Frederick William Jessen was born in Germany in 1852 and died in Charleston,SC
in 1923. He is buried in Bethany Cemetery in Charleston. He owned a brewrey in
Charleston and bottled beer for his saloons and Budweiser. The Jessen bottle is from 1888. F.W. was my Great Uncle.
Thanks,Harold Jessen
Thanks for coming to A-BN with this news. Do you have a large collection of your Great Uncle's bottles and ephemera? I noticed he had both a large "J," and a smaller "J" on some bottles, as the central logo. What more can you tell us of his life and career?
The bottle is most likely from the late 1870'-80's and may be a soda, beer or water bottle....Jim...it has some condition
issues but it's still a nice bottle
Was just on google looking for this bottle and I should have known it would lead me here lol. Anyway here is a very sickly example of his Anheuser Busch. Bad cell phone pics to boot.