Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Zeisler, George 1825 - 
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GEORGE ZEISLER, proprietor of the Plank Road Brewery; was born in Bavaria, 
Germany, in 1825; came to America in 1853, and settled in Monroe Co., Penn. 
Was there three years, and came from there to La Crosse in 1856. He first 
worked for C. L. Coleman five years, then started a copper still for making 
malt whiskey, which he kept up six years. He was then one and a half years in 
the butcher business on Main street. In 1867, he commenced the brewing 
business in his present location; was burned out in January, 1874, and soon 
after erected his present building, which has a capacity of about 3,500 
barrels, and cost $30,000. In the year 1880, he manufactured about 2,800 
barrels.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 809.

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