John Brewer Home

ID: 981
This file appears in: Brewery Workers, Bosses and Consumers

Brewer was a locomotive fireman for Omaha Railroad Shops who lived at 720 W. Armstrong (built in 1886).

Date: September, 2013

Photo by: Kimmy Tanaka

This file appears in: Brewery Workers, Bosses and Consumers

By Dave Riehle
German workers and German bosses had a monopoly on brewing beer in St Paul, as they did almost everywhere in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As historian Gary Brueggeman has…