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6th August 1835
6th August 1835
August H Horn was born in Bavaria and emigrated to America with his parents in 1852. They settled in the town of Oshkosh, Wisconsin and took up farming. On the 29th of May 1856 Horn married Amelia Josephina Schwalm, and, though the Horns and the Schwalms had known each other for years, this union sowed the seeds an enterprise that would last a century.
Horn's new brother-in-law Leonhardt Heinrich Reinhold Schwalm was the owner of a small brewery in Oshkosh's Brooklyn neighborhood. Schwalm offered Horn half interest in the firm for $4500 and Horn accepted. The two partners ran the brewery until Leonhardt's death in 1873. Then Horn ran it alone until his own death on August 17, 1904. The brewery continued on as a family-run enterprise for decades afterwards, surviving Prohibition, merging with it's cross-town competitor (Rahr's), and finally coming to a close in 1971.
August H Horn was born in Bavaria and emigrated to America with his parents in 1852. They settled in the town of Oshkosh, Wisconsin and took up farming. On the 29th of May 1856 Horn married Amelia ... View More
1894 FoundedOshkosh Brewing Co., Horn & Schwalm Brewery1631 Doty Street
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Begin: 1894 End 1940
1894 - 1940
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Circa: 1903
Circa: 1903
From a 1903 lithograph.
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Circa: 1910
Circa: 1910
The new building of the Oshkosh Brewing Co. of Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
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Circa: 1913
Circa: 1913
The brewery as it appeared in a 1913 advertisement.
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Circa: 1933
Circa: 1933
Oshkosh Brewing Company (1933-1971)
Circa: 1933
Oshkosh Brewing Company (1933-1971)
1933 Oshkosh Brewing Company (1933-1971)1631/1642 Doty Street
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Chief Beer
1967-1971
Chief Oshkosh Beer
1936-1971
Chief Oshkosh Bock
1938-1971
Chief Oshkosh Holiday Beer
1959-1971
Oshkosh Near Beer
1933-1935
Oshkosh Special Beer
1933-1938
Picnic Beer
1933-1941
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Circa: 1934
1936Capacity 75000 Barrels
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1936
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Begin: 1938 End 1945
1938 - 1945
1938Capacity 75000 Barrels
1939Capacity 75000 Barrels
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1939
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1946
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1951
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1954
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Circa: 1960
Circa: 1960
The Oshkosh Brewing Co.
1967 Rahr-Green Bay Brewing Co. (Aka of Oshkosh Brewing Co.)1631/1642 Doty Street
Products
All Star Brew Beer
1936-1937
Corday Beer
1948-1952
Green Bay Beer
1934-1936
Kopper Vat Beer
1952-1955
Old Imperial Beer
1934-1953
Rahr's Bock
1934-1966
Rahr's Beer
1934-1966
Rahr's Holiday Beer
1956-1966
Van Dyck Beer
1946-1948
Wisconsin Belgian Brew Beer
1956-1959
1971 ClosedOshkosh Brewing Company (1933-1971)