Krug and Uihlein clasped a wooden box until rescued by sailors of the American bark, Devonshire.

[a] On the death of Schlitz in 1875, control of the firm passed into the hands of Uihlein and his brothers.

Interested in purebred racehorses, he kept a large stock farm at Truesdell, Wisconsin, near Kenosha.

[7] Uihlein donated large sums to the German-English Academy and to the Milwaukee Public Library.

[4] Uihlein died in 1911 in Heligoland, Germany, whose then-ruler was Kaiser Wilhelm II.