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History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Western Historical Company, Chicago - 1883

Page 340-341

   FRANK KNIVEL, proprietor of Knivel Brewery, established
 in 1855.  The brewery has a capacity for the manufacture of 1,200
 barrels per year, two-thirds of which is bottled.  Mr. KNIVEL was
 born in Prussia; came to America in 1850, and directly to Lake Supe-
 rior; spent four years in the employ of various mining companies,
 and in 1854 located at Eagle River, and the following year he com-
 pleted his brewery and put it in operation, and has continued the
 business to this date (1882), making his one of the oldest established
 breweries on the lake; he was married in Detroit, July, 1856, to Miss
 SOPHIA NOECK, who is also a native of Prussia.  The have two sons
 and three daughters.

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