The succession: the second Kamm generation, and the officers the record does not name

1930 — 1951

The founder's death, mid-drought: Adolph Kamm died at Mishawaka on 16 December 1930, in the cemetery record of St. Joseph's — in the middle of the dry years, when the company he had founded sixty years before was a maker of soda and cereal beverage, and three years before it would brew again. Nicholas Schellinger's death is not in the record this section reached. The founding generation thus leaves the record the way it entered it, unevenly: the president's grave transcribed, the treasurer's course after the incorporation unprinted in every source reached, and both men's fuller family record standing in the Founders & CEOs and Wealth sections.

The second generation, at the strength the record gives: The house remained a Kamm house to the end. Adolph X. Kamm, the president's son by Josephine Schellinger — a Schellinger's son carrying the Kamm name, the two lines merged in one man — was born 26 July 1889 and died 30 March 1947, four years before the brewery closed; the cemetery record that carries his dates does not style him an officer, and this section does not promote him to one. Rudolph Kamm the brewmaster and Laura Kamm the secretary of 1883 are documented as brewery figures into the 1920s, named for the house among the South Bend Watch Company's investors. Beyond those names, the record reached does not go: who presided over Kamm & Schellinger from Adolph Kamm's death in 1930 to the close in 1951 — through Repeal, the expansion, and the end — is not in any source this section reached. The gap is printed as a work order, not a shrug: the settling records are the Mishawaka city directories' officer lines for the company, which the public library's directory run carries year by year, and the South Bend Tribune's obituary and business record for the Kamm and Schellinger families. A history that cannot name the last president of its flagship brewery says so, and this one does.

Sources:

1. St. Joseph's Cemetery, Mishawaka, burial transcription (INGenWeb) — Adolph Kamm Sr., died 16 December 1930; Adolph X. Kamm (26 July 1889 — 30 March 1947), son of Adolph and Josephine (Schellinger) Kamm.
2. The History Museum (South Bend), A Bend in Time, Series 02-08 — Rudolph and Laura Kamm named for the brewery among the South Bend Watch Company's investors of the 1920s.