Mattheus Ziegler II was born in Grosswenkheim, Lower Bavaria.  He emigrated to America with his wife Adelheid, formerly Dannhauser, on the 17th day of September 1858.  They settled in Mayville, Wisconsin to be near Adelheid's family friend Mrs. Barbara Henninger, whose husband Johann worked in a brewery in town.  Mattheus was a stone cutter by trade but went into the Saloon business soon after arriving in Wisconsin.  The saloon business expanded to brewing and after a few years he sought to purchase a proper brew house.

In 1874 he bought Benjamin Mayer.'s South Side brewery in Mayville.  Mattheus's oldest son Louis was 15 years of age at the time and was immediately put to work. When Louis came of age he was charged with the management of the firm. 

Mattheus Ziegler died at age 57 on the 17th of February, 1892. Louis continued the brewery for another 10 years before purchasing the Goeggerle brewery in the neighboring town of Beaver Dam.  The Mayville brewery continued under the Mattheus Ziegler name until Prohibition closed it down in 1920.

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