Biographical Sketch of S. Dingeldein, Springfield, Greene County, MO

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Mr. Dingeldein was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Middle Germany, October 15,
1842.  He learned the trade of a brewer, and traveled around for some
seven years.  He landed at New York City, October 6th, 1867, and went
from there to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and in October, 1868, he went to
St. Louis, Mo.  He worked in the largest breweries and malthouses of 
that city for over eight years, and then came to Springfield, Missouri.
He was married in St. Louis to Miss Dora Stuet.  They have two sons and
one daughter.  His father died in Germany in 1859, and his mother died
in 1862.  They had a family of seven girls and six boys.  Four boys and
four girls are yet living.  The brewery was built by Buehner & Finken-
auer in 1872.  Mr. Dingeldein leased the property in October, 1876, for
ten years, and in June, 1882 bought it before the lease expired.  The
old cellar is 16 x 36, 11 1/2 feet high; formenting cellar is 30 x 15;
brew house is 25 x 30 feet; the new cellar is 68 x 88, 13 feet high,
and will store 1,200 barrels.  The walls are of the best rock and laid
in cement.  The new brewery is 40 x 40, 2 1/2 stories high.  When first
started the brewery turned out eight hundred barrels per year.  In 1882
they made twenty-one hundred.

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