Wayne County Biographies



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Emil Minck

Emil Minck was born in Germany in 1832, and when fifteen years of age came to America with his parents and settled in Columbus, Ohio, where he learned the brewer's trade of Hosier & Co., and in 1869 came to Richmond, Ind., where he has since lived. In 1872 he purchased the brewery, of which he is still proprietor. It was erected in 1832 by Jacob Buhl and is one of the oldest establishments of the kind in Eastern Indiana. Mr. Minck, in 1883, enlarged the building, making it at present 40 x 60 feet, three stories high, with an ice-house 20 x 165 feet. He manufactures from 500 to 1,000 barrels of lager beer a year. It is the purest kind and is mostly consumed by private families. Mr. Minck was married in 1852 to Margaret Boashantz, a native of Germany, born in 1830, and came to the United States in 1848. They have a family of four children.

Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884. Volume 2