Ignatz BILGER (b. 1828)

BILGER, KUTHAR

Posted By: Linnie Howell (email)
Date: 5/30/2005 at 21:30:25

BILGER, Ignatz, brewer, Sec. 36; P. O. Douglass; born in Germany in 1828; came to this country in 1847, and settled in Buffalo, N. Y. In 1849 he crossed the plains to California, prospecting; returned in 1852, and engaged in the brewery business at St. Louis, Milwaukee and Ft. Atkinson and, in 1858, came to this county and erected the brewery now conducted by himself; also owns forty acres of land and is doing a fair business. Married Mary Kuthar who was born in Germany in 1834; they have six children - Josephine, Aimer, Katy, George, Charles and Laura, twins.

1878 History of Fayette Co. Iowa - Auburn Township
Page 749