Geise, Conrad

GEISE

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Date: 10/10/2006 at 14:26:07

Conrad Geise

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.23, Council Bluffs)
Conrad Geise, brewery, Council Bluffs, came to Council Bluffs in 1858; began building a malt house in 1867,and, in 1868, built a large brewery. He erected a new malt house in 1877, and uses the old one for an ice house. He employs from twenty to twenty-five men, and has from eight to ten work horses. His yearly sales amount to about 15,000 barrels. He was born in Germany in 1842, and came direct to this city in 1858. Mr. Geise was married in Council Bluffs, and in 1864, and has a family of four boys and one girl. His mother, who is now sixty-four years of age, resides with him. In 1882, he added another story to his brewery, in which he malts from 50,000 to 60,000 bushels of barley annually. He gets his hops from New York. He owns thirty acres of land adjacent to his buildings.