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Rudolph Jay Schaefer I

American businessperson

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ23621694 ↗
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Rudolph Jay Schaefer I (February 21, 1863 - November 9, 1923) was an American businessman who was the president of F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company.

Biography

Schaefer was born on February 21, 1863, in Manhattan, New York City, to Maximilian Karl Emil Schaefer (1819–1904) and Ernestina Catherine Johanna Mathesius (1832–1898). He married Frederica Vilette Beck on October 15, 1890, in Manhattan. He died of pneumonia on November 9, 1923, in Larchmont, New York.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1863, 1923, 1819, 1904—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1863-02-21. The account is most persuasive where Rudolph, Schaefer and American can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Rudolph Jay Schaefer I” 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.