Alameda County Biographies

GEORGE KIRCHNER

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	George Kirchner, a partner in the firm of Kirchner & Mante, representatives in Oakland 
of the Seattle Brewing & Malting Company of Seattle, Washington, was born at Vertheim, Germany, 
January 22, 1868, a son of Fritz Kirchner. He was a public school pupil to the age of fourteen 
years and then came to the United States in 1882, settling in San Francisco, where he served 
an apprenticeship with Lang Brothers, bottlers, with whom he remained for two years. He was 
afterward employed in various bottling establishments until 1888, when he entered the employ 
of the Buffalo Bottling Company at Oakland, with which he continued as bottler for five years. 
He then entered the bottling business on his own account, and soon afterward entered into a 
partnership with F. Mante under the firm style of Kirchner & Mante. They represent the Seattle 
Brewing & Malting Company of Seattle, the largest brewery on the Pacific coast, in a business 
which has been constantly growing and which has won them a substantial measure of success.
	In Oakland in 1893 Mr. Kirchner was married to Miss Dora Lueddeke, and they have four 
children, Helen, Minna Dora, Fritz and George. Mr. Kirchner belongs to the Merchants' Exchange 
and the Chamber of Commerce, and also holds membership in the Eintracht, the Sons of Herman, 
the Eagles, the Oakland Turnverein and the Loyal Order of Moose. He has never had occasion to 
regret his determination to come to the new world, for here he found the business opportunities 
which he sought and in their improvement has made steady advancement.

Past & Present of Alameda County, California � Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 1914, p. 107