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PABST, FREDERICK (1836-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 431 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PABST, See also:FREDERICK (1836-1904) , See also:American See also:brewer, was See also:born at Nicholausreith, in See also:Saxony, on the 28th of See also:March 1836. In 1848 he emigrated with his parents to See also:Chicago. There he became, first a waiter in an hotel, then a See also:cabin-boy on a See also:Lake See also:Michigan steamer, and eventually See also:captain of one of these vessels. In this last capacity he made the acquaintance of a See also:German, See also:Philip Best, the owner of a small but prosperous brewery at See also:Milwaukee, and married his daughter. In 1862 Pabst was taken into See also:partnership in his See also:father-in-See also:law's brewery, and set himself to See also:work to study the details of the business. After obtaining a thorough mastery of the See also:art of See also:brewing, Pabst turned his See also:attention to extending the See also:market for the See also:beer, and before See also:long had raised the output of the Best brewery to 1oo,000 barrels a See also:year. The brewery was eventually converted into a public See also:company, and its See also:capital repeatedly increased in See also:order to See also:cope with the continually increasing See also:trade.

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