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Blatz, Valentin, 1826-1894

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Personal name headingBlatz, Valentin, 1826-1894
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LocatedMilwaukee (Wis.)
Birth date1826
Death date1894
AffiliationBlatz Brewing Co.
Profession or occupationBrewers
Found inBlatz Brewing Company. Blatz Brewing Company records, 1862-1944 finding aid (Valentin Blatz)
Wikipedia, Nov. 4, 2016 (Valentin Blatz; b. Oct. 1, 1826; d. May 26, 1894; a German-American brewer and banker. He was born in Miltenberg, Bavaria and worked at his father's brewery in his youth. In August 1848 Blatz immigrated to America and by 1849 had moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Blatz established a brewery next to Johann Braun's City Brewery in 1850; It incorporated as the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company in 1889 and by the 1900s was the city's third largest brewer; Blatz died in St. Paul, Minnesota, while returning home to Milwaukee from a trip to California)