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Reymann Brewing Company

Defunct American brewery company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ7319510 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Reymann Brewing Company was a brewery in Wheeling, West Virginia.

In the 1890s one cold storage room and saloon operated by Reymann Brewing was on land rented to the company by President William McKinley and his wife.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Reymann Brewing Company” as defunct American brewery company. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Reymann, Brewing and Company.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current 38-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Reymann, Brewing and Company providing the first useful test.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7319510. Authority coordinates are 40.064, -80.711. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Reymann Brewing Company” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.