YEAST!

A notable Cincinnati family is the Fleischmann clan.  Here is a sketch.

Charles Louis Fleischmann was born in 1835 in what we now call the Czech Republic.  As a young man he managed a distillery and yeast manufacturing plant in Vienna for his father.  In 1865, he came to America, married a girl in New York and moved to Cincinnati.  Three years later, he, his brother Max, and a friend founded the Fleischmann Yeast Company in Sayler Park just west of Cincinnati.  It was the first company of it's type in the country.  At one point, the company had 14 manufacturing facilities in the U.S. headquartered in NYC.  Not only did the company make yeast but related distilled products:  vinegar and vodka.  Charles died in 1897

Charles had a son in 1871, Julius, who became president of the Fleischmann Yeast Company at age 26.  At age 30, Julius was elected the youngest Mayor of Cincinnati ever and served two terms.  An avid sportsman, he financed a semi-professional baseball team in Cincinnati and partnered in thoroughbred horse breeding.  He died while playing polo at the age of 52.

Julius had a son in 1900, Julius Jr.  I don't know much about him except that he died in 1968.  About that year, I was called to the Fleischmann estate in Indian Hill for some engineering consultation by their landscape consultant.  I'll never forget it.  The main house sat on the highest point of beautiful acreage in this exclusive community.  The peacocks they kept near the house were evidently in heat and crowed continually while I was there.

Halfway down a gentle hill from the house was a lake with dock and small boat.  The lake was probably used for swimming.  Next to the lake they had built what they called a "castle with secret garden".  The castle was a large two-story doll house with about four rooms kids could play in.  From the castle was built a wall surrounding the garden.  The project that they were envisioning was piping water from the lake to the top of the hill near the house and allowing the water to trickle down the hill over rocks and foliage and into the garden.   I told them how to do it...never got paid...never saw it completed.
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