Biographical Sketch of H. Nunning & Son, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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H. Nunning & Son, brewers.  Henry Nunning, the senior member, was born
in Province of Westphalia, Prussia, and emigrated to America in 1849,
locating at LaPorte, Indiana.  He engaged in business, and after clos-
ing out, emigrated to St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1854.  The son, junior
member of the above firm, was born in LaPorte.  Mr. Nunning established
the brewery in St. Joseph in 1854.  August was taken into the firm in
1879, and has been the successful manager ever since.  The old brewery
was situated on the corner of Eleventh and Faraon Streets, but became
to small, and they were compelled to build a new one on its present
site.  This building is 208 x 64 feet, two stories high, with 400 feet
of cellar; four dry kilns, sixteen fermenting tubs of fifty barrel
capacity each, and three of sixty five barrels capacity each.  They do
their own malting.  The capacity of this brewery is sixty five barrels
at a brew, consuming 38,000 bushels of barley per year.  They give em-
ployment to thirteen men, and their salaries amount to $1,000 per 
month.

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