Biographical Sketch of John H. Broeker, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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John H. Broeker, manufacturer of hand-made bricks of all kinds, and a
member of the firm of H. H. Beinke & Broeker, commenced the business
August 28, 1874, his partner at that time being Henry Michael.  Mr.
Broeker was born in Germany in 1831, and in 1857 came to the United
States, and directly to Washington, Mo., where he worked as a day
laborer.  In 1866 he married Miss Louisa Baumhofer, who was born in
Germany in 1846, and who bore him five children, three now living:
John, Augusta and Minnie.  Mrs. Broeker died in 1880, and since that 
time our subject's daughters have been keeping house for him.  Mr.
Broeker's partnership with Mr. Michael lasted until 1885, when the
present organization was established and has since been in successful
operation.  During the existence of the first firm they made 300,000
bricks per annum, making in all 3,000,000 and for the past three 
seasons the present firm has made 1,000,000 or 333,000 per year. 
During the war Mr. Broeker was a strong Union man, and when hostili-
ties opened he was a home guard three months.  October 13, 1861, he
enlisted in Company E, Second Missouri Regiment Artillery, for three
years or during the war.  This company was commanded by Capt. Fox,
and Mr. Broeker was in service one year and ten months, being mostly
in St. Louis, at Jefferson Barracks.  He was discharged in August,
1863, at St. Louis, his services being no longer needed.  Mr. Broeker
is a Republican in his political views, and a member of St. Peter's
Church.

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