Louis Englert
1810-1892
Company Muster-in Roll
Roll dated Muscatine, Iowa, Dec. 15, 1862.
Where born: Germany
Age 51 years
Occupation Farmer
When enlisted Nov. 1, 1862
For what period enlisted: 3 years
Mustered out: May 24, 1865
Eyes Hazel
Hair Gray
Complexion Dark
Height 5 ft. 5 ½ in.
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Historical Stories about Iowa City Vol. 2 by Irving B.
Weber, Pg. 204: When Louis Englert arrived in Iowa City
in 1842, he gave $75 for the lot where the brewery, and later the wood
and ice business. He first built a frame building 30 feet by 40 feet
for $450. He married Clara Kempfer of Iowa City in 1843, and first
lived in the frame structure. They were the parents of nine children.
The brewery structure on the same site, was a stone building 20 feet
by 36 feet, with a basement under the entire building. Englert operated
the brewery from 1853 to 1877. Production at the outset was 10 barrels
a day, using a Brobdingnagian kettle of brass, in the modestly equipped
plant.
Englert shut down the brewery during the Civil War while serving as
a member of "the Greybeards."
He sold the brewery to his son John J., and his son-in-law, Frank
Rittenmeyer, in 1877. Englert and Rittenmeyer operated the brewery
until 1883 when it was sold, and according to an unconfirmed report, to John
Dostal, who had other brewery interests in the city at the time.
Englert then started the Englert Wood and Ice Company at the same location.
The present Fred Pownall home, 1602 N. Dubuque St. just north of the
Mayflower Apartments, was built by Louis Englert in 1857, 120 years ago.
The home is still in excellent condition and well maintained.
The house served first, as a stage coach stop, a hotel with dining
room and saloon. The Pownalls still have the recreation room which
once as a tavern.
Historical Stories
about Iowa City Vol. 2 by Irving B. Weber, Pg. 252:
Louis Englert, the first of the Englert family, arrived in Iowa City
from Bavaria, Germany in 1842. The same year he gave $75 for the 319
Market Street lot, where a brewery and then later a ice and wood business
stood. Englert married Clara Kempfer of Iowa City in 1843, and they
lived at this location first. He started the brewery in 1853, and sold
it in 1877 to his son and son-in-law.
In 1857, he built what is now the Fred Pownall home at 1602 N. Debuque
Street, a beautiful, well-constructed house to this day. It was the
family home (the Englerts had nine children), and in its earlier years
also served as a stagecoach stop, an inn, a saloon, and served meals to
stage passengers.
Englert constructed a large ice storage barn at the North Debuque
Street house, and cut and stored ice from the Iowa River in front of
the house. It was there the family started in the ice business, later
moving to the Market Street location .
Three generations of the family were in the ice and wood business.
In 1912, one of the third generation, William Englert, who also ran
"Little Dutch Hall", left the ice business to build and operate the
Englert theater, playing some of the great talent in show business.
Today it is a movie theater.
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