Adolphus Busch I
Born	July 10, 1839 Kastel
Died	October 10, 1913 Langenschwalbach
Occupation	Brewing Executive and Founder
Spouse	Lilly Eberhard Anheuser (m. Events 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia. Year 1839 ( MDCCCXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Mainz-Kastel is a district administered by the city of Wiesbaden, Germany. Events 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Bad Schwalbach (called Langenschwalbach until 1927 is the capital of Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. 1861)
Children	Adolphus Busch II August Anheuser Busch Sr Carl Busch
Parents	Ulrich Busch and Barbara Pfeiffer

Colonel Adolphus Busch (July 10, 1839 – October 10, 1913) was the co-founder of Anheuser-Busch with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser. Events 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia. Year 1839 ( MDCCCXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Events 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc ( (ˈænhаɪzər bʊʃ is the largest Brewing company in the United States with a 48 Eberhard Anheuser (1805 Bad Kreuznach - May 2, 1880) was a German -born soap and candle maker as well as the father-in-law of Adolphus His great-great-grandson, August Busch IV is now president and CEO of Anheuser-Busch. August Anheuser Busch IV (born 1964 is the great-great-grandson of Anheuser-Busch founder Adolphus Busch, the son of former chairman president and CEO August

Biography

Busch was born in 1839 in Kastel, a district of Mainz in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Mainz-Kastel is a district administered by the city of Wiesbaden, Germany. Mainz (ˈmaɪ̯nʦ (Mayence is a City in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The Grand Duchy of Hesse (Großherzogtum Hessen was a former state that existed in modern-day Germany. He was the second youngest of 22 siblings. The family worked in winery and brewery supplies. He attended the Collegiate Institute of Belgium in Brussels, and left his home in 1857 with three of his brothers for St. Louis, Missouri:

• Johann, who established a brewery in Washington, Missouri,
• Ulrich Jr, who married another daughter of Eberhard Anheuser, and lived in Chicago, and
• Anton, who was a hop dealer, but returned home to Mainz.

His first job in St. Louis was working as a clerk in the commission house. He was also an employee at William Hainrichshofen's wholesale company.

He became acquainted with Lilly Anheuser, whose parents had a small brewery which her father Eberhard Anheuser (1805-1880) acquired in 1860, renaming it from the Bavarian Brewery to the E. Eberhard Anheuser (1805 Bad Kreuznach - May 2, 1880) was a German -born soap and candle maker as well as the father-in-law of Adolphus Anheuser Brewery.

He married 17 year old Lilly Eberhard Anheuser on March 7, 1861 in St. Louis. Events 161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus Year 1861 ( MDCCCLXI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common They had thirteen children, including Adolphus Busch II; August Anheuser Busch I; Carl Busch; and five daughters. This page is for 2nd generation brewing magnate August Anheuser Busch Sr

During the American Civil War he served in the United States Army for 14 months. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. It was at this time that he learned that his father had died and that he had inherited a portion of his father's estate. He used the money to start a wholesale brewer's supply store, and four years later he bought a share in the Bavarian brewery from Eberhard Anheuser, his father-in-law. Eberhard Anheuser (1805 Bad Kreuznach - May 2, 1880) was a German -born soap and candle maker as well as the father-in-law of Adolphus The company was first called "Anheuser and Company", but at the death of Eberhard Anheuser in 1879, it was changed to "Anheuser Busch Company".

Busch Mausoleum, St. Louis, Missouri

The rapid success of the Anheuser Brewer made its owner independent and permitted him to perform philanthropic activities, such as assisting in the repair of the devastating 1882 flooding of Kastel-Mainz by the Rhine River.

In 1891 Adolphus bought from Carl Conrad the trademark and name Budweiser. Budweiser is an American-style lager and is one of the most popular beers in the United States.

He envisioned a national beer with universal appeal. Toward this end, he created a network of rail-side ice-houses and launched the industry’s first fleet of refrigerated freight cars. Success came when Adolphus found a method to pasteurize the beer so it kept fresh. The beer could now be shipped all over the country. He was also an early adopter of bottled beer. In 1901 sales surpassed the one million barrels of beer benchmark.

In 1912, Busch constructed the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, Texas, then the tallest building in the state. Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting The Adolphus Hotel (often referred to locally as simply " The Adolphus " is an upscale Hotel in the Main Street District of downtown

He and Lilly often traveled to Germany where they had a mansion in Langenschwalbach, Germany (now Bad Schwalbach, Germany); he died there in 1913 while on vacation. Bad Schwalbach (called Langenschwalbach until 1927 is the capital of Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. Bad Schwalbach (called Langenschwalbach until 1927 is the capital of Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. He had been suffering from dropsy since 1906. Oedema (or Edema in American English formerly known as dropsy or hydropsy, is the increase of Interstitial fluid in any organ &mdash swelling His body was brought back in 1915 by ship to the United States and then a train to St. Louis and he was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Bellefontaine Cemetery (established in 1849 and the Roman Catholic Calvary Cemetery (established in 1857 in St Louis. ^[1]

Legacy

The Adolphus Busch is also an intentionally sunk ship off of the middle Florida Keys. Adolphus Busch IV contributed nearly $200,000 to the procurement of this vessel and its preparation for sinking as an artificial reef. As a result, the vessel was named in his honor. Today it is a marine habitat and popular dive site^[2].

Adolphus Busch also built a series of buildings in downtown Dallas. One of which was the Busch Building, now known as the Kirby Residences, located at 1509 Main St. It is a national landmark.

References