Wilhelmina ZINDEL

Family/Spouse: Franz Maxmillian RUPPERT. Franz was born on 10 Nov 1811 in Bavaria, Germany; died on 30 Sep 1883 in New York City, New York; was buried on 3 Oct 1883 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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)

Family/Spouse: 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]