Biography of John Neu, Jr.
John Neu, Jr., attorney at law of St. Louis, his native city, was born October 21, 1888. His father, John Neu, a native of Belleville, Illinois, was descended from one of the old families of that locality, whose ancestral line in America can be traced back to Phillip Neu, a native of Germany who came to America during the latter ’40s and settled in Belleville, there establishing the Western Brewery, then the largest in the Mississippi valley. In this business he continued throughout his entire life. Later the business was sold and John Neu, father of the subject of this … Read more
