Michael Schiml
Michael Schiml, brewer, Dayton, was born in Reglasreuth, near Baireuth, Bavaria, Germany, August 4, 1825, and is the son of Christopher and Mary (Kramer) Schiml, natives of the same place. His father was a prominent mill owner, a man of means and commercial standing, who died about 1842. Michael was the youngest in a family of eight children, five of whom died previous to his coming to America, wither his brother John had preceeded him in 1845. Michael with his mother and one sister, following in 1848, all settling in Montgomery County, Ohio, where the aged mother died soon after reaching this county. Mr. Schiml was married, September 12, 1848, to Miss Annie M. Heindl, a native of Bavaria, and a daughter of John and Frederica Heindl, who remained in the fatherland. Of this union eight children are the fruits, as follows: Teresa, John L., Joseph (deceased), Susan, Andrew, Cidonia (deceased), Aloys C. and one died in infancy. Mr. Schiml worked at coopering in this county until1852, when in partnership with his brother John, they started a brewery on the corner of Wayne and Hickory streets, making their first lager beer on December 13 of that year, from stock brought from Boston, by a cousin of the Schiml's who was a brewer, this being the first lager beer made in Montgomery County, Ohio. His brother, John, died September 5, 1858, since which time the business has been owned and operated by our subject, who ranks as the pioneer brewer of Dayton, and whose success in his line has been second to none. Beginning upon a capital of $1,800, he has by constant attention to his business, and the manufacture of as good an article of beer as other first-class brewers, increased his sales yearly, and thereby his finincial standing up to today, he takes his place among the wealthy men of the Miami Valley, being worth over $75,000, all the legitimate result of his own indefatigable will to win success. His son, John L., is the book-keeper of the establishment, and Andrew attends to the outside business, it being the intention of Mr. Schiml to retire from active life in a short time, leaving the management of his brewery to his sons, who are thoroughly competent of immitating their father's success in life.
From History of Montgomery County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1882