Northlandia: Historic Duluth brewery founded by the son of a suffragist
While her obituary included praise, it also suggested that humanity was not quite ready for women like Mathilde Anneke.
Written By:
Tony Dierckins, For the News Tribune | 9:00 am, Mar. 17, 2021 ×
Mathilde Anneke photographed in Milwaukee, date unknown. (Image courtesy Wisconsin Historical Society)
In keeping with the celebration of Women’s History Month, March’s Northlandia explains Duluth’s connection to a 19th-century feminist who befriended the fathers of communism, fought in a revolution, and inspired Susan B. Anthony.
Duluthian Mike Fink hired August Fitger as brewmaster of his Lake Superior Brewery in the fall of 1882, and within six months Fitger had bought half of the business. The plan was to have his friend Percy Shelly Anneke named by his mother for the British poet purchase the other half. Anneke worked for Milwaukee’s Voechting, Shape & Co., who bottled beer