Word: wuppermann
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Died. Adolf Edward Wuppermann, 65, president of the Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. (Angostura Bitters), brother of Cinemactors Ralph and Frank Morgan; of heart disease; in Greenwich, Conn. Angostura Bitters is brewed according to a secret formula known only to three descendants of Inventor Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a retired Army surgeon who lived in Venezuela. Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. was started in 1879 by Adolf Wuppermann's father to take over the U. S. Angostura agency. When George Wuppermann died in 1915, the presidency passed to his able widow who ran the company until she died last September...
...your Sept. 28 issue you state that the recently deceased Mrs. Josephine W. Wuppermann as president of Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. did not know the secret formula for Angostura Bitters...
Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. is the U. S. branch of 112-year-old J. G. B. Siegert & Hijos (Sons) Ltd. of Trinidad. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, the firm's present managing director is a grandson of Founder Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a surgeon under Blücher at Waterloo. After Napoleon's fall Johann Siegert went to Angostura in Venezuela, began making his "elixir." Only known ingredients are gentian, common bitters base, and rum. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, Albert Siegert and Krast Siegert are the only three living men who know Angostura Bitters' formula. In case something should happen...
...Named president of Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. to succeed Mrs. Josephine Wuppermann, who died last month at 84, was her eldest son, Adolf Edward Wuppermann, active manager of the company for 25 years. Son Edward gave up yearning for the stage career followed by his brothers, Cinemactors Ralph and Frank Morgan, to enter the famed bitters business in 1888, used to refer to himself as "mother's high-class errand...
Actor Morgan's real name is Francis Phillip Wuppermann. Josephine Wuppermann, his mother, is, at 82, president and treasurer of Angostura-Wuppermann, sole agents for Angostura bitters in the U. S., Canada, Mexico and Cuba. Only three persons know what Angostura is made of, and a Wuppermann is not one of them. Mr. Alfredo Galo Siegert of Trinidad, grandson of the first man ever to brew Angostura, shares his secret only with a brother and a brother-in-law. Lest something happen to ail three at once, a copy of the formula is locked in a bank vault...