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Author: L. A. Fritsche

JOHN HAUENSTEIN, JR.

    John Hauenstein, Jr., secretary of the Hauenstein Brewing Company, of New
Ulm, and brewmaster for that well-known concern, is a native son of Brown
county, having been born in New Ulm, on the site of the brewery which his late
father established, April 11, 1876, son of John and Henrietta (Fritsche)
Hauenstein, both natives of Germany, the former of whom was born in Bavaria and
the latter in Saxony, who, as youthful members of different parties of
colonists, came to this section of Minnesota and thus became early settlers of
New Ulm.

    John Hauenstein, Sr., was the eldest of the five children born to Casper
Hauenstein and wife, the others having been Weigand, Casper, Margaret and
Kunikundi. In 1852 the Hauensteins came to the United States and located in
Cincinnati, where, not long afterward both the father and the mother fell
victims to the cholera scourge which swept that city about that time. John
Hauenstein was about twenty-one years old when he came to this country. He had
been trained in the cooperage and brewery trades in his home country and upon
arriving in this country followed these vocations in Cincinnati. In 1858 he left
that city and followed the considerable company of Cincinnati Germans who had
come to this section of Minnesota, locating at New Ulm. There he married
Henrietta Fritsche. who had come to the United States with her parents, Johann
Carl and Fredricka (Ries) Fritsche, and the other members of the family, Ernest,
Fred, Louis, Carl, Selma, Mina and Emily, in 1852. Upon arriving in this country
the Fritsches located in Chicago, where, the next year, in 1853, they joined the
colony of Germans organized there by the Chicago Landverein and came to this
section of Minnesota, thus being among the very earliest settlers of New Ulm.
Johann Carl Fritsche and his wife spent the remainder of their lives in New Ulm,
the former dying at the age of sixty-eight years and the latter at the age of
eighty-one.

     Upon settling in New Ulm John Hauenstein found employment at his trade as a
cooper and was thus engaged when the Indian insurrection broke out in 1862. He
was one of the first to spring to organized defense of the city and was elected
second lieutenant of Company M, of the Mounted Rangers. It was Lieutenant
Hauenstein who drew the first redskin blood in Milford township during that
conflict. The Indian he shot and wounded was captured and in 1863 met his fate
with that of thirty-eight others of his kind on the gallows at Mankato.
Following the massacre Lieutenant Hauenstein continued to serve in the Rangers,
doing scout duty, until the uprising had been put down, after which he resumed
his place in the cooper shop. In 1864 he established a small brewery on the site
of his home, his expert experience acquired as a young man in Bavaria standing
him well instead, and so popular did the quality of his excellent brew prove
that it was not long before he found it necessary to increase the capacity of
his plant. From this small beginning the present great Hauenstein brewery at New
Ulm has grown, the plant at present having a capacity of about twenty thousand
barrels a year, its output being in demand all over southern Minnesota and as
far up the state as Minneapolis. Mr. Hauenstein died on April 15, 1914, at the
age of eighty-three, for many years having been numbered among the leading
citizens of New Ulm, and the business which he created is still being carried on
by the family. His widow, who survives him, is now in her seventieth year. They
were the parents of eight children, namely: Charles, present head of the
Hauenstein Brewing Company; Alma, wife of Martin Hose, treasurer of the same
company; Bertha, wife of Fred Behnke, of New Ulm; Louisa, wife of Charles Furst,
of Bedford, Indiana; Emily, wife of Fred Seiter, of Kiesling, Washington;
Frieda, wife of Henry Furst, Jr., of Chicago; John, the immediate subject of
this biographical sketch, and Louis, who died in infancy.

     John Hauenstein, Jr., was reared in New Ulm, the city of his birth,
receiving his elementary education in the schools of that city. He later
attended the Educational Institute at St. Louis and then, in order to perfect
himself in the details of his father's business, attended the Wallen & Henius
Brewing School at Chicago, from which technical institute he was graduated in
1897, a competent brewmaster, after which he returned home and took his place in
the Hauenstein brewery, a valuable aid to his father in the operation of that
business. In 1900 the business was incorporated under the laws of the state,
with the following officers: John Hauenstein, Sr., president; Charles
Hauenstein, vice-president; Fred Seiter, secretary, and Martin Hose, treasurer;
capital stock one hundred thousand dollars. Following the death of the elder
Hauenstein in 1914, the company was reorganized and since then the following
officers have been in charge: Charles Hauenstein, president and general manager;
Mrs. Henrietta Hauenstein, vice-president; John Hauenstein, secretary and
brewmaster, and Martin Hose, treasurer.

     On November 16, 1910, John Hauenstein was united in marriage to Hertha
Mueller, who was born in New Him, daughter of Martin and Amelia (Toberer)
Mueller, a history of which family is set out in detail in a biographical sketch
relating to Martin Mueller, a well-known automobile dealer in New Ulm, presented
elsewhere in this volume, and to this union three children have been born,
Richard John, Marguerite Amelia and Laura Louise. The Mueller family is one of
the oldest in the county, as is that of the Hauensteins, and both Mr. and Mrs.
Hauenstein have hosts of friends hereabout, all of whom hold them in high esteem.


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Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana


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