1905 - Independent Brewing Company

Fifteen of the remaining breweries in town merge to form the Independent Brewing Company, of which Duquesne was the largest and longest-lasting component.

Stock certificate for the Independent Brewing Company. Reproduced from the Senator John Heinz History Center archives.

Duquesne was close to bankruptcy during Prohibition but thrived afterward and became one of the ten largest breweries in the nation up until WWII.

From 100 years of Brewing.