Henry Weinhard
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| Born | February 18, 1830 Kingdom of Württemberg |
| Died | September 20, 1904 (aged 74) Portland, Oregon |
| Occupation | Founder of Henry Weinhard's |
| Spouse(s) | Louisa Wagenblast |
Henry Weinhard (February 18, 1830 – September 20, 1904) was a German-American brewer in the state of Oregon. After immigrating to the United States in 1851, he lived in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and California before settling in the Portland, Oregon, area. He worked for others in the beer business before buying his own brewery and founded Henry Weinhard's and built the Weinhard Brewery Complex in downtown Portland.
Henry Weinhard was born in the Kingdom of Württemberg (now part of Baden-Württemberg in Germany) on February 18, 1830. Raised in Lindenbronn, he later moved to nearby Stuttgart where he was an apprentice in the brewing trade. In 1851, he immigrated to the United States, landing in New York City. Weinhard moved to Philadelphia where he worked for a year in the brewing business before moving west to Cincinnati, Ohio. After two years there he moved west again to St. Louis, Missouri, where he stayed until 1856. During this time in America he worked as a brewer for others while preparing his own beer recipes.
In 1856, Weinhard moved to California and settled briefly in Sacramento. The next year in March he relocated to Vancouver in what was then the Washington Territory where he began working at a brewery owned by John Meunich and helped construct a new brewery. Weinhard worked there for six months and then founded a brewery with George Bottler across the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon. This partnership did not last long and he sold out to Bottler and returned to working for Meunich. In 1859, Weinhard bought Meunich’s business and named it the Vancouver Brewery.
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