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Saturday, June 9, 1827   J. Adolph Henry Lorenz

J. Adolph Henry Lorenz was born in Saxony, Germany. in 1850 at age 23 he emigrated to America through Baltimore. He settled in Crawfordville, Indiana where he began work in a brewery. Three years later he purchased that brewery and ran it until business reversals forced its closure. On April 20th, 1870, at the age of 42, Lorenz jumped off a bridge into Sugar Creek and drowned.

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