Christian Heurich

[1] Christian Ferdinand Heurich was born on September 12, 1842, in the village of Haina, near the town of Römhild, Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen (in the region of Thuringia),[2][3][4] Christian was the third of four children born to Kaspar and Anna Margarethe (née Fuchs) Heurich.

[2] He traveled throughout Europe until his older sister, Elizabeth Jacobsen, who was living in Baltimore, Maryland, convinced him to emigrate to the United States, where he would have a better chance of fulfilling his dream of starting his own brewery; he arrived in June 1866, initially joining his sister in Baltimore.

[2][5] As a young man, Heurich learned how to make lager beer in Bavaria and Vienna, Austria.

[2][3] Heurich then moved to Ripley, Ohio, and worked for a brewery there until it was sold to a firm in Cincinnati.

In his 1934 autobiography, Aus meinem Leben, Heurich writes that he was the one who did most of the labor of brewing while Schnell entertained customers.

[3][10] The Heurich Brewing Company would later follow this commercial success with testimonials in newspapers from physicians prescribing the beer "on account of its purity".

The brewery, which rested on the Potomac River, is now the site of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and part of the approach of the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge.

Due to a miscarriage and a carriage accident, Mathilde died in 1895, leaving Christian a widower again.

He was more than twenty years her senior, and together they had four children, three of whom survived into adulthood: Christian Heurich Jr., Anna Marguerite (who died as an infant), Anita Augusta, and Karla Louise.

[2][7][15] Christian Heurich Jr. would continue running the brewery after his father's death and would also work as a real estate investor.

[2] In 1886, Heurich purchased a tract of land near Hyattsville, Maryland, and part of Brookland neighborhood.

His second wife, Mathilde, worked very closely with the interior designers of the house, The Huber Brothers, NYC.

[26] He was buried at the Heurich Mausoleum, which he originally had made for his family near Hyattsville, but resides in Rock Creek Cemetery.