- Valentin Blatz
Valentin Blatz (
October 1 ,1826 –May 26 ,1894 ) was a German-American brewer and banker. He was born inBavaria and worked at his father's brewery in his youth. In August of 1848 Blatz immigrated to America and by 1849 had moved toMilwaukee, Wisconsin [ [http://www.zalewskifamily.net/2007/12/06/famous-milwaukeeans] "Valentin was a German-American brewer and banker. He was born in Bavaria and worked at his father’s brewery in his youth. He started a brewery which became home to Blatz Beer. Valentin was one of the many “beer barons” of Milwaukee. So many, in fact, that there is a section at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee called “Beer Baron’s Hill” which houses a few of these men."] .Blatz established a brewery next to Johann Braun's City Brewery in 1850 and merged both breweries upon Braun's death in 1852. He also married Braun's widow.
The brewery produced Milwaukee's first individually bottled beer in 1874. It incorporated as the
Valentin Blatz Brewing Company in 1889 and by the 1900s was the city's third largest brewer.He is buried in a massive family mausoleum at
Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee.References and notes
External links
* [http://pabst.com/mainpage.html?http://pabst.com/beer_blatz.html Official website from Pabst] Brewing Company
* [http://www.angelfire.com/rant/punkmoore/Blatz/bio.html Biography of Valentin Blatz]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/rant/punkmoore/index.html Blatz Online Fan Site]
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