Michael Noll was born in 1834 or 1835 in Germany; records list conflicting dates.
According to the La Porte County Commercial Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1896), an article about his son, C. Noll, states that his father, Michael Noll began his beer business in 1872.
According to the 1893–1894 city directory, he operated a saloon at 616 Indiana Avenue. Today, that location is a Northwest Health parking lot across from the courthouse, next to Fire Station No. 1.
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He died on April 27, 1897, and is buried in Patton Cemetery in La Porte.
1) Michael Noll, who started the first tannery in South Bend on the site of the buildings recently occupied by the Porcelain company and now the property of the A. C. Staley Manufacturing company, died at his home in Laporte at 6 o’clock Tuesday evening. Mr. Noll left South Bend about 30 years ago. The funeral will take place at 3 p. m. to-morrow and a delegation will attend from Robert Blum lodge, No. 278, I. O. O. F., in which he always retained his membership. The South Bend Tribune, April 28, 1897.
1880-83 – Michael Noll, saloon, 46 Indiana Ave. – Indiana State Gazetteer & Business Directories
1893-94 – Noll Michael, saloon, 616 Indiana av, house the same.
