Industrial history of Milwaukee, the commercial, manufacturing and railway metropolis of the North-west : its great natural resources and advantageous location as a shipping point, with a review of its general business interests, including history of Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, statistical and descriptive, to which is added a series of sketches of the prominent places and people of the Cream City, the rise and progress of firms, institutions, and corporations . hinery. Upwards ofseventy-five hands areemployed in the variousdepartments, and the factory is a regularbee-hive of labor during wo
Industrial history of Milwaukee, the commercial, manufacturing and railway metropolis of the North-west : its great natural resources and advantageous location as a shipping point, with a review of its general business interests, including history of Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, statistical and descriptive, to which is added a series of sketches of the prominent places and people of the Cream City, the rise and progress of firms, institutions, and corporations . hinery. Upwards ofseventy-five hands areemployed in the variousdepartments, and the factory is a regularbee-hive of labor during working business was established about fiveyears ago under the firm name of Mil-waukee Mattress Co., but recently takencharge of by Chas. M., Frank J., Wm. Geo. W. Kipp. Their trade now ex-tends all over the Union, and aggregatesover $200,000 annually. Their goodshave a reputation second to none in thecountry, and are much sought after bythe trade. frame structure, which was used both asa brewery and a dwelling house. It waslocated on Thirteenth street, betweenCherry and Galena streets, and the busi-ness was only carried on during the wintermonths, the beer being stored in a largecellar. The property was sold in i860 toJohn Beck and Stephen Weber; two yearslater Mr. Beck purchased Mr. Webersinterest and continued the business Beck sold out the business in 1877to Wm. Gerlach, and on May ist, 1879,the Cream City Brewing Co. was organ-. CREAM CITY BREWING CO. Office, SOO Thirteentli Street. THE Cream City Brewing Companydates its origin back to May ist,1879, but the business was begun in1853, when Geo. Wehr, his brother Con-rad, and C. Foster built a two-story tACTORY OF Kipp Brothers. ized, with Wm. Gerlach, president; , secretary ; Jac. Veidt, superintend-ent. The officers of the company werechanged in September, 1882, to Wm. Ger-lach, president; Louis P. Best, secretary ;Jacob Veidt, superintendent. In 1883both Mr. Gerlach and Veidt died, Avhen
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