Businessman. He was a German-American Brewer and Founder of Henry Weinhard Beer. He immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1851, and lived in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and California before settling in the Portland, Oregon area. He worked for others in the beer business before buying his own brewery and founded Henry Weinhard's and built the Weinhard Brewery Complex in downtown Portland. In 1862, he bought the Henry Saxer Brewery in Portland and then partnered with George Bottler to build a new brewery in what is now Northwest Portland. He moved permanently to Portland and then sold his Vancouver operations in 1864 and bought out Bottler’s share of the business in 1866. He also bought Portland's oldest brewery, the Liberty Brewery, and continued expansion of the Portland operations then called the City Brewery. By 1890, the brewery was the largest in the Pacific Northwest and had grown from producing 2,000 barrels per year to 40,000 barrels that year. He was a Mason and also a member of several German societies in Portland. This included helping to found the Portland German Aid Society, with other civic activities including providing funds to build a church adjacent to the brewery. Other business interests outside of the brewery included investments in the Portland Hotel, the West Side Railway, and the New Grand Central Hotel. In 1887, he offered to pump free beer into the Skidmore Fountain for its dedication, but the city declined because of the fear of rowdy horses. The brewery he built remained in operation in Portland until 1999. The Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve brand survives today and is currently owned by MillerCoors who has also continued to sell Henry Weinhard's brand gourmet sodas, distributed out of Colfax, California which flavors include root beer, vanilla cream soda, orange cream, and black cherry cream.