Adolphus Busch

The “King of Brewers”, oddly enough, was not really a brewer at all: he was a super-salesman, and perhaps the greatest ever heard of in America. Granted that he knew good beer and ever sought after it, the fact remains that he did not know how to make it at all. In the same course of time he found men who did, but that was a mere detail. He sold the bad almost as efficiently …showed first 75 words of 1119 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1119 total…Rhine that he had named for his wife. His burial was in St. Louis, the scene of his best accomplishments, as he had directed. There, the townsfolk were one in mourning this merchant prince. There was never before of since a funeral like his. Six thousand employees marched in line and twenty-five trucks were required to transport the floral tributes. The Kaiser sent his personal representative and the President of the United States his condolences.