Augustus Byrvian

Life
Augustus Byrvian was born in 1798 in Tinneville to Arnold Byrvian and Erika Schuster. When he was born he was the sole heir to The Byrvian Shipping Company and would inherit the company upon his fathers death. He would spend his early years working at the shipyards and would move to New England to attend college at Connecticut State University. While there he would meet his wife Marie O'Connel and they would be married in 1824. In 1825, shortly after his marriage, he moved back to Tinneville and began work at his father's company as a head clerk. in 1830 his father died, and he would be left with the company. He would be remembered for pulling company focus away from shipping and begin experimenting with hard candies that he would sell from a small building in the Tinneville dockyards. He took a break from his business life and focused on home life in 1835, which is when Marie gave birth to Leopold Byrvian and Maxwell Byrvian. Maxwell would die during childbirth, leaving Leopold an only child. In 1840 Augustus moved the Byrvian offices from the dockyards to the inner-city, closer to the homes of it's workers. He would die in 1852 under mysterious circumstances and the company would be passed to his son.