Company Names, addresses, dates¹:
  Moses T. Bridwell, 349 M Street SW (1873-1878)
  Moses T. Bridwell, 351 M Street SW (1879-1887)
  Moses T. Bridwell, 359 M Street SW (1886)
  Moses T. Bridwell, 361 M Street SW (1888-1892)
  Moses T. Bridwell, 363 M Street SW (1890-1892)
  Lewis T. Bridwell, 337 Pa Ave NW (1887-1888)
  Lewis T. Bridwell, 621 7th Street SW (1889-1892)
  Lewis T. Bridwell, 615 7th street SW (1883)

Notes:
Moses T. Bridwell (1824-1892) was listed as a "Mead Manufacturer" in the 1870 census. He was listed as a bottler in the 1890 and 1891 DC directories. An advertisement in the February 2, 1881 Washington Post said M.T. Bridwell was "established 1850", and the advertisement at the bottom of this web page says he started circa 1852, but the earliest mention of him as a bottler in city directories is 1873¹.

Lewis T. Bridwell, born ~1856, was listed as Moses T. Bridwell's son in the 1860 & 1870 census. In an 1890 DC directory, his occupation was listed as a saloon owner and his father was listed as a bottler. His father died in 1892, so presumably he took over the bottling business at that time. There is a photo of L.T. Bridwell's Oyster bar at 615 7th street in the book "Images of America Southwest Washington DC" with a sign that says Christian Heurich's Lager Beer was bottled by L.T. Bridwell². He shows up in DC city directories as both a bottler (1892) and a saloon owner (1888-1891).
In August of 1883, Lewis Bridwell was a wholesale and retail liquor dealer at 615 7th St SW, and had to sell his business to William C. Scribner to pay off his debts. ⁴
In December of 1900, 61 year old Clementina Bridwell and 29 year old Cora Bridwell were arrested at 361 M St SW for drinking at an unlicensed bar⁵. I suspect Clementina was Moses's wife.


Bottles:

(enlarge)	These are aqua baltimore-loop top bottles. The left bottle is 7.3" and is marked: front: L.T. BRIDWELL / 615 7TH ST. SW / WASHINGTON D.C. bottom: 18 The right bottle is 9" and is marked: front: L.T. BRIDWELL / 615 SEVENTH ST / SW / WASHINGTON D.C. Note that the "N" in "SEVENTH" is backwards.
(enlarge)	This is an aqua 6.75" hutchinson bottle marked: front: L.T. BRIDWELL / 615 SEVENTH ST SW / WASHINGTON D.C. back: THIS BOTTLE / NOT TO BE SOLD bottom: 49
(enlarge)	This is a 6.5" aqua hutchinson bottle marked: front: M.T. BRIDWELL / 363 M. ST. S.W. / WASHINGTON D.C.
(enlarge)	This is a 9.5" blue-aqua blob top bottle marked: front: M.T.B. / 351 M. ST. S.W. / D.C. 1881
(enlarge)	This is a 6.2" aqua hutchinson marked: front: M.T.B. / 363 / M. ST. S.W. / WASH'G'TN D.C.
(enlarge)	This partial squat soda bottle is marked: front: M.T.B. / 351 M. ST. S.W. / D.C.

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This is an advertisement from the 1887 book "Washington Hisorical sketches of the Capital City of our Country", by John P. Coffin. The book says that Bridwell started 35 years earlier (1852) bottling and selling root beer using a hand cart as his delivery wagon (this sounds fishy because he was listed as a Tailor in some of the earlier directories). It says 16 years earlier (1871) he began at 363 M St SW, adding a grocery and notion store, and that he'd built a new building for bottling about 4 years earlier (1883). It said he employed about 20 hands.3