From: Newark, New Jersey's Greatest Manufacturing
Centre, Illustrated (1894)
In Looking over the field of the many commercial and manufacturing
enterprises which have contributed largely to Newark's importance
as a great and leading business centre we cannot fail to be impressed
with the widespread extent and scope of the brewing interests. This
branch of industry is conducted on an extensive scale and is represented
by none better than the old established and widely known Lyon &
Sons' Brewing Company.
The special brews of this company are held in high favor and popularity
throughout the state of New Jersey, the heavy demand for them taxing
the producing capacity of the brewery to its fullest extent. The
business was started in 1864 by Mr. D. M. Lyon on the same site
now occupied by the company's present splendid plant. (Old
Newark Note: The company was bought in 1864 by Mr. D. M.
Lyon from the Frielinghaus and Rumpf Brewing Company). Mr. Lyon
carried on the business single-handed for three years with signal
success. In 1867 he admitted his son William H. as a partner, whose
youthful energy greatly lightened the ever increasing burden of
the management. Until the year 1882 the style of the firm was D.
M. Lyon & Son. In that year Mr. C. D. Lyon was taken in and
the firm was known as D. M. Lyon & Sons. Finally in 1890, with
a view to still further enlarge the scope of the rapidly thriving
business, the concern was incorporated under the state laws of New
Jersey, with a capital of $300,00, and assumed its present style
-- The Lyon & Son's Brewing Company. Mr W. H. Lyon was made
president; L. C. Yon, vice-president; C. D. Lyon, secretary and
treasurer, while Mr. D. M. Lyon assumed vigorous hold of the management.
A new era of prosperity now opened, and trade became brisker than
ever. The storage capacity of the concern is over 100,000 barrels,
the sales amounting annually to 40,000 barrels of lager, ale and
porter. Their notable export brands -- Export Edelwild and Kaiser
Brau lager, also XX and XXX ale and porter -- are justly famous
for their many excellent qualities. Their beer, ales, and porter
are thoroughly pure, healthy beverages, made only from the very
best material, gently tonic in their action so that they conduce
to the strengthening of the human system, create a hearty appetite,
and for these reasons have received the cordial endorsement of leading
physicians.
The buildings of the company are substantial and extensive brick
structures, splendidly equipped throughout, embracing all the modern
accessories of the most recently improved brewing establishments.
The plant extends 250 feet on Canal Street and 200 feet on Commerce
STreet. The capacious storage house is six stories high and the
brewery four stories. Their fine storage house was erected in 1890
and altogether the company possesses one of the finest plants in
the city. Upward of sixty workmen are steadily employed and twenty
wagons are kept busily transporting goods. The promptest attention
is given to all orders. Thus, owing to good management and superior
products, The Lyon Company continues to progress and firmly holds
the trade once it is secured.
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