Amanda Elizabeth RUPPERT

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• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Manhatten, New York Co., New York
• Census: 1940, Living with husband in Greenwich, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

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Name:
Amanda Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Ruppert-Silleck was the beloved wife of Henry Garrison Silleck, Jr. and daughter of Jacob and Anna Gillig-Ruppert and sister of Hon. Col. Jacob Ruppert, Jr., famous beer baron and owner of the New York Yankees until his death in 1939. She had three children: Henry Garrison Silleck III, Helen Ruppert Silleck (Mrs. Frank Jos. Holleran) and Ruth Rita Silleck (Mrs. Jos. Basil Maguire). Amanda lived her entire life in New York City, within a few blocks of the very home in which she was born on the corner of East 93rd and Fifth Avenue. She passed of cancer on April 25, 1952. Also surviving her were her three grandchildren, Glenna, Richard and Romer Holleran. A requiem mass was held at St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church of Glenville, Connecticut (now St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church of Greenwich, Connecticut). She was the last survivor of her siblings, Cornelia, Frank, Jacob, Anna and George, all interred herein.
--- K. Jacob Ruppert, New York/New Orleans.

Family/Spouse: Henry Garrison SILLECK, Jr.. Henry was born on 22 Nov 1870 in New York City, New York; died on 5 Oct 1962 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Henry Garrison SILLECK, III was born on 12 Apr 1906 in New York City, New York; died on 11 Feb 1984 in Palm Beach, Florida.

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Name:
Founder of the Jacob Ruppert Brewing Company. Jacob Ruppert, Sr. was one of the first and most noted brewers in the US. He was born in NYC and was a son of Franz and Wilhelmina Zindel-Ruppert of Bavaria. Under he expert guidance of his father, Jacob learned the brewing trade thoroughly. At ten he began working for his father's Turtle Bay Brewery in Midtown Manhattan which was then only two years old. Work was hard for him and his father, as machinery was scarce during the Civil War. In 1867 he opened the Jacob Ruppert Brewing Co. on Manhattan's then-forested Upper East Side. With a 50 foot square brick building, he opened what was to be the first of many breweries. The Jacob Ruppert Brewery steadily became one of the largest and best-equipped breweries in the world. He eventually broadened his entrepreneurial interests to include real estate which became the biggest money maker for the Rupperts helping them to survive (along with Jacob Jr's interest in baseball) the coming war, Prohibition and Great Depression. Jacob Jr. eventually took over the brewing business and brought it and the Ruppert name to greater fame and glory.Jacob Ruppert, Sr. was a forceful, single-purposed man with a great capacity for work. His charities were numerous but unostentatious.He married Anna Gillig, daughter of brewer George Gillig, and had six children: Cornelia, Jacob, Frank, Anna, George and Amanda, all interred with their father in our family's mausoleum. Jacob died of cirrhosis at the age of 74, an illness brought on by the years of testing the very brew he sold. (bio by: K. Jacob Ruppert)

Jacob married Anna GILLIG. Anna was born on 12 Aug 1842 in New York City, New York; died on 16 Mar 1924 in New York City, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of George Gillig and Anna Dorn