[1][2] He was born in 1876 to Rachel Caroline Laible (1852–1882) and Christian Benjamin Feigenspan (1844–1899) of Thuringia.

[3] He had three siblings: Edwin Christian Feigenspan (1886–1953); Eleanor Feigenspan (1892–1986) who married Lewis Bacon Ballantyne; and Johanna Caroline, who married Rudolph Victor Kuser.

[1] He married Alis Rule Thoms in 1909, and they had no children from their marriage.

[5][6] The brewery started at 49 Charlton Street in Newark, New Jersey, in 1875.

Around 1890 the brewery was moved to the corner of Freeman and Christie Streets.