Johann Martin Weber, known as Martin, was born in 1830 in Schwarzenberg, a village on the edge of the Black Forest in what is now southwestern Germany. Martin was the seventh child of Martin Weber and Barbara Schwenker and one of only three who lived to adulthood. His mother came into the marriage with another son named Frederick Durr. Martin emigrated to the Unites States in 1856 and settled in Moline, Illinois. Frederick Durr and Martin's sister Barbara Weber emigrated about the same time.
Martin Weber married Gertrude Turck in 1861 in Moline. They had three children.
Martin ran Moline's first brewery out of a building next to his house, which occupied a long lot on Second Avenue near Seventeenth Street. How Martin came to learn the brewer's craft is unknown. His father was a master weaver, and there were no close relatives in the beer business. Martin may have apprenticed in a brewery back in Germany. In any case he was good enough at the business to earn a solid living.
In the fall of 1873, when he felt his health was failing, Martin sold out and announced that he was taking a long vacation in Europe with his wife and her 16-year-old niece, Mary Bertges. The party planned to take the train to New York, then sail to Hamburg, touring England, France, Germany and Italy before returning home the next summer. On the eve of the journey, however, Martin fell ill and succumbed to what was then called "nervous prostration." He was just 43 years old. Many friends from the Concordia and German School Societies, of which Martin was a member, attended his funeral.
Martin Weber married Gertrude Turck in 1861 in Moline. They had three children.
Martin ran Moline's first brewery out of a building next to his house, which occupied a long lot on Second Avenue near Seventeenth Street. How Martin came to learn the brewer's craft is unknown. His father was a master weaver, and there were no close relatives in the beer business. Martin may have apprenticed in a brewery back in Germany. In any case he was good enough at the business to earn a solid living.
In the fall of 1873, when he felt his health was failing, Martin sold out and announced that he was taking a long vacation in Europe with his wife and her 16-year-old niece, Mary Bertges. The party planned to take the train to New York, then sail to Hamburg, touring England, France, Germany and Italy before returning home the next summer. On the eve of the journey, however, Martin fell ill and succumbed to what was then called "nervous prostration." He was just 43 years old. Many friends from the Concordia and German School Societies, of which Martin was a member, attended his funeral.
Johann Martin Weber, known as Martin, was born in 1830 in Schwarzenberg, a village on the edge of the Black Forest in what is now southwestern Germany. Martin was the seventh child of Martin Weber and Barbara Schwenker and one of only three who lived to adulthood. His mother came into the marriage with another son named Frederick Durr. Martin emigrated to the Unites States in 1856 and settled in Moline, Illinois. Frederick Durr and Martin's sister Barbara Weber emigrated about the same time.
Martin Weber married Gertrude Turck in 1861 in Moline. They had three children.
Martin ran Moline's first brewery out of a building next to his house, which occupied a long lot on Second Avenue near Seventeenth Street. How Martin came to learn the brewer's craft is unknown. His father was a master weaver, and there were no close relatives in the beer business. Martin may have apprenticed in a brewery back in Germany. In any case he was good enough at the business to earn a solid living.
In the fall of 1873, when he felt his health was failing, Martin sold out and announced that he was taking a long vacation in Europe with his wife and her 16-year-old niece, Mary Bertges. The party planned to take the train to New York, then sail to Hamburg, touring England, France, Germany and Italy before returning home the next summer. On the eve of the journey, however, Martin fell ill and succumbed to what was then called "nervous prostration." He was just 43 years old. Many friends from the Concordia and German School Societies, of which Martin was a member, attended his funeral.
Martin Weber married Gertrude Turck in 1861 in Moline. They had three children.
Martin ran Moline's first brewery out of a building next to his house, which occupied a long lot on Second Avenue near Seventeenth Street. How Martin came to learn the brewer's craft is unknown. His father was a master weaver, and there were no close relatives in the beer business. Martin may have apprenticed in a brewery back in Germany. In any case he was good enough at the business to earn a solid living.
In the fall of 1873, when he felt his health was failing, Martin sold out and announced that he was taking a long vacation in Europe with his wife and her 16-year-old niece, Mary Bertges. The party planned to take the train to New York, then sail to Hamburg, touring England, France, Germany and Italy before returning home the next summer. On the eve of the journey, however, Martin fell ill and succumbed to what was then called "nervous prostration." He was just 43 years old. Many friends from the Concordia and German School Societies, of which Martin was a member, attended his funeral.
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