Biographical Sketch of Otto Brauer, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Otto Brauer, a book-keeper of Washington Brewery, owned by John B.
Busch, is a native of Brunswick, Germany, born in 1840, son of Louis
and Bertha (Buehrig) Brauer.  The father was born in 1809 and died in
1879.  He was a merchant by occupation.  The mother died in 1861, at
the age of forty-seven.  Of the two children born to this union, Otto
is the only one living.  He was educated in his native country at the
high school and at the Mercantile College at Hanover for two years. He
then engaged in merchandising in Hanover, Dresden, Leipzig and Frank-
fort.  In 1861 he entered the German army as a volunteer, and advanced
afterward to second lieutenant in the reserve.  In 1862 he accepted a
position as book-keeper in a flour mill at Walbeck, and remained there
three years.  February 14, 1865, he married Miss Lena Born, who was
born November 1, 1842, in Magdeburg, Prussia, and who bore him three
children, of whom two have died.  Louise, who is a teacher in the 
public school in Washington, is the only daughter now living.  In 1886
Mr. Brauer immigrated to the United States, and settled in St. Louis,
where he began as salesman in a wholesale house, remaining there four
years.  He then came to Pacific, Franklin Co., Mo., and engaged in
school teaching, which occupation he followed for six years in that
town.  In 1876 he came to Washington, and was hired as teacher in the
German department of the public schools, and taught four years.  In
1878 he was appointed by the governor as commissioner of schools of
Franklin County, and in 1880 was elected.  December, 1881, he received
the position of book-keeper for the large brewing establishment at
Washington, Mo., and has since held that position.  He has full control
of the entire establishment, the owner, John B. Busch, being a invalid.
Mr. Brauer is a Republican in politics, is a member of the A. O. U. W. 
and a Lutheran in his religious belief.

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