“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


AUGUST FUERMANN, brewer; was born in Germany Jan. 8, 1822; 
came to Wisconsin in 1847, locating in Milwaukee, where he opened a 
grocery and saloon; he then moved to Watertown and engaged in the 
brewing of lager beer in a building 24 x 50 and gradually made additions 
to the same until he has the handsomest brewery in Watertown.  He 
married, in 1846, Christiana Hengott, of Prussia; he has nine children – 
Charlie, August, Amelia, Julius, Aida, Henry, Iette, Albert and Gerhard.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)