Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Hoelle, Martin February 4, 1840 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

MARTIN HOELLE,
proprietor of the large brewery in Altoona, which occupies the square between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, on Fifteenth avenue, is a son of John and
Kate (Seivert) Hoelle, and was born in Hohenzollern, Prussia, February 4,
1840.  His parents were both natives of that place, and both died in that
country - his father in 1881, aged seventy-two years, and his mother in
January, 1889, aged eighty-four.  His father was a blacksmith by trade, and a
member of the Catholic church.
   Martin Hoelle grew to manhood in his native land, and was educated in the
public schools there.  After leaving school he served an apprenticeship at
the machinist trade, and worked at that business in the Fatherland until
1865, when he emigrated to America and located in the city of Altoona,
Pennsylvania.  Here he has since resided.  During the first six months of his
residence in this city he worked at his trade in the employ of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and then embarked in the brewery business in a
small way, becoming in time one of the largest operators in that line in
central Pennsylvania.  He has continued this business to the present time,
and now owns a fine and thoroughly equipped brewery, extending from
Thirteenth to Fourteenth street, on Fifteenth avenue, with a capacity of ten
thousand barrels of beer per year.  In 1886 he erected the large and
beautiful brick building in which he now resides, located near the brewery. 
   In November, 1866, Mr. Hoelle was married to Matilda Endress, of this
city.  He is a member of the Roman Catholic church, and in politics occupies
an independent position.  He served one term in the common council.  He now
owns considerable real estate in this city, although he came here a poor man,
and may therefore be regarded as a self-made man, and entitled to all the
credit which such an achievement deserves.

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