LOUIS KRUMB
Proprietor - Krumb's Brewery
Bio-Pen Pictures
SURNAMES: SCHULTZ,
Louis Krumb, proprietor of Krumb’s Brewery, Nos. 76 to 86 South Second Street, San Jose, was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, in 1836. He remained in his native city, attending college, and afterward learning the brewing business. At seventeen years of age he came to America, spending a year in different parts of the Eastern States. In 1854 he came to San Francisco, and worked in the brewing business there and in Sacramento until the fall of 1855, when he started a brewery in Alameda, which he removed in 1856 to San Jose, where he has conducted it ever since. When he started his brewery it had a capacity of four barrels per day, while now it has a capacity of twenty-five barrels per day. His market is mostly in Santa Clara County.
He was married, in
1857, to Miss Wilhelmina Schultz, a native of Hamburg, Germany. They have three
children living: Augusta, still occupying the paternal home; Justus Edward, now
the Deputy Treasurer of the State of California; and Frederic Louis, engaged in
the manufacture of candy in San Jose. Mr. Krumb has a small orchard in Alameda
in bearing. He is a member of the Chosen Friends, and the first Past Chief
Councillor in the county; also a member of the Red Men, of which he is Past
Grand Oler-Chief of the State of California. He was elected in 1873 to the City
Council of San Jose, where he served a term of two years. He is a Democrat, and
prominent in the councils, having been for the past ten years a member of the
Democratic County Central Committee and for the last six years treasurer of that
committee. He believes in a modified tariff. Mr. Krumb was connected with the
Volunteer Fire Department of San Jose from 1857 until it became a paid
department, and for four years was foreman of Empire Steam Fire Engine Company,
No. 1.
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.
Pg. 387-388
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
Proofread by Betty Vickroy