{"id":592,"date":"2018-06-12T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T19:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/?p=592"},"modified":"2018-06-15T09:41:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T13:41:53","slug":"benjamin-f-haley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/2018\/06\/12\/benjamin-f-haley\/","title":{"rendered":"History: Benjamin F. Haley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haley, like many other pre-prohibition brewers, didn\u2019t originally start out with a career in brewing. He married Elmira Seavey in 1854 when he was about 23 and the two lived on a farm in Limington before moving to Biddeford in 1859. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Haley\u2019s first brewing location was at 29 Elm (roughly where the word \u2018store\u2019 appears on the street in this image). Image from Sanford, Everts, & Co.\u2019s Atlas of York County ME. 1872. Courtesy of AncestryLibrary.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Twelve years later (1871), he started his brewing operation at 29 Elm Street in Biddeford. He brewed beer and soda. Business boomed and he moved to 8 Pine Street. At that location, he sold small beer, champagne cider, ginger ale, root beer, and a specialty noted in Biddeford Weekly Journal<\/i>: Spruce Beer.<\/p>\n

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Haley’s final brewing location is shown on this map, labeled as “bottling works.” Sanborn Map Company, Oct. 1891. Library of Congress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He brewed with the help of his sons Alonzo and Charles until he sold the business in 1897, ending a more than 25-year long career. Two years later, in February of 1899, Haley passed away.<\/p>\n\n

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Sources:<\/p>

Will Anderson, The Great State of Maine Beer Book<\/em> (Portland: Anderson & Sons\u2019 Publishing Co., 1996) 43.
Augusta, Gardiner, and Hallowell City Directory, 1870-1877<\/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":"

Haley, like many other pre-prohibition brewers, didn\u2019t originally start out with a career in brewing. He married Elmira Seavey in 1854 when he was about 23 and the two lived on a farm in Limington before moving to Biddeford in 1859.   Twelve years later (1871), he started his brewing operation at 29 Elm Street […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7939,"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[921],"tags":[374723],"builder_content":"

Sources:<\/p>

Will Anderson, The Great State of Maine Beer Book<\/em> (Portland: Anderson & Sons\u2019 Publishing Co., 1996) 43.
Augusta, Gardiner, and Hallowell City Directory, 1870-1877<\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"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=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}