Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Klemmert, Gustave 1845 - July 15, 1891
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

GUSTAVE KLEMMERT, 
deceased, was born at Burgsinn, province of Bavaria, in the united German
empire, in 1845.  He was reared in his native place and obtained his
education in the common schools there.  After leaving school he learned the
trades of cooper and brewer, and continued to work at the brewery business in
his native land until 1868, when he bid farewell to home and friends and
started alone for the new world, determined to establish himself in the great
republic, whose fame had reached him in his childhood's home, and had
wonderfully interwoven itself with his growing aspirations and plans for the
future.  He arrived in New York a stranger and without money, but soon
obtained employment in a brewery in that city, and worked at his trade there
until 1870.  In that year he came to Altoona, this county, and obtained a
position with Martin Hoelle, proprietor of the Altoona brewery, with whom he
remained until 1873.  He then formed a partnership with John Stehle, of this
city, and purchased the Eagle brewery, located at the corner of Thirteenth
street and Fourth avenue, which they operated for one year.  At the end of
that time Mr. Kleminert bought out his partner's interest in the enterprise,
and afterward conducted the business in his own name.  He remodeled and
improved the brewery building until it became almost a new structure, and
added such machinery and facilities as were needed to make it first-class in
every respect.  It has a yearly capacity of between five thousand and six
thousand barrels.  Mr. Klemmert also remodeled and completed the residence
adjoining the brewery.  He successfully conducted the brewery business until
his death, July 15, 1891, at which time he was in the forty-sixth year of his
age.  He was a member of the German Catholic church, and a straight democrat
in politics.  He served for four years as chief of the fire department in
Altoona, and as treasurer of that department until his death.
On February 7, 1876, he was married to Mrs. Fredericka (Theurer) Schmitt, of
the city of Altoona.  She was born at Altenstaig, Wurtemberg, Germany, in
1839, and came to the United States with her father, Michael Theurer, when
only thirteen years of age.  She lived at Tyrone, this county, until 1861,
when she removed to Altoona, and was married here in 1893 to John Schmitt, of
this city.  He died in 1872, leaving three children, of whom two are yet
living: John H., who is now assisting his mother in running the brewery; and
Renette, who married Emil Thieme, of this city.  Mrs. Klemmert is a member of
the German Lutheran church.  She had no children by her last marriage.

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