Title: Brumder Family and Milwaukee German Ancestry Research Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1844-2014

Creator:

• Brumder family

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 229; PH Milwaukee Mss 229

Quantity: 3.4 cubic feet (9 archives boxes), 3.6 cubic feet of photographs (4 archives boxes and 4 flat boxes), and 1.2 cubic feet of negatives (6 negative boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center and the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers and photographs documenting the Brumder family of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and George Brumder Sr.'s founding of the Germania Publishing Company (later North American Press). The papers consist of correspondence between family and friends, Brumder business records, the Pine Lake property (Waukesha County, Wisconsin), and articles and research surrounding Milwaukee German ancestry. Scrapbooks, photographs, and negatives capture family celebrations and outings including George F. and Thekla Brumder's Panama Canal trip. Also included are research and family histories of Milwaukee surnames with German ancestry conducted and compiled by E.J. Brumder Jr.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil00229

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George Brumder Sr. immigrated to Milwaukee from Alsace-Lorraine in 1857 and first worked at the bookstore Germania selling German Bibles. He later purchased the building that housed the store and in 1873 took over Die Germania, a weekly German paper that he built into Milwaukee's largest German-language paper. In addition to the paper, George owned and managed a variety of businesses including the Germania Publishing Company (later North American Press) housed with the paper in the Germania Building. In the years after Brumder's death in 1910, his four sons ran the press and paper. In 1932 Die Germania was sold due to increasing anti-German sentiment; Brumder's son, George F. (continued) to operate the North American Press.

George F. married Thekla Wollaegeer Brumder and together they had three children. Their youngest son, Edward John (E.J.) Brumder, was born on February 6, 1907 in Milwaukee. E.J. attended the German-English Academy and in 1929 received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. After graduation E.J. married Marion Eleanor Briggs and together they returned to Milwaukee. E.J. helped his father George F. operate the publishing company and in 1958 became the corporation's last president. E.J. and Marion had two children, Edward John Brumder Jr. and Ann Ormsbee Brumder.

Not all spouses and siblings are shown in the chart below if they do not figure prominently in the collection.

George Brumder Sr. (1839-1910) m. Henriette Brandhorst Brumder (1841-1924)
	ch. Amalie Christine Brumder (1865-1959) m. George Phillip Mayer (1860-1942)
		ch. Erna Henrietta Mayer
		ch. Rudolph Herman Mayer
		ch. Dorothea Charlotte Mayer b. 1904)
		ch. Elizabeth Mayer (1909-1911)
	ch. Ida Johanna Brumder (1867-1935)
	ch. William Charles Brumder (1868-1929)
	ch. Emma Brumder (1870-1962)
	ch. Alfred W. Brumder (1871-1871)
	ch. Alfred Julius Brumder (1874-1897)
	ch. Henriette Mathilda Brumder (1875-1875)
	ch. Ella Brumder (1876-1979)
	ch. George Frederick Brumder, Sr. (1878-1961) m. Thekla Henrietta Wollaeger Brumder (1879-1950)
		ch. Henrietta Thekla Brumder (1908-1935)
		ch. George Gustav Brumder (1903-1965) m. Gladys Marjorie Gullun (1907-1971)
		ch. Edward John Brumder (1907-1998) m. Marion Eleanor Briggs (b. 1910)
			ch. Edward John Brumder Jr. (b. 1933)
			ch. Ann Ormsbee Brumder (b. 1936)
	ch. Herman Otto Brumder (1880-1950)
	ch. Herbert Paul Brumder (1885-1967)

Acquisition Information

Presented by E.J. Brumder Jr., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2014. Accession Number: M2014-091

Milwaukee Mss 229	Series: Ancestry and History
	Brumder family history and genealogy
Box   1 Folder   1	Birthdays, 1960
Box   1 Folder   2	Charitable work and giving, circa 1950-2000
Box   1 Folder   3-6	Descendants charts, notes, and family group records, 1991-1993, 2015
Box   1 Folder   7	Alfred J. Brumder, 1874-1897
Box   1 Folder   8-9	George Brumder, 1963-1997
Box   1 Folder   10	Aunt Amalia Brumder's guest book, 1903-1930
Box   1 Folder   11	A Corpus of Interesting Cousins, 2011
Box   1 Folder   12	Founding and history of Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1860
Box   1 Folder   13	Home of George Brumder's birth, undated
Box   2 Folder   1	George and Henriette Brumder 100th anniversary of wedding day, 1964
Box   2 Folder   2-9	Life story of George and Henriette Brumder, 1960
Box   3 Folder   1-6	Milwaukee German family ancestry, 1990-2010
Box   3 Folder   7	Andrae family history, undated
Box   3 Folder   8	Buestrin family genealogy, 1993
Box   3 Folder   9	Dousman family Milwaukee German ancestry, circa 1990s
Box   3 Folder   10-12	Friend family genealogy and history
Box   3 Folder   13	Fries family German ancestry, undated
Box   3 Folder   14	Frye family and friends, circa 1940s
Box   3 Folder   15	Gallun family Milwaukee German ancestry, 1995
Box   3 Folder   16	Giddings family descendants, 1993
Box   3 Folder   17	Kletzschand allied families genealogical and biographical, 1932
Box   3 Folder   18	Lindsay descendants, undated
Box   4 Folder   1	Nunnemacher family Milwaukee German ancestry, circa 1990
Box   4 Folder   2	O'Meara family Milwaukee German ancestry, 1985
Box   4 Folder   3	Pritzlaff, John, history, 1844-1900
Box   4 Folder   4	Sivyer William, biographical sketch, 1958
Box   4 Folder   5	Steven's family in Neenah, 1854-1920
Box   4 Folder   6-7	Streissguth family ancestry, 1940s, 1992
Box   4 Folder   8	Tieran family genealogy, undated
Box   4 Folder   9	Tuthill family descendants, 1867
Box   4 Folder   10	Uihlein, Benedickt Josef, forbearers and descendants, 1953
Box   4 Folder   11-12	Van Dyke family ancestry and history, 1990, 2013-2014
Box   4 Folder   13	Whitney genealogy, undated
Box   4 Folder   14	Winkler and Hitz family histories, 1990-2003
Box   4 Folder   15	Winkler and Wrightman forbearers and descendants, 1987
Box   4 Folder   16	Wollaeger, Franz Carl Ludwig, family tree, circa 1940
	Series: Correspondence	⇧
Box   5 Folder   1-3	Brumder family, 1924, 1928-2000
Box   5 Folder   4-5	Brumder siblings, 1925
Box   5 Folder   6-7	Alfred Brumder to George and Henrietta Brumder, 1895-1907
Box   5 Folder   8-10	E.J. Brumder, 1932-2014
Box   5 Folder   11	Oliver Gallun to E.J Brumder, 1997
Box   5 Folder   12	Else Henrietta Muller, 1959-1963
Box   5 Folder   13	George and Henrietta love letter excerpts, 1863-1864
Box   5 Folder   14	Henrietta Brumder's letter to children regarding Pine Lake property, 1923
Box   5 Folder   15	Henrietta Brumder's correspondence to husband and brother, 1869-1887
Box   5 Folder   16	William C. Brumder, circa 1890s
Box   5 Folder   17	Brumder Europe correspondence, undated
Box   6 Folder   1	Brumder German correspondence, 1959-1964
	Series: Articles and Writings	⇧
Box   6 Folder   2-3	E.J. Brumder Jr. newsletters and pamphlets, 1930s-1980s
Box   6 Folder   4	E.J. Brumder Jr. family and friends newsletters, 2000-2013
Box   6 Folder   5-6	E.J. and Marion Brumder newspaper articles, 1930s-1960s
Box   6 Folder   7	Brumder family newspaper articles and notes, 1930s-1960s
Box   6 Folder   8	Andrew Finnie newspaper articles and letters, 1961-1968
Box   6 Folder   9	“A Story of German Americans,” 1990
Box   6 Folder   10	History of German language newspaper, Die Germania, 1873-1934
Box   6 Folder   11	History of Germania, 1941
Box   6 Folder   12	Germania Publishing Company minute book, 1889
Box   6 Folder   13	North American press, 1989
Box   6 Folder   14	Henrietta Brumder's birthday poem, 1921
	Series: Celebrations and Travels	⇧
Box   7 Folder   1	Humor and songs, undated
Box   7 Folder   2-4	Brumder 140th family anniversary, 2004
Box   7 Folder   5	E.J. Brumder trip, undated
Box   7 Folder   6	George Brumder trip to Europe with grandchildren, 1889
Box   7 Folder   7	Marion Briggs Brumder autographs, circa 1900
Box   7 Folder   8	Pine Lake boat tour, 1895
Box   7 Folder   9	E.J. and Marion Brumder person records, 1987-1996
	Series: Property Rights	⇧
Box   7 Folder   10-12	Pine Lake/Villa Henrietta, deeds, agreements, and maps, 1892-1956
Box   8 Folder   1-6	Pine Lake/Villa Henrietta, deeds, agreements, and maps, 1892-1956 (continued)
	Series: Brumder Business	⇧
Box   8 Folder   7-8	Applied Power Industries Inc. information, 1965, 1968
Box   8 Folder   9	Blackhawk Manufacturing Company, 1959-1960
Box   8 Folder   10	Enerpac Applied Power Inc., 1980-1982
Box   9 Folder   1-2	Enerpac Applied Power Inc., 1981-1986
Box   9 Folder   3	Henrietta Corporation, 1953-1954, 1962-1964
Box   9 Folder   4	Oakland Road Association, 1929-1933, 1962-1966
PH Milwaukee Mss 229	Series: Photographs, Scrapbooks, and Negatives	⇧
	Photographs
Box   1 Folder   1-14	Family and friends, 1860s-1990s
Box   1 Folder   15	E.J. Brumder school photographs, 1920s
Box   1 Folder   16	E.J. Brumder at Cornell, 1920s
Box   1 Folder   17	Brumder Christmas Album, 1997
Box   1 Folder   18	Valerie and E.J. Brumder, 1998
Box   2 Folder   1	Boys School, undated
Box   2 Folder   2	RAJ Chemistry Lab, undated
Box   2 Folder   3	Germania Building, undated
Box   2 Folder   4	50th class reunion, 1958
Box   2 Folder   5	Herbert Brumder as infant, undated
Box   2 Folder   6	George Brumder with his office secretary, 1876-1896
Box   2 Folder   7-11	Views of Pine Lake property, 1892-1896
Box   3 Folder   1	Cream City Brewing Company, undated
Box   3 Folder   2	George Brumder portraits, undated
Box   3 Folder   3	18th Street Home, undated
Box   3 Folder   4	Lord Fitz William Pack, 1931
Box   3 Folder   5	Herbert Brumder, 1901, 1937
Box   3 Folder   6	Grandma's 80th birthday, 1921
Box   3 Folder   7	Henriette Brumder confirmation, 1921
Box   3 Folder   8	Milwaukee Academy track team, 1905
Box   3 Folder   9	Herman Brumder, 1898, 1920
Box   3 Folder   10	Marriage, Bill Brumder to June Allen Johnson, 1934
Box   3 Folder   11	Emma Dorothea at marriage of Amalie Christine Brumder, 1896
Box   3 Folder   12	Unidentified photographs
Box   3 Folder   13	Edward Brumder birth certificate
Box   4 Folder   1-2	Milwaukee homes, 1890-1910
Box   4 Folder   3	Madison Alumni Association, 1979-1980
Box   4 Folder   4	Active Member of Iota Chapter of Mu Delta Sigma, 1923-1924
Box   4 Folder   5	Milwaukee Hunt Club, circa 1930
Box   4 Folder   6	Lake Julia vacation, 1956
	Photograph albums
Box   5 Folder   1	Buffalo Exposition, 1901
Box   5 Folder   2	Crandall family, undated
Box   5 Folder   3	Home of Edward Uihle in Wicker Park Chicago, undated
Box   5 Folder   4	Brumder family, undated
Box   5 Folder   5-6	Villa Henrietta, 1892-1933
	Scrapbooks
	Friends and family scrapbook
Box   6 Folder   1	1969-1972
Box   7 Folder   1	1967-1977
Box   7 Folder   2	George F. and Thekla Brumder Panama Canal trip, 1913
Box   8 Folder   1	Alfred J. Brumder scrapbook, 1890-1892
	Negatives
Box   9	1900-1925
Box   10	1924-1929
Box   11	1929-1931
Box   12	1932-1936
Box   13-14	1857-1918, , undated