Alameda County Biographies

GEORGE ROEHM

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        George Roehm is the president of the Independent Brewing Company of 
Oakland, which he organized on the 1st of November, 1911. His birth occurred in 
Wittenburg, Germany, on the 18th of November, 1872, his parents being David and 
Margaret Roehm. He attended the public schools until fourteen years of age and 
subsequently served an apprenticeship in a brewery, being employed therein until 
he had attained his majority. At the age of twenty-one he emigrated to the 
United States and located in San Francisco, California, where he was employed as 
a brewer in the South San Francisco Brewery until February, 1899. He then came 
to Oakland and was here engaged as brewer with the Anchor Brewery until November 
1, 1911, when he organized the Independent Brewing Company, of which he has 
since remained the president. Success has come to him in large measure and has 
won him recognition among the prosperous and representative business men of the 
city. He is a valued member of the Brewer Masters Association.
        On the 8th of September, 1900, in Wittenburg, Germany, Mr. Roehm was 
united in marriage to Miss Caroline Neu, by whom he has two children, George and 
Fred, who are twelve and nine years of age respectively and are attending the 
public schools. He gives his political allegiance to the republican party and 
belongs to the Schwaben Verein, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Foresters. 
Mr. Roehm is a man of many sterling traits of character, reliable in business 
and progressive in citizenship, and has gained the confidence, good-will and 
esteem of all who have been in any way associated with him.
 
Past & Present of Alameda County, California � Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 
1914, p. 126