| Wilhelm Gebhardt was born in Hanover, German and emigrant to Mount Gambier in the 1860s where he built a
new brewery on Commercial Street. The new brewery was named the South Australian Brewery, and along with
the brewery was a malt house and cordial factory. By 1867 Wilhelm started a brewery in the nearby town of Penola,
with Ernst Seelinger as the manager of the new brewery, this partnership only lasted a few years with Wilhelm leaving
the Penola Brewery in 1869. Wilhelm Gebhardt died in 1890 at the age of 52 leaving his widow Ernstina to manage the brewery. John Tothill leased the brewery from the Gebhardt family in 1898. John had worked as a brewer at the Walkerville Brewery under Charles Williams as well as working at the Waverly Brewery in Mitcham, when in 1893 he became the brewer at the Standard Brewery in Mount Gambier. John died in 1909 of a stroke, leaving the brewery empty, Mrs Gebhardt put the brewery up for sale in December 1909. |
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