August Heinrich Buermeyer was born April 26th, 1867 in Markendorf, Hannover Germany and died September, 1928 in Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey. August was 16 when he emigrated to America in 1883. He worked as a bartender and occasional dock worker. He married Emma Anheuser on January 17th, 1892 in New Jersey. His father-in-law, Georg Anheuser, was a chemist (pharmacist) in Hoboken, NJ.