William N.H. Maack


Company Names, addresses, dates1:
  Henke & Maack, Washington DC (circa 1850)4
  Maack & Arny, Washington DC
  William N.H. Maack, 426 4 1/2 west (1855)
  William N.H. Maack, 428 4 1/2 west (1861-1865)
  William N.H. Maack, N south cor 4 1/2 west (1866-1867)
  W.N.H. Maack & Co, Washington DC (1874-1875)2
  William N.H. Maack, 1304 4 1/2 SW (1877)
  William N.H. Maack, 1300 6th SW (1878-1892)

Notes:
William N.H. Maack was born in 1822 in Germany. American Brweries II2 says the WNH Maack & Co brewery lasted only from 1874 to 1875, however DC directories list William NH Maack as a brewer in the 1860s, and as a bottler in the 1880s.
Maack was teamed up with someone named "Arny", as evidenced by the "MAACK & ARNY" bottle below. Presumably this was the same Charles W. Arny who teamed up with Riley Shinn to form "Arny & Shinn" at 57 Greene Street in Georgetown from about 1854 to 18623. So presumably "MAACK & ARNY" were teamed up prior to 1854.
The National Intelligencer Newspaper mentions Henke & Maack in a list of companies that took out a license for a wagon under the laws of "Wash Corp" sometime during the months of July, August & September of 18504. From this information, plus the fact that the "Henke & Maack" bottle below is torpedo shaped (typical of very early soda bottles), I beleive that Henke & Maack were teamed up before Maack & Arny.

Bottles:

henke_02 (enlarge) This is a dark-green 9" torpedo-shaped bottle embossed:
front: HENKE & MAACK
Note that it does not say "Washington DC" on it anywhere.
maack_arny_1 (enlarge) This is a dark-green 7.2" short blob top bottle embossed:
front: MAACK & ARNY / GEORGETOWN / D.C.
back: THIS BOTTLE IS / NEVER SOLD
bottom: (iron pontil scar)
maack_06 (enlarge) This is a badly damaged bottle, but when it was whole it was a 7" green squat blob top bottle embossed:
front: Wm MAACK / WASHINGTON / D.C.
back: THIS BOTTLE / IS NEVER SOLD
bottom: (iron pontil scar)
maack (enlarge) Aqua 7.1" short blob top bottle embossed:
front: W.N.H. MAACK / W. C. D. C.
back: THIS BOTTLE IS / NEVER SOLD
The "W.C." stands for "Washington City"
maack_4 (enlarge) This is an aqua 7.2" short blob top bottle embossed:
front: W.N.H. MAACK & Co / W. C. / D. C.
back: THIS BOTTLE / NEVER SOLD
maack_05 (enlarge) This is an aqua 7.2" short blob top bottle embossed:
front: Wm N.H. MAACK & Co / WASHINGTON / D. C.
back: THIS BOTTLE / IS / NEVER SOLD
maack_2 (enlarge) This is an aqua 7.4" squat blob top bottle embossed:
front: Wm N.H. MAACK / WASHINGTON / D.C.
back: THIS BOTTLE / IS / NEVER SOLD
maack_3 (enlarge) This is an aqua 6.5" squat blob top bottle embossed:
front: Wm N.H. MAACK / WASHINGTON / D.C.
back: M / THIS BOTTLE IS / NEVER SOLD


1 Boyd's Directory for the District of Columbia (various years)
2 American Breweries II by Dale P. Van Wieren
3 Historical & Commercial Sketches of Washington, 1884, compiled by E.E. Barton, p.126
4 National Intelligencer Newspaper Abstracts 1840 by Joan M. Dixon



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