Adolph Kamm and Nicholas Schellinger — the brother-in-law brewery

the purchase 1870 · incorporated 1883 · the house brewed to 1951

The founding, placed exactly: The brewery ground was another man's founding first: John Wagner built the first brewery structures in 1853 — the period company account dates the establishment itself to 1850, and both datings stand in the Businesses section. In 1870 the brewery was purchased by Adolph Kamm and Clemens Dick, who came to it from Toledo, Ohio — the firm of Dick and Kamm. Dick disposed of his interest and Kamm took in his brother-in-law Nicholas Schellinger: in 1880 on the company account, 1879 on the brewery-trade timeline, both printed. Schellinger, born 4 November 1847 at Muehlheim, was the son of a wealthy miller, emigrated in 1870, settled in Mishawaka, and married Amelia Kamm in 1874 — imported milling wealth joined to the brewery by marriage before it was joined by partnership. Kamm himself, born 13 June 1842 at Zöbingen and brought to America at eight, was the house's president for its founding generation.

The incorporation, and the family in the offices: The firm of Kamm & Schellinger was incorporated in 1883 with a capital of $65,000 — Adolph Kamm president, Nicholas Schellinger treasurer, and the president's daughter Laura Kamm secretary, a woman in the corporate record of an Indiana brewery in 1883, carried at her full size in the Women Founders entry below. A third Kamm worked the kettles: Rudolph Kamm, foreman and brewmaster, "regarded as one of the best master brewers in the state" in the period account. Output stood at about 30,000 barrels a year in the period account of about 1901; the plant's rated capacity stood at 150,000 barrels in 1937 and 1939, five times the Pilsner years' account. The house survived Prohibition on cereal beverages and root beer, brewed again from 1933, and closed in 1951 on the marker, Register, and trade-timeline record — 1952 on the Tribune's 1993 retrospective, both printed in the Businesses section. Who presided over the house after the founding generation — the succession between Adolph Kamm's presidency and the Kamm & Schellinger Company of the repeal years — is not documented in the record reached, and is named in the closing entry.

Sources:

1. Businesses & Banks — "Kamm & Schellinger — the brewery" (Wagner's 1853 structures against the 1850 establishment; the 1870 purchase by Kamm and Dick; the Schellinger association at 1880 vs 1879; the 1883 incorporation at $65,000 with its officers — Adolph Kamm president, Nicholas Schellinger treasurer, Laura Kamm secretary, Rudolph Kamm brewmaster; the partners' Württemberg origins; output and capacity figures; the end carried 1951 vs 1952).
2. Great Fortunes — "The Kamm Money" (Part Two) — Schellinger as a wealthy miller's son, married to Amelia Kamm in 1874; the family's continuity to the 1993 label-revival consideration.