 18th and Hampshire Streets. The Anchor Steam brewery exists to this day.

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