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Busch, Adolphus
(1839-1913)
Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
Overview
A German immigrant to the United States, Adolphus Busch started his career with a small brewing supply company and went on to found one of the largest and most successful breweries in the United States.
Personal Life
Adolphus Busch was born July 10, 1839, in Mainz, Germany, and was the second youngest of 22 children born to Ulrich Busch and Barbara (Pfeiffer) Busch, Ulrich's second wife. Ulrich was a prosperous merchant, innkeeper, and landowner and Adolphus was educated in some the finest schools in Europe. He went to the Gymnasium at Mainz, the academy at Darmstadt, and the high schools of Brussels. After finishing school, Busch worked in a brewers' supply company that was owned by his father and in a mercantile house in Cologne.
Busch led a comfortable life in Germany. He was well educated and his family was wealthy, but Busch decided to immigrate in 1857. Accompanying some relatives Busch arrived in New Orleans, traveled up the Mississippi River, and settled in St. Louis, Missouri, where he worked on a steamboat
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The King of Beer
by Gerald Holland
(originally published in The American Mercury, October, 1929).
Part One
Whatever odium may be attached to beer in other parts of the Republic, its status in St. Louis is as firmly grounded as James Eads' span across the Mississippi. Notwithstanding the desperate fight of the local Methodists to erase the blot from the city's history, the record stands. Beer made St. Louis, and Adolphus Busch made the beer.
This king of brewers, curiously enough, was not really a brewer at all: he was a super-salesman, and perhaps the greatest ever heard of in America. Granted that he knew good beer and ever sought it, the fact remains that he did not know how to make it. In the course of time, to be sure, he found men who did, but that was a detail. He sold the bad almost as facilely as he sold the good
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Adolphus Busch
German-born co-founder of Anheuser-Busch (1839–1913)
For other people named Adolphus Busch, see Adolphus Busch (disambiguation).
Adolphus Busch | |
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| Born | (1839-07-10)10 July 1839 Kastel, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Confederation |
| Died | 10 October 1913(1913-10-10) (aged 74) Lindschied, Hesse-Nassau, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire |
| Resting place | Bellefontaine Cemetery |
| Occupation(s) | Brewing executive and founder |
| Spouse | Lilly Eberhard Anheuser (m. 1861) |
| Children | 12, incl. August A. Busch |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service / branch | Union Army |
| Years of service | May - August 1861 |
| Rank | Corporal |
| Unit | 3rd Missouri Infantry, US Reserve Corps |
| Battles / wars | American Civil War |
Adolphus Busch (10 July 1839 – 10 October 1913[citation needed]) was the German-born co-founder of Anheuser-Busch with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser. He introduced numerous innov
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