{"id":619,"date":"2018-06-04T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/?p=619"},"modified":"2018-07-09T11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:30:20","slug":"history-john-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/2018\/06\/04\/history-john-french\/","title":{"rendered":"History: John French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John French was born in about 1845 in Maine. He was married to Charlotte (\u201cLottie\u201d) French. French brewed in Lewiston from some time around 1873 to 1878, out of 56 Blake Street. Before going into brewing, French was a shoemaker by trade. After 1878, French is listed as a constable in the city directory.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_685\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-685\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-685 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/files\/2018\/06\/6A8472F6-2CBF-4299-8A6F-CD831B759C6F-1024x378.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/files\/2018\/06\/6A8472F6-2CBF-4299-8A6F-CD831B759C6F-1024x378.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/files\/2018\/06\/6A8472F6-2CBF-4299-8A6F-CD831B759C6F-300x111.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/files\/2018\/06\/6A8472F6-2CBF-4299-8A6F-CD831B759C6F-768x283.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">French\u2019s brewing business would most likely have been near the First Baptist Church of Lewiston. Image from Sanford, Everts, &amp; Co.\u2019s Atlas of Androscoggin County, ME. 1873. Courtesy of AncestryLibrary.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-619\" data-postid=\"619\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-619 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_txrq177 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full   tb_86nd920 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module box -->\n<div  class=\"module module-box tb_doky957 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"module-box-content ui  tb_default_color\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tb_text_wrap\"><p>Sources:<\/p><p>Will Anderson,<em> The Great State of Maine Beer Book<\/em> (Portland: Anderson &amp; Sons\u2019 Publishing Co., 1996), 12.<\/p><p>Lewiston City Directory, 1872, 1874-75, 1878.<\/p><p>U.S. Census, 1870<\/p><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module box -->\n                    <\/div><!-- .tb-column-inner -->\n                            <\/div><!-- .module_column -->\n            \t    <\/div><!-- .row_inner -->\n\t<\/div><!-- .module_row -->\n\t<\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John French was born in about 1845 in Maine. He was married to Charlotte (\u201cLottie\u201d) French. French brewed in Lewiston from some time around 1873 to 1878, out of 56 Blake Street. Before going into brewing, French was a shoemaker by trade. After 1878, French is listed as a constable in the city directory. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7939,"featured_media":685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[921],"tags":[384770],"builder_content":"<p>Sources:<\/p><p>Will Anderson,<em> The Great State of Maine Beer Book<\/em> (Portland: Anderson &amp; Sons\u2019 Publishing Co., 1996), 12.<\/p><p>Lewiston City Directory, 1872, 1874-75, 1878.<\/p><p>U.S. Census, 1870<\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619"}],"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=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}