Tuesday, March 20, 1821 Benedict Mayer
Benedict Mayer was born in Heimertingen, Bavaria. He emigrated to America and arrived in Dodge County, Wisconsin some time before 1852. He was married in March of that year to Anna Sophia Possin, a fellow German emigre. Together they had 10 children.
In 1853 Mayer erected a small brewery on Mayville's Main Street to suppliment his meat market business. He sold the brewery two years later to Martin Bachhuber, and from then on devoted full time to the occupation of butcher.
Mayer died on June 30th, 1903 at the age of 82 years. The brewery he founded on Main Street had gone through several ownership changes after Mayer sold it and finally became the Matthias Ziegler Brewery. It closed in 1920.
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