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Historic Beer Birthday: Ebenezer Beadleston 

March 27, 2025 By Jay Brooks

Today is the birthday of Ebenezer Beadleston (March 27, 1803-November 12, 1889). He was born in New York, and ran his father-in-law’s brewery, eventually taking it over with a partner and calling it the Beadleston and Woerz Brewery, although it traded under the name Empire Brewery. It remained in business until 1920, when Prohibition closed it for good.

The Beadleston and Woerz Brewery

Here’s a short biography from his Find-a-Grave page:

Ebenezer Beadleston was born in Queensbury, New York. In 1846 his father-in-law, Abraham Nash hired him to manage the Manhattan branch his thriving Troy New York brewery. The brewery was called Empire Brewery of New York City. Later Beadleston and partner Ernest G. W. Woerz, grew the brewery into one of the largest such concerns in the country. Ebenezer Beadleston died on the 12th of November, 1889. His brewery lived on for another 30 years, finally done in, in 1920, by National Prohibition.

Here’s his obituary from The Post Star, November 14, 1889, reprinted from The Sun the day before.

And here’s his obituary from the Baltimore Sun:

And this one is from The Evening World:

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