SCHWIND, Benjamin J.

SCHWIND, Benjamin J. (Dubuque, IA, Aug. 1, 1869-Dubuque, IA, Jan. 1926). Assistant secretary and treasurer, DUBUQUE BREWING AND MALTING COMPANY. Schwind and his brother John W. SCHWIND purchased the Tschirgi and Schwind Brewery and reorganized it as the Western Brewery. In 1892 this firm merged with three others to form Dubuque Brewing and Malting Company. Benjamin Schwind, cashier and supervisor of the shipping department before becoming a director in 1906, was then elected assistant secretary and treasurer.

Schwind also served as a director of the GERMAN TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK, vice-president of the Dubuque Automobile and Garage Company, and later the UNION TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK as cashier and director.

Benjamin J. Schwind, assistant secretary and treasurer of the Dubuque Brewing and Malting Company since 1908, was born in Dubuque county, Iowa. August i, 1869, a son of the old pioneers, Jacob and Maria Schwind, appropriate mention of whom is made elsewhere in this publication. He was educated in the local w^ard and high schools, leaving the latter in his sixteenth year, and for a time thereafter was bookkeeper for Eulberg Brothers, brewers, at Portage, Wisconsin. He subsequently returned to Dubuque and became a bookkeeper in the Tschirgi & Schwind Brewery, remain- ing thus employed until he and his brother purchased the above named concern, which they reorganized as the Western Brewing Company, and conducted successfully until the consolidation of four local breweries. This was in 1892. Mr. Schwind was cashier and had charge of the shipping department of the new organiza- tion, and in 1906 became a director and was elected assistant sec- retary and treasurer, which position he has held ever since. He is also a director of the German Trust and Savings Bank, vice- president of the Dubuque Automobile and Garage Company, secre- tary and treasurer of the East Dubuque Supply Company, and treasurer of the Dubuque Realty Company.