brewer, businessman, conservationist, b. Milwaukee. He was the son of Frederick Pabst (q.v.). He entered his father's brewing business in 1890, and in 1904 became president of the Pabst Brewing Co. on his father's death. He served in this capacity until 1921 when he turned his attention to real estate developments, and for a number of years directed the extensive business of the Ventnor Corporation. Pabst was also a member of the board of directors of many other Milwaukee business and banking establishments, and in his later years devoted his time to the propagation of upland game birds and the scientific breeding of Holstein dairy cattle. T. C. Cochran, Pabst Brewing Co. (New York, 1948); J. G. Gregory, Hist. of Milwaukee (4 vols., Chicago, 1931); Milwaukee journal, May 29, 1943.

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