Entrepreneur. He was credited as the co-founder of Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company. Adolphus Busch was the second of 22 children born to Barbara Pfeifer and Ulrich Busch in Kastel, Mainz, Grand Duchy of Hesse, which is now Germany. His father was a wealthy landowner and had business interests in the lumber, winery, and brewing businesses. He had access to the best education with his father's social position and wealth. He attended the Academy of Darmstadt and the Collegiate Institute of Belgium in Brussels. After working in the lumber business for a year, he secured a position in a mercantile business in Cologne where he quickly rose to a leadership position. He, along with three of his brothers: Johann, Ulrich, Jr., and Anton immigrated to the United States in 1857. He became acquainted with Eberhard Anheuser, the owner of a small beer brewery, and married his daughter, Lilly Eberhard Anheuser, on March 7, 1861, in St. Louis, Missouri. The couple had 8 children: Augusta, August Anheuser, Adolphus II, Eddie, Anna, Clara, Wilhelmina, and Carl. During the American Civil War in June of 1861, he joined the Union Army and served for 14 months, eventually attaining the rank of Colonel. During his service in the Union Army, he was notified of his father's death and that he had inherited a portion of the estate. With the proceeds from the estate, he was able to establish a wholesale brewers supply business in St. Louis. Four years later, he purchased an equal share of his father-in-law's Bavarian brewery, Anheuser and Company. After Eberhard Anheuser died in 1880, the business name was changed to Anheuser-Busch Company. Adolphus pioneered the pasteurization of beer so that it could be kept in railside icehouses and shipped in refrigerated rail cars throughout the country without a loss of quality. He also pioneered bottling beer in glass bottles and founded the Busch Glass Company to assure a steady supply of bottles to his brewery business. He purchased the trademarked name "Budweiser" from Carl Conrad in 1891 for his product. The success of his brewing business allowed Adolphus and his family to contribute to many philanthropic activities. He made several contributions to Harvard University toward the erection of a Germanic Museum, named Adolphus Busch Hall and assisted in the rebuilding of Kastel, Mainz, Germany from a devastating flood of the Rhine River in 1882. The family also traveled extensively and had a vacation home in Langenschwalbach, Germany, which is now Bad Schwalbach, Germany. While on vacation at his home in Germany, he died from the complication of congested heart failure and originally buried in Germany. The stewardship of his company was passed to his son August and remains in the family into the 21st century. At the time of his death, his estate was worth $60 million. In 1915 his body was repatriated to the United States and buried in the family mausoleum.