Frederick Yuengling
{{Short description|American businessman (1848-1899)}}
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| name = Frederick G. Yuengling
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| birth_date = January 26, 1848
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| citizenship = United States
| education = Pennsylvania State College; Manhattan Business School
| known_for = D. G. Yuengling & Son second president
| spouse = Minna Dohrman Yuengling
| children = 2, including Frank D. Yuengling
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Frederick Yuengling ({{IPAc-en|audio=Yuengling.ogg|ˈ|j|ɪ|ŋ|l|ɪ|ŋ}} {{Respell|YING|ling}}) (January 26, 1848 – January 2, 1899) was an American businessman and the second president and owner of America's oldest brewery, D. G. Yuengling & Son.
Personal life
Frederick Yuengling was born to David Yuengling and Elizabeth (née Betz) Yuengling on January 26, 1848.{{Where|date=August 2023}} He attended Pennsylvania State College and then the Manhattan Business School in Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1871, his father sent him to Europe to learn more about brewing, where he studied in Munich, Stuttgart and Vienna.{{cite book|last=Noon|first=Mark A.|title=Yuengling: A History of America's Oldest Brewery|date=2005|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786486595|page=49}}
Yuengling married Minna Dohrman of Brooklyn, New York, on April 3, 1873. Minna was from the "uppermost social class" in New York and enjoyed the mannered social scene in Pennsylvania. The newlyweds purchased a townhouse on Mahantongo Street, a street known for its "opulence" at the time. The house had six bedrooms, formal living rooms, formal dining rooms, a music room, tiled entryways, a Spanish crystal chandelier and German stained-glass windows.Noon. p. 50 On one occasion, Yuengling took a group of friends to Europe on a grand tour and then back to New York City without allowing them "to spend a cent". On the top floor of the Yuengling brewery there was a famous room where Yuengling entertained his friends on a lavish scale.Noon. p. 82 Yuengling and his wife had two children. Frank D. Yuengling was born September 27, 1876. Daughter Edith Louise Yuengling followed on March 18, 1878; she died on October 6, 1883, at 5 years old. This left son Frank as the sole heir of his parents.Noon. p. 51
On January 3, 1899, the New York Times announced that Yuengling had died of pneumonia the day previously.{{cite news|title=Frederick G. Yuengling Dead|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1899/01/03/102530718.pdf|accessdate=26 March 2014|newspaper=New York Times|date=3 January 1899}} Yuengling was almost aged 51 at the time of his death. The New York Times had routinely covered Yuengling during his life.{{cite news|title=Wanted For Assault|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/01/26/106811548.pdf|accessdate=1 April 2014|newspaper=New York Times|date=26 January 1893}}{{cite news|title=Yuengling A Defendant|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/04/04/106818465.pdf|accessdate=1 April 2014|newspaper=New York Times|date=4 April 1893}}{{cite news|title=TWO HURT IN RUNAWAY.; Sinclair Tousey and Frederick Yuengling Thrown from a Wagon.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/10/30/102628542.pdf|accessdate=1 April 2014|newspaper=New York Times|date=30 October 1901}}
Business
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In 1873, Yuengling joined his father at the brewery, where the business name was changed from D.G. Yuengling to D.G. Yuengling & Son.{{cite book|last=Musson|first=Robert A.|title=D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc.|date=2013|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9781439642085}}
Yuengling was vice president of the Schuylkill Electric Railway Company, which started 1889.{{cite book|last=Wiley|first=Samuel T.|title=Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania: Comprising a Historical Sketch of the County|date=1893|publisher=Windmill Publications|page=159}} He also served as the president of the Pottsville Gas Company, a position that his father had held as well. He was also director of the Pottsville Water Company and of the safety deposit box, both positions that had previously belonged to his father.{{cite web|title=David Gottlieb Yuengling (1808-1877)|url=http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=192|publisher=Immigrant Entrepreneurship|accessdate=26 March 2014}}
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Category:American people of German descent
Category:People from Pottsville, Pennsylvania
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