Jacob RUPPERT, Sr.

1842 - 1915  (73 years)

• Name	Jacob RUPPERT  [1]
  	Founder of the Jacob Ruppert Brewing Company. Jacob Ruppert, Sr. was one of the first and most noted brewers in the US. He was born in NYC and was a son of Franz and Wilhelmina Zindel-Ruppert of Bavaria. Under he expert guidance of his father, Jacob learned the brewing trade thoroughly. At ten he began working for his father's Turtle Bay Brewery in Midtown Manhattan which was then only two years old. Work was hard for him and his father, as machinery was scarce during the Civil War. In 1867 he opened the Jacob Ruppert Brewing Co. on Manhattan's then-forested Upper East Side. With a 50 foot square brick building, he opened what was to be the first of many breweries. The Jacob Ruppert Brewery steadily became one of the largest and best-equipped breweries in the world. He eventually broadened his entrepreneurial interests to include real estate which became the biggest money maker for the Rupperts helping them to survive (along with Jacob Jr's interest in baseball) the coming war, Prohibition and Great Depression. Jacob Jr. eventually took over the brewing business and brought it and the Ruppert name to greater fame and glory.Jacob Ruppert, Sr. was a forceful, single-purposed man with a great capacity for work. His charities were numerous but unostentatious.He married Anna Gillig, daughter of brewer George Gillig, and had six children: Cornelia, Jacob, Frank, Anna, George and Amanda, all interred with their father in our family's mausoleum. Jacob died of cirrhosis at the age of 74, an illness brought on by the years of testing the very brew he sold. (bio by: K. Jacob Ruppert) [1]
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	4 Mar 1842	New York City, New York   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 May 1915	New York City, New York   [1]
  Burial	Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, Westchester Co., New York   [1]
  Person ID	I77210	Main Tree
  Last Modified	15 Mar 2015

  
  

  Father	Franz Maxmillian RUPPERT,   b. 10 Nov 1811, Bavaria, Germany d. 30 Sep 1883, New York City, New York (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Wilhelmina ZINDEL,   b. 3 May 1813, Bavaria, Germany d. 9 Mar 1865 (Age 51 years)
  Family ID	F31183	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna GILLIG,   b. 12 Aug 1842, New York City, New York d. 16 Mar 1924, New York City, New York (Age 81 years)
  Children	+ 1. Amanda Elizabeth RUPPERT,   b. 3 Dec 1878, New York City, New York d. 25 Apr 1952, New York City, New York (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F31181	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Mar 2015

  
  

• Photos

  Jacob Ruppert, Sr. Jacob Ruppert,Sr. is the Founder of the Jacob Ruppert Brewing Company. he was one of the first and most noted brewers in the US. He is married to Anna Gillig. Find A Grave Photo Added by: Ron Moody

  
  

• Sources

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