{"id":345,"date":"2017-11-18T15:10:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T20:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/?p=345"},"modified":"2018-06-11T10:44:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T14:44:28","slug":"history-the-flaherty-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/2017\/11\/18\/history-the-flaherty-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"History: The Flaherty Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Flaherty Brothers, Peter L. and Dennis E., set up a brewhouse in Peter\u2019s American House Hotel in Bangor in 1890. It was located at 14 Haymarket Square, near Pickering Square. They were barely in business for a year. The brothers split up, with Dennis going into the retail clothing business. Peter renamed the business \u201cBangor City Soda Company\u201d and moved to 35 Exchange Street. The original building no longer exists, torn down during Bangor\u2019s urban renewal in the 1960s. In 1892, Peter dropped out of brewing altogether. Dennis died in February, 1894. Peter became a boarder at the Merchant\u2019s Hotel in 1893, and then the St. James Hotel in 1895; henceforth, he disappears from the records.<\/p>\n

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The Flaherty Brothers brewery was in Bangor’s Haymarket Square, pictured here in 1890. from Bangor Historical Society, Maine Memory Network<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Peter was born around 1866 and Dennis was born around 1868. Their parents, Peter L. Flaherty Sr. (a tailor, or \u201cTaylor\u201d as the census record in 1880 denotes) and Mary Flaherty immigrated to the United States from Ireland.<\/p>\n

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The Flaherty Brothers brewed, briefly, in the American House Hotel in Bangor. from Sanborn-Perris Map Co., 1889 (Folger Library, University of Maine at Orono)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sources:
\nWill Anderson,\u00a0The Great State of Maine Beer Book<\/i>\u00a0(Portland: Anderson & Sons\u2019 Publishing Co., 1996).
\nBangor City Directory, 1891-1895
\nU.S. Census, 1880<\/p>\n\n

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Sources:
Will Anderson,\u00a0The Great State of Maine Beer Book<\/i>\u00a0(Portland: Anderson & Sons\u2019 Publishing Co., 1996) 35.
Bangor City Directory, 1891-1895
U.S. Census, 1880<\/p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \t <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Flaherty Brothers, Peter L. and Dennis E., set up a brewhouse in Peter\u2019s American House Hotel in Bangor in 1890. It was located at 14 Haymarket Square, near Pickering Square. They were barely in business for a year. The brothers split up, with Dennis going into the retail clothing business. Peter renamed the business […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7939,"featured_media":536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[921],"tags":[374705,374740,374741],"builder_content":"

Sources:
Will Anderson,\u00a0The Great State of Maine Beer Book<\/i>\u00a0(Portland: Anderson & Sons\u2019 Publishing Co., 1996) 35.
Bangor City Directory, 1891-1895
U.S. Census, 1880<\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7939"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}