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| The Brewmaster's financial advisor reacts with characteristic chagrin as he monitors the stock market in 1929. The brewery suffered greatly during the Depression, but would recover for a short time. The man at left, tragically, committed suicide in 1930 by plunging to his death from a water tower in Tonawanda. His body was never recovered. |
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| Hortense Gildersleeves, the younger brother of the Brewmaster. From birth, he was always the black sheep of the family, as evidenced, at left, by the highly unusual appearance he presented. Yes, the striped bow ties Hortense chose to wear caused quite a controversy back in the early 20th century. Hortense would go on to become a very successful male model. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A picture of sadness, Stanley Gildersleeves, the fourth-cousin of the Brewmaster, is shown here attending the funeral of his thrice-removed aunt, Edwina Gildersleeves, Mother of Throkmorton. Though overseas serving in the Army during the Great War when Edwina died, the Brewmaster deeply felt the pain of her death, and expressed his great appreciation to Stanley for attending the funeral in his place. It was later learned, however, that Stanley had designs on Gildersleeves Brewery, and had hoped to wrest control of it while Throkmorton was at war. When he learned of this plot years later, the Brewmaster hunted Stanley down and brutally murdered him. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Police were infuriated when they fell into a moat that Gildersleeves had dug, surrounding his brewery offices, in an effort to thwart the inevitable raid during Prohibition. Seen above is a photo taken by the Tonawanda News at the very moment of the mishap. Five officers were killed, and four were inconvenienced. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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