Breweries.--The brewery conducted by Joseph Lieberman corner, Sixth and Union Streets, was built about 1845. It comprises several substantial buildings, and is known as the Eagle Brewery. Six or seven men are employed, a capital of about ten thousand dollars is invested (besides that in the buildings), and about seven thousand barrels of beer are produced annually.
   Mr. Lieberman, who is the son of Peter and Marta Lieberman, was born in Immendingen, Province of Baden, on the 21st of March 1831. His boyhood was spent with his parents, habits of industry having been inculcated from his earliest years. He thus rendered himself independent in youth by employment as a teamster in various parts of the country, and during intervals engaged in general labor. In 1854 in company with his father, mother. their seven children, and the grandmother, he emigrated to America, landing in New York City. Soon after the family removed to Easton, Pa., where Joseph became for one year employee of the Cooper Furnace, at Phillipsburg. This period was succeeded by a brief interval as assistant in a saw mill, after which he removed to Kansas, and located in Leavenworth City, in the vicinity of which he remained one year. Returning to Pennsylvania, he settled at White Haven, Luzerne Co., engaging for a while in general labor, and later becoming the lessee of a saw-mill. Here he resided for five years, and was, in 1857, married to Miss Waldburga Danager, of Immendingen. Their children are Mary, John B., Frank (deceased), Florentina, Joseph, and Charles. In 1860, Mr. Lieberman removed to Warren County, N. J., and a year and a half later, to Northampton County where he engaged in farming and lumbering. In the fall of 1864, Allentown became his home. Here he speedily became identified with the business enterprises of the city as a brewer, and as director of the Elliger Real-Estate Company. He is also one directors of the Standard Slate Quarry, of Steinsville, Pa., of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and was president of the Lehigh County Safe-Deposit and Trust Company. He has been largely interested in real-estate transactions and active in the erection of buildings within the city limits. In 1873, in company with his wife and four children, Mr. Lieberman made an European tour, and remained ten months abroad. In 1881 he found his health greatly benefited by a similar trip, though limited in time to ten weeks. Mr. Lieberman, while voting the Democratic ticket, is not active as a politician. The family are all devout Catholics and members of the German Catholic Church of Allentown.
   The Germania Brewery was established by Benedict Nuding in 1878. It is in the rear of the Germania Hotel, on Seventh Street, also owned by Mr. Nuding, from which it takes its name. The brew-house is fifty-one by seventy feet and three stories in height. The capacity of the brewery, when running full force, is from four thousand to five thousand barrels per year, and the demand for the article has kept the production up to the higher figure almost constantly.
   Daniel Wise started a brewery in 1851, which he sold in 1859 to his son, James, who carried it on number of years.