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Billhead - This document is from the Fleischmann Agency in Hartford, Connecticut...09/01/1885. A native of Jägerndorf (Czech: Krnov), Moravian Silesia, Charles Fleischmann was the son of Alois (or Abraham) Fleischmann, a Jewish distiller and yeast maker, and Babette. He was educated in Budapest, Hungary, Vienna, and Prague. He was Hungarian and married the Russian Henriette Robertson in New York. The story of Fleischmann’s® Yeast, and how it revolutionized modern American baking, begins in 1868, when Charles and Maximilian Fleischmann left Austria-Hungary to make a better life in America. And for them, that meant making better bread. In an effort to make a better-rising bread like they had known in their homeland, the Fleischmann brothers partnered with American businessman James Gaff to build a yeast plant in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was there that the brothers produced and patented a compressed yeast cake that revolutionized home and commercial baking in the United States.

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