The Nation's Capital Brewmaster
The Nation's Capital Brewmaster

Author: Mark Elliott Benbow

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-10-11

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 147662934X

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Christian Heurich (1842-1945) was not only Washington D.C.'s most successful brewer, he was the world's oldest, with 90 years' experience. He walked across central Europe learning his craft, survived a shipboard cholera epidemic, recovered from malaria and worked as a roustabout on a Caribbean banana boat--all by age 30. Heurich lived most of his life in Washington, becoming its largest private landowner and opening the city's largest brewery. He won a "beer war" against his rivals and his beers won medals at World's Fairs. He was trapped in Europe while on vacation at the start of both World Wars, once sleeping through an air raid, and was accused of being a German spy plotting to assassinate Woodrow Wilson. A notably odd episode: when they began to tear down his old brewery to build the Kennedy Center, the wrecking ball bounced off the walls. Drawing on family papers and photos, the author chronicles Heurich's life and the evolving beer industry before and after Prohibition.

James Joseph Sylvester
James Joseph Sylvester

Author: Karen Hunger Parshall

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2006-05-17

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780801882913

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This text offers a biography of James Joseph Sylvester & his work. A Cambridge student at first denied a degree because of his faith, Sylvester came to America to teach mathematics, becoming Daniel Coit Gilman's faculty recruit at Johns Hopkins in 1876 & winning the coveted Savilian Professorship of Geometry at Oxford in 1883.

The Stranger in Baltimore. a New Hand Book, Containing Sketches of the Early History and Present Condition of Baltimore, with a Description of Its Notable Localities, and Other Information . .
The Stranger in Baltimore. a New Hand Book, Containing Sketches of the Early History and Present Condition of Baltimore, with a Description of Its Notable Localities, and Other Information . .

Author: John F. Comp Weishampel

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-27

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781371806002

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