GEORGE A. BOHRER
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GEORGE A. BOHRER
Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, pg. 485
Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888
GEORGE A. BOHRER, of the firm of Newman & Bohrer, proprietors of the Spring Brewery, Lafayette, is a native of Bavaria, Germany, born near Zweibrucken on the 27th of December, 1819, a son of VALENTINE and SOPHIA Bohrer. He was left an orphan at a very early age, his mother dying when he was an infant, and his father when he was but eight years of age. He was reared in his native country until eleven years old, when he came to America with his brothers and sisters, they settling in Cincinnati, Ohio. He grew to manhood in Cincinnati, receiving his education in the schools of that city, and afterward learned the shoemaker's trade. Later he engaged in the grocery business with a relative, and was thus employed about six years, awhen he sold his interest in the business, and for nearly two years kept a hotel. He then turned his attention to the livery and undertaking business, which he followed until 1871 when he sold out, and in 1872 came to Lafayette. The same year he bought the interest of DIETRICH HERBERT, who was until then associated with MR. NEWMAN in the Spring Brewery, under the name Newman & Herbert, when the present firm of Newman & Bohrer was established. In his political affiliations MR. BOHRER is a Democrat.
Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888
GEORGE A. BOHRER, of the firm of Newman & Bohrer, proprietors of the Spring Brewery, Lafayette, is a native of Bavaria, Germany, born near Zweibrucken on the 27th of December, 1819, a son of VALENTINE and SOPHIA Bohrer. He was left an orphan at a very early age, his mother dying when he was an infant, and his father when he was but eight years of age. He was reared in his native country until eleven years old, when he came to America with his brothers and sisters, they settling in Cincinnati, Ohio. He grew to manhood in Cincinnati, receiving his education in the schools of that city, and afterward learned the shoemaker's trade. Later he engaged in the grocery business with a relative, and was thus employed about six years, awhen he sold his interest in the business, and for nearly two years kept a hotel. He then turned his attention to the livery and undertaking business, which he followed until 1871 when he sold out, and in 1872 came to Lafayette. The same year he bought the interest of DIETRICH HERBERT, who was until then associated with MR. NEWMAN in the Spring Brewery, under the name Newman & Herbert, when the present firm of Newman & Bohrer was established. In his political affiliations MR. BOHRER is a Democrat.