This week in Wisconsin history, well-known Milwaukee brewer Joseph Schlitz was born in Mainz, Germany, on May 15, 1831. He immigrated to Milwaukee in 1855 before working at a brewery operated by August Krug. Schlitz would later take over the brewery when Krug passed, and it would reorganize as Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. in 1874.
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