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Charles Elmer Hires

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Charles Elmer Hires Famous memorial

Birth
Elsinboro, Salem County, New Jersey, USA
Death
31 Jul 1937 (aged 85)
Haverford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.0203266, Longitude: -75.2275349
Plot
Valleyview Section, Lot 41
Memorial ID
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Businessman. He developed and helped popularize root beer, which flourished after being presented in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the 1876 Centennial Exposition. He founded the Hires Root Beer Company, which still exists to the present day.
Businessman. He developed and helped popularize root beer, which flourished after being presented in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the 1876 Centennial Exposition. He founded the Hires Root Beer Company, which still exists to the present day.


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  • Maintained by: Find a Grave
  • Added: Apr 25, 1998
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/485/charles_elmer-hires: accessed ), memorial page for Charles Elmer Hires (19 Aug 1851–31 Jul 1937), Find a Grave Memorial ID 485, citing Westminster Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.