Rudolph Frederick Haffenreffer was born in Heidenheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He came to America after the Civil War and opened the Boylston Brewery in 1870. The brewery passed through generation of the Haffenreffer family finally closing in 1964. Haffenreffer died on March 8th, 1929 at the age of 82.
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