Bernardt Rudolph Arnold Hartmann was born in Ankum, Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. In 1862 he emigrated to America and within five years had married and settled down in Belleville, Illinois. In 1867 he bought a minority holding in the Star Brewery. In 1872 he brought his brother Hubert in as partner, and for the next 22 years Star Brewery was a family-owned business. Bernard Hartmann died on the 13th of November, 1919, just months before Prohibition forced his brewery to close.

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