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Author: RMunns7272
Surnames: Zeisler, Coleman
Classification: biography
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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 809.
City of La Crosse
GEORGE ZEISLER, proprietor of the Plank Road Brewery; was born in Bavaria, Germany, in
1825; came to America in 1853, and settled in Monroe Co., Penn. Was there three years, and
came from there to La Crosse in 1856. He first worked for C. L. Coleman five years, then
started a copper still for making malt whiskey, which he kept up six years. He was then
one and a half years in the butcher business on Main street. In 1867, he commenced the
brewing business in his present location; was burned out in January, 1874, and soon after
erected his present building, which has a capacity of about 3,500 barrels, and cost
$30,000. In the year 1880, he manufactured about 2,800 barrels.
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