Ignatz Uhrig

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Franz Ignatz Uhrig (born March 1, 1820 in Laudenbach ; † February 9, 1861 in St. Louis ) was a German entrepreneur , brewer and restaurateur .

biography

His parents were Ignatz Joseph Uhrig († 1844) and Anna Maria Uhrig (née Sittinger; † 1830). His family worked in shipping on the Main .

His brothers Johann and Joseph had emigrated to the USA . Ignatz followed them in 1836 and joined Joseph's transport company.

Together, Joseph and Ignatz decided to get into the brewery business. In 1839 you and Anton Kraut opened the Camp Spring Brewery on Market Street. Two years later, Kraut died of cholera and the brewery operated under the name Joseph Uhrig Brewing Company .

Not far from the brewery was a large piece of land on the corner of Locust Street and Washington Avenue that belonged to the famous doctor William Beaumont . Since there was a large cave under this property, they decided in 1852 to buy it and convert the cave into a storage room.

The brothers opened the Uhrig's Cave in this cave . In order to transport the beer from the brewery to the restaurant faster, they had a connecting tunnel dug between the cellars and a rail connection installed. Uhrig's Cave was a popular meeting place in St. Louis in the following decades , where plays were also performed.

Uhrig built a series of stone houses ( Stein's Town ) in 1851 , which were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Uhrig died on February 9, 1861. He was buried two days later in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis .

family

Ignatz Uhrig married Josephine Soderer on October 11, 1849. The two daughters Caroline and Mary emerged from this marriage.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Barlow Stevens: St. Louis: The Fourth City, 1764-1911, Volume 2 , p. 693 Available online on Google Books , accessed June 14, 2013.
  2. ^ Alison Smith, Clifford Neal Smith: Early Nineteenth-Century German Settlers in Ohio (Mainly Cincinnati and Environs), Kentucky, and Other States. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4a, 4b, and 4C , p. 43 Available online on Google Books , accessed June 14, 2013.
  3. ^ William Hyde, Howard Louis Conard: Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis: A Compendium of History and Biography for Ready Reference, Volume 4, Part 2 , p. 2329 Available online on Google Books , accessed June 14 2013.
  4. ↑ Sussex-Lisbon Area Historical Society, Inc .: From Miltenberg to Milwaukee ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 15, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.slahs.org
  5. ↑ Hubert Rother, Charlotte Rother: Lost Caves of St. Louis , p. 37 Available online on Google Books , accessed June 14, 2013.
  6. ↑ a b Find A Grave: Ignatz Uhrig (English), accessed on June 15, 2013.
  7. ↑ Tim Fox: Where We Live: A Guide to St. Louis Communities , p. 32 available online on Google Books , accessed June 15, 2013.
  8. ↑ John Aaron Vright, Sylvia A. Wright: Carondelet (MI) , p 94 Available online at Google Books (English), accessed on June 15, 2013.
  9. ^ Association for Computer Genealogy: Franz Ignatz Uhrig Retrieved June 15, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Watch, Ignatz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uhrig, Franz Ignatz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, brewer and restaurateur
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Laudenbach (Lower Franconia)
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1861
Place of death St. Louis