Fleischmann Temple

Thursday
Since today was supposed to be the only day in the 7-day forecast without rain, I decided I would have to make the most of it, and get out for a walk somewhere. I chose Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum - it's beautiful at any time of year, but I think especially so in the Spring. This neoclassical Doric temple was modeled after the Parthenon in Athens, Greece and is built of Barre, Vermont granite. Charles Louis Fleischmann (1835 - 1897) was an innovative manufacturer of yeast and other consumer food products during the 19th Century. A native of Jaegerndorf, Moravia, Charles Fleischmann was educated in Budapest, Hungary, Vienna and Prague. He then managed a distillery in Vienna where he produced spirits and yeast. In 1865, Fleischmann came to the United States, and was disappointed in the quality of locally baked bread in the Cincinnati, Ohio region. In the late 1860s, he and his brother Maximilian created America's first commercially produced yeast. The brothers, along with another business partner named James Gaff, founded what became the Fleischmann Yeast Company in Riverside, Ohio, in 1868. In the 1920's Fleischmann's entered the vinegar business as a way to utilize the alcohol produced by the bakers' yeast growth.
Charles Fleischmann was also responsible for numerous mechanical patents involving yeast production machinery. He helped to organize the Market National Bank and became its president from 1887 until his death in 1897. His son, Julius Fleischmann, also became a mayor of Cincinnati.

One year ago: Red-winged blackbird