Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908

Biographical sketch of Ludwig Breitag, "well known as a stone and building contractor in Kansas City," born in "Prussia, Germany" in 1859 and moving to the United States and arriving in Kansas City in 1886 as a construction worker, erecting "forty or fifty handsome stone residences in this city, together with other buildings, including the Imperial Brewery," the "Congregational church at Thirty-sixth and Walnut streets; the Weber's Gasoline Engine plant in Sheffield, Missouri; and the city water works and streets department building," as well as "the concrete and stone work for the Jewish temple," the "courthouse at Olathe, Kansas," and "the Female College, at Liberty, Missouri."