Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. Schlitz Waukesha Hotel History by Mike Reilly Copyright October, 1995 Revised 08/15/2015 A Schlitz Hotel in Waukesha ? Yes, for 22 years a little sister to the grand Schlitz Hotel in downtown Milwaukee graced the Five Points intersection of Waukesha. The Schlitz Hotel was built on the site of the oldAmerican Hotel that had… Read more »
Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. The Last Wills & Testaments of Joseph Schlitz compiled & edited by Mike Reilly1/5/00 Actually what is listed below isthe executors petition to the Court showing that the wills of Joseph and Anna MariaSchlitz were duly executed and they should be discharged from further duty. On the nextpage you’ll find a report by the… Read more »
Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. The Last Will & Testament of Anna Marie Schlitz compiled & edited by Mike Reilly On this page you’ll find areport by the Milwaukee Sentinel newspaper, Tuesday Morning, January 25, 1887, on Anna Maria Schlitz’s will and its’ contents. On the prior page what is listed is the executorspetition to the Court showing that… Read more »
Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. : A ChronologicalHistory Was the Simon J. Meister Brewery the old Krug Brewery? edited and written by Michael R.Reilly, copyright 1995 Simon J. Meister operated a brewery from 1860-1868, making Weiss beer and”syphon” (a mildly alcoholic, heavy brown beer for women and children). Thebuilding in which the brewery was housed stood at 406 Chestnut… Read more »
Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. Chronological History eBook by Editor, Michael R. Reilly Copyright Publication October, 1999 Self-Published Copyright Creation 1994 Revised 08/17/2015 ]]> Acknowledgments Back in 1994, fellow Schlitz historian, Leonard R. Jurgensen, and I talked one day about publishing a book on the history of the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co.. I dove into the project, spending countless hours… Read more »
Pabst BrewingCompany Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly, copyright 1996 Last Revised 08/16/2015 PABST, Frederick, one of the best known and mostenterprising of Milwaukee’s business men, is of Dutch ancestry, although hisforefathers for several generations have been natives of Germany. In 1470 Paul Pabst van Ohorn and his brother,Julius Pabst van Polsenheim, whose father had been executed at… Read more »
Miller BrewingCompany Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly,copyright 1996 Last Revised 08/16/2015 MILLER, Frederick, who was one of Milwaukee’s prominent brewers, wasborn in Reidlingen, Würtemberg, November 24th, 1824. His father, ThaddeusMiller, was a merchant and a representative of a German family that for fourhundred years had been prominent in the mercantile class and noted for theirwealth and education. He… Read more »
DEATH OF THE MILWAUKEE LIQUOR INDUSTRY Article courtesy of John Lindsay with minoralterations by the Editor. Last Revised 08/16/2015 About a hundred and twenty years ago, the Milwaukee liquorindustry was dealt a death blow. Here is how it happened. The distilleries and the breweries grew up here before theCivil War in competitive harmony, even though beer was not… Read more »
