BIOGRAPHIES:  Phillip LORENZ, Durand, Pepin Co., WI

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PHILLIP LORENZ, brewer, Durand, was born on the Rhine, at Krentznach,
Prussia, Jan. I6, 1837. He came to the United States in 1854, landing,
Dec. 9, at New Orleans. He then came up to Iron Mountain, Mo., and
lived there seven years working in a foundry, and then came to Alma,
Wis., and worked there five years, then came to Durand and bought the
brewery. In 1874 the brewery burned and he rebuilt it the same year. He
was married, March 29, 1860, to Miss Christiana Ellsmann, at Iron
Mountain, Mo., formerly from Hanover, Germany. They have four children
living-Mina, John, Helma and Jennie.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 702


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