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Friday, September 2, 1859   Christiana Walther

Christiana Walther (Christine Walter) was born in Bergfelden, Kingdom of Württemberg. She was the daughter of a cobbler named Jakob Johann Walter. She emigrated to America sometime the late 1870s and met up with her brother John and his wife in Menasha.

In around 1879 John's family and Christine became acquainted with John Eichert, who was a hotel owner and had a partnership in a brewery in the Wisconsin town of Spencer. John Walter purchased John Eichert's share in the brewery in 1880, and Christine Walter and Eichert became married sometime around 1881. After the Spencer brewery burned in 1889, Christine and John Eichert took their three young children, left Spencer and followed John and his wife Magdalena 80 miles due west to Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

The next year the two families collaborated to purchase and renovate Henry Huebner's Dells Brewery. They renamed it John Walter's City Brewery, or the Walter Brewery for short. John Eichert died in January of 1894. Christine died of a heart attack just four years later on January 9th 1898. She was 38 years old. Their three young children were for a time looked after by John and Magdalena (who were childless) but eventually they left Wisconsin for warmer Los Angeles, California, a city where two of the Walter Brothers (the children's uncles) had established second homes.

The Walter Brewery in Eau Claire was a regional powerhouse for most of the 20th century. It finally closed in 1988, a full century after Christine Walter's death.

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Walter Brewing Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA

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