The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . ne daughter,—Charles (Sumner, born July 31, 1861, and Flora Elizabeth, iborn February 25, 1874. \ CAPTAIN FRED PABST, MILWAUKEE. FRED PABST, president of the Phillip BestBrewing Company, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,was born at Nickolausrieth, Prussia, March 28,1836, and is the son of Gotlieb and FredericaPabst. He was brought up on a farm and edu-cated in a common school at the place of his nativ-ity until he arrived at the age of thirteen his arrival in America he attended th
The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . ne daughter,—Charles (Sumner, born July 31, 1861, and Flora Elizabeth, iborn February 25, 1874. \ CAPTAIN FRED PABST, MILWAUKEE. FRED PABST, president of the Phillip BestBrewing Company, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,was born at Nickolausrieth, Prussia, March 28,1836, and is the son of Gotlieb and FredericaPabst. He was brought up on a farm and edu-cated in a common school at the place of his nativ-ity until he arrived at the age of thirteen his arrival in America he attended the com-mercial college for a few months for the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of book-keeping. He came -^to AVisconsin in 1848, and resided at Milwaukee a |short time, thence removing to Chicago, where he 1found employment in the National Hotel, working JJone year for his board. The next year he was era- aployed at the Mansion House at five dollars per ?month. His next occupation was that of cabin-boy «on the steamer Sam Ward on the lakes, and then Jscaptain and part owner of the steamer Comet. In \. THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONART. 317 1864 he sold his interest in the boat and investedhis funds in the business of the Best Brewing Com-pany, and four years afterward he purchased a halfinterest, and Captain Pabst became its presidentand general manager. Success has attended all ofhis enterprises until he has become one of thewealthy men of Milwaukee. In his religious sentiments Captain Pabst is aLutheran, although not a very strict attendant uponthe services of the church. He is essentially a self-made man, of well-developed physique, capable ofundergoing much manual labor, practical in hisviews, ardent in his temperament, self-reliant andenergetic; he could scarcely fail of success in anyenterprise he would undertake. He is a man of warm friendships and of social habits, is happyhimself and endeavors to diffuse hajipiness aroundhim. As a politician he is neutral,
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