Adolphus Zimmermann

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rdf:langString Adolphus (or Adolph) Zimmermann (February 23, 1812 – July 15, 1891) was an American brewer and politician from Mequon, Wisconsin. Born in the village of Noschkowitz outside Ostrau in the Kingdom of Saxony, Zimmermann emigrated to the United States. He landed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory on August 1, 1839; two days later, he married Fredericka Opitz (who had emigrated from Saxony on the same vessel on which he came, along with her brother, mother, father, and sister-in-law); one week later they settled on Section 22 of the Town of Mequon, where they purchased 160 acres of land (the Opitzes buying lots nearby) near the Green Bay Road. They lived there until 1855, when they sold the farm and moved into the Village of Mequon. From 1857 to 1876, he ran what was later called the Mequon Brewery, making lager beer, at first in partnership with his brother-in-law William F. Opitz, later by himself. In 1856, he was a member of the Astrea Masonic Lodge in Port Washington.