FREDERIC W. KUNZ

FREDERICKSBURG BREWING COMPANY
San Jose

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            Frederic W. Kunz, of the Wholesale and Retail Bottling Agency of the Fredericksburg Brewing Company, No. 135 West Santa Clara Street, San Jose, has been in business in San Jose for eleven years.  He was born in Hesse, Germany, in 1848, where he received his education in the public schools, and then learned the trade of cabinet-maker.  At the age of seventeen years he decided to cast his fortunes in America, arriving in New York in 1865, just at the close of the Rebellion.  He remained in New York State about eleven years, during which time he worked at his trade of cabinet-making six months in Texas.  In 1877 he came to California by way of Panama, on which trip he was wrecked on the steamer San Francisco between Panama and Acapulco.  The passengers were rescued in life-boats, coming on the next steamer to San Francisco.  He came immediately to San Jose, where he has since remained.  He has, by his careful work in bottling the Fredericksburg beer, and by the completeness of all the details of his cellar, built up quite a reputation for these goods, while his personal integrity has made him popular and given him a large trade.  Mr. Kunz was married, in 1871, to Miss Frederika Meyer, a native of Hanover, Germany. They have no children.  He is a member of the Allemania Lodge, No. 178, I. O. O. F., of San Jose, and also a member of the San Jose Turnverein.  He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, and was elected Major in the Uniform Rank.

Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1888.
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Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
Proofread by Betty Vickroy