Wilhelm Oberle (William Oberly) was born in Rastadt, Baden, Germany.  He trained as a brewer in his native land and came to America in the 1840s.  In around 1845, at age 21, Oberly started a lager beer brewery and saloon on 6th and Union streets in Allentown, Pennsylvania.    He brewed there for nearly twenty years, until his death at age 45 on the 14th of April, 1864.  

Later that year Joseph Lieberman purchased the brewery and renamed it the Eagle.  The brewery operated under the Lieberman name for more than fifty years, until 1915, when the flames beneath the Eagle's brew kettles were doused for the last time.

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