There are a few Joe Stein beer bottles that we need good photos of.
We decided to combine both Henry and Joe Stein, as theirs was a father-and-son partnership.
Henry Stein was born in Bavaria, Germany, on March 3, 1846. He immigrated to America around 1883 with his wife, Margaret, and first settled in South Bend, Indiana. About five years later, around 1887–1888, the family moved to Plymouth, where Henry purchased the bottling works of John Weiriter.
His son, Charles Joseph “Joe” Stein, was also born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1873. He took over his father’s bottling works in 1902. In 1907, Joe Stein sold the bottling works to the Ebert Bros.
Please refer to the Articles tab to read their full obituaries. Sadly, 1908 was a very difficult year for the Stein family, with the deaths of both father and son, one from tuberculosis and the other by suicide.
There are a few Joe Stein beer bottles that we need good photos of.
Sources
The Weekly Republican (Plymouth, Indiana), June 12, 1902, p. 8 (Joe Stein takes over the bottling works)
The Weekly Republican (Plymouth, Indiana), November 28, 1907, p. 4 (Ebert Bros. sale)
The Weekly Republican (Plymouth, Indiana), October 15, 1908, p. 1 (Joe Stein obituary)
The Weekly Republican (Plymouth, Indiana), December 3, 1908, p. 1 (Henry Stein obituary)
Notice of Dissolution.
Notice is hereby given that the firm of Henry Stein & Son, composed of Henry Stein and Joseph Stein, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent, the said Henry Stein retiring and the said Joseph Stein continuing the manufacture and sale of soft drinks and the wholesale selling of beer. Joseph Stein is to pay all outstanding accounts against said firm, and all accounts due said firm are to be collected by said Joseph Stein.
HENRY STEIN. JOSEPH STEIN.
Plymouth, Ind., June 9, 1902.
Charles Joseph Stein, died at the home of his mother, at 203 east Sophia street, at 5:40 o’clock Sunday evening aged 35 years. He had been ill for about three years, suffering with tuberculosis of the bone. His ailment was the result of an accident, in which his foot was injured by a falling weight. Finally the foot and then the lower leg was amputated, but the disease had taken too firm a hold, and his health gradually failed. On September 19, 1907, with his family, Mr. Stein went to Las Vegas, New Mexico, in the hope of recovering in a change of climate. For the last two weeks his health fell rapidly. They returned to Plymouth last Friday, and death occurred Sunday afternoon.
Charles Joseph Stein was born in Bavaria, Germany. When nine years of age, he accompanied his parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stein, to this country, the family first taking up their residence at South Bend. Five years later they moved to this city, and have lived here for twenty-one years. In November of 1884, Joseph Stein was married to Miss Mamie Crawford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Crawford of this city, who as a widow with three children survive him. The children are Azelia, Robert and Herman, aged seven, four and four years respectively. Two sisters, Mrs. Paul Ketcher of St. Joseph, Mich., and Mrs. Lizzie Leitenstorfer of Chicago, survive him with his parents.
Deceased operated the bottling works in this city for many years, was a hard working and ambitious young man, whose career was unmercifully cut short, in life.
Funeral was held at the residence Wednesday morning at 10:30 o’clock, conducted by Rev. W. S. Howard.
HENRY STEIN ENDS HIS LIFE
FIRED REVOLVER INTO HIS BRAIN AT LAKE OF THE WOODS.
All of His Life He Had Said He Would Die Like a Soldier.
The well-known character, Henry Stein is no more. After threatening every day for twenty years to commit suicide, he ended his life at his home at Lake of the Woods, at about 4:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon by firing a revolver-shot into his brain at the right temple. It had been a hobby for years, for Stein to tell whomever he happened to be conversing with that he was going to kill himself soon. He despised the thought of disease and always said that he would die a soldier’s death. One of Stein’s remarks was a sort of slogan a few years ago, with the boys of the town. Translated from German, which he always spoke, it was to the effect that “If that miserable rheumatism gets worse, I will take my revolver and Boom,–their lies old Stein.” When he fired the fatal shot, he was already within the shadows of death’s door from cancer of the stomach and his end was expected from natural causes within three days. He laid all plans for ending his life carefully, even to the secreting of a revolver by his bedside, and having his wife prop him up in bed with pillows, so that he might gain strength enough to pull a trigger.
Stein had been ill for about two years. Last summer he was operated upon for cancer of the stomach, and has been steadily sinking from that time. After the death of his son Joseph, he sent for his wife, who resided in Plymouth, to come to the Lake of the Woods and care for him. Mrs. Stein went, and he has been bedfast since that time. A week ago last Sunday, Stein called Milo Shaw, the hired hand, and bade him get Stein’s old revolver, clean it up, load it and bring it to him. Shaw was used to the shooting talk, and to humor the old man he loaded the revolver which was a 32-calibre, and placed it in a small safe at the bedside.
Thursday afternoon Mrs. Joseph Stein and Mrs. Chas. Shadel drove to Lake of the Woods to see Mr. and Mrs. Stein. The former talked as usual, told the ladies that in two more days it would be all over with Stein, he would be six feet under the ground. They supposed that the disease would claim the old man within that time. When these ladies left, Stein called his wife, asking her for something. She went in his bedroom and noticed a blue handkerchief lying over something on the safe. She asked him if he wanted the handkerchief and he laid his hand over it forbidding her to touch it. He then asked her to pile pillows beneath him so that he would be placed in a sitting posture. In a couple of minutes after she returned to the kitchen, she heard a muffled report, and hurrying back into his room asked “What was that?” She got no reply and rushed to the bedside, only to find her husband dead with a bullet hole I his right temple. The revolver was grasped in his right hand, and the blue handkerchief which had concealed it, lay on the bed covers. Death had been instantaneous.
The hired hand says that he thought it impossible for Stein to find strength enough to cock and fire the revolver, which was an od specimen of 32 caliber. An almost bloodless wound was inflicted, only a small hole being made in the temple.
Henry Stein was born in Bavaria, Germany on March 3, 1846 being 62 years of age at the time of his death. On Feb 18, 1873, he was married to Miss Margaret Schmidt, who as a widow survives him. In 1883 they moved to America, first residing at South Bend. The family has lived in this city for 22 years. Upon moving to Plymouth, Stein bought the bottling works of John Weiriter, and about 10 years ago established his business at Lake of the Woods, and continued managing both until a few years ago, when the Plymouth plant was turned over to his son Joseph. Two daughters survive, Mrs. Elizabeth Leitenstorfer of Chicago, and Mrs. Paul Ketcher of St. Joseph, Mich. The only son Joseph, died in this city on Oct, 11th, of this year.
