The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1879-01-04
FRED'K LAUER, THE GREAT BREWER.

The Lebanon, Pa Courier of recent date says ::
"a New York monthly publication gives fine
steel likeness of our enterprising Reading neigh
Dor, Frederick Lauer, with handsome plates of his
beautiful park and extensive buildings in the cap
ital of Alt Berks Mr.. Lauer's history is event
full and interesting one. His father early in the
present century. was a comparatively wealthy
landowner in the Palatinate, (where Frederick
was born in 1SI0.) Owing to the disturbed con-
dition of Europe at that time from the Napoleonic
wars, his district had become very much impovish-
ed. Alternate occupation by the allied armies,
and those of France, for nine years, had rendered
the district very poor the rapaciy of the soldiery
had left scarce hog, dog, or ribbit on the land
for miles around; cattle on farms became a curl
osit. and poultry was thing of the past So
in 1912 the elder Lauer, with his wife and child
ren-two boys and five girls-came to the United
States, and on the 9th of September, 1923, he
reached Reading, with but single dollar left of
his fortune, He soon started brewery at Womels
dat then removed W efted for about three years,
location the place that has ever since been in the
name, and is now the site of the fine park and
large breweries of the son Frederick. There was
a cabin on the ground inhabited by an old Indian,
and the cabin remodeled in which first to be-
gin the business of brewing at that place. Fred
eriek was boy full of ingenuity and with that
untiring energy which served him so well in after
years, and he set to work to do the brick work
himself required in the improvements. Early and
late he was at work, two or three hours sleep out
of the twenty -four being all that he allowed him
self and in 1885 he became the sole proprietor of
the brewery, which by that time was doing a large
business, and which has been extended until the
products of Lauers brewery are known through
out this country and in Europe. Mr.. Lauer has
long been recognized as the head of the brewing
interests in the United States. When the ques-
ton of taxing malt liquors, with other things, to
raise revenue for carrying on the war, was before
Congress, Mr.. Lauer was the chairman of a COM
mittee of three sent to Europe to examine the tax
laws of European countries in that relation, and
on his return he made very valuable and able
report on the subject During the war he took
very active interest on the Union side, and spent
large sums of money in helping to equip soldiers
and in providing for their comfort in the field and
the hospitals. He has long been known as one of
Readings most spirited citizens, having ac-
quired quite respectable fortune, which he has
always used with great liberality. He spent 49,,
900 in the single enterprise of sinking artesian
we'll. His generous character has made him
great favorite with the people of Reading, and
visitor to that city is scarcely regarded as having
done justice to the place unless he has seen Lauers
Park received an introduction to the proprietor,
and seen the numerous curiosities which he has
acquired in long and busy life, among which are
some very handsome and expensive medals which
he has received ON different occasions as testimO
mails to his enterprise"