Adolphus Busch - Legacy

Brewer, born in Mainz, Germany. In 1857 he moved to St Louis, Missouri and opened a brewing supply store with his brother. In 1861 the two brothers married the daughters of customer Eberhard Anheuser, and soon after Adolphus became a partner in his father-in-law's brewery (and in 1867 a naturalized citizen). When Anheuser died (1879), Busch renamed the brewery the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, and he is credited with developing a new, lighter, and drier-tasting beer that he named ‘Budweiser’. He pasteurized his beer and helped develop mechanical refrigeration so goods could be shipped further, and also built a glass factory to make his bottles. He founded the St Louis Manufacturers' Railway to transport coal from his Illinois mines, and in 1898 he brought the Diesel engine to the USA from Switzerland. He was a generous donor to a variety of institutions and causes.

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Colonel Adolphus Busch (July 10, 1839 – October 10, 1913) was the founder of the Anheuser-Busch.

He was born in 1839 in Kastel, Germany (now Mainz-Kastel, Germany).

He envisioned a national beer with universal appeal.

In 1912, Busch constructed the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, Texas, then the tallest building in the state. He died while on vacation in Langenschwalbach, Germany (now Bad Schwalbach, Germany). His body was brought back in 1915 by train to St. Louis and was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.

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The Adolphus Busch is also an intentionally sunk ship off of the middle Florida Keys.