newspaperman, businessman, b. Breuschwickersheim, Alsace-Lorraine, France. He migrated to Milwaukee in 1857 where he became a bookseller, bookbinder, and publisher. In 1873 he began publication of Die Germania, a German Lutheran newspaper with Republican leanings, which became influential and widely circulated. In 1891, during the Bennett law agitation, Brumder made the newspaper a daily, and in 1897 he united it with the Abend Post. After 1906, when he bought control of the Herold, he controlled all of the Milwaukee German newspapers. He also owned German language papers in Chicago and Lincoln, Neb., as well as in several Wisconsin towns. He was president of the Germania National Bank (1903- 1910) and of the Concordia Fire Insurance Company (1897-1909). His son, WILLIAM CHARLES BRUMDER, graduated from the Univ. of Wisconsin (B.A., 1890), and attended Strasbourg, Leipzig, and Berlin universities. He eventually assumed control of his father's publishing business and gained prominence as a leader among Wisconsin Republicans. A. J. Aikens and L. A. Proctor, eds., Men of Progress. Wis. (Milwaukee, I897); W. G. Bruce, ed., Hist. of Milwaukee (3 vols., Chicago, 1922); E. B. Usher, Wis. (8 vols., Chicago, 1914); Milwaukee journal, May 9, 1910, June 5, 1929.Learn More
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