JACOB MUTH - Biography

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This biography appears on page 646 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

JACOB MUTH, saloon-keeper. Burlington; born at Hesse Darmstadt, Prussia,
in 1825; he came to New York, in 1846; arrived in Milwaukee, May 1,
1846, and worked in P. H. Best & Bros. brewery for two years; he then
went to Sheboygan and built a brewery there, which he operated himself
one year, and, in 1849, took in two partners, Joe and Aug. Binz; in
1852, he sold out his interest to them, and came to Burlington; July 30,
1852, he built a frame brewery here, and operated it till 1872, then
tore down part of the old brewery, and, with some new additions, altered
it into a malt-house, and used it for that purpose till 1876 ; he then
sold the property to the People's State Bank, and started a meat market,
but, not liking the business, he sold that to his nephew and opened the
saloon he now owns. He married, in Milwaukee, in 1847, Margaret
Zimmerman, of Richfield, Wis.; they have five children living-J acob,
Mary, Dora, Emma, and Lilly.