Editing Adolphus Busch (section)

==Philanthropy==
From his early years, Busch contributed generously to charitable and education needs. With a lifelong interest in his homeland, he assisted in repairing devastation from the 1882 flooding of Mainz-Kastel by the Rhine River. He donated $100,000 (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|0.1|1906|r=1}} million today) to [[San Francisco]] after the 1906 earthquake - $50,000 personally and $50,000 from his company.<ref name="holian">[http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=152 Holian, Timothy J. "Adolphus Busch"], In ''Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present,'' vol. 3, edited by Giles R. Hoyt. German Historical Institute. Last modified August 9, 2013</ref>

Busch contributed a total of $350,000 (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|0.35|1906|r=1}} million today) to Harvard to endow a Germanic museum, named [[Adolphus Busch Hall]].<ref name="nytobit"/>