Henry Frank Hagemeister was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His father, Franz Heinrich Hagemeister was the founder of the Union Brewery in that city. He put the younger Hagemeister to work at an early age, and perhaps because Franz lacked guidance and opportunity himself as a child, he gave much of both to his own.

When Henry was 27 years old his father brought him in as a partner, and when the elder Hagemeister died in 1892 the son was well appointed to guide the business into the next century. The brewery continued to grow over the next two decades until National Prohibition shut down the manufacture of all alcoholic beverages on January 16th 1920. The firm limped along for a few years as the Hagemeister Food Products Company. They sold ice cream, carbonated soft drinks and de-alcoholized beer. An effort to resurrect the brewery after Repeal as the Valley Brewing & Refrigerating Co. was unsuccessful. Henry Frank Hagemeister died on June 28, 1915.

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