Yavapai County AZ Archives Biographies.....Brecht, Frederick G. 1848 - living in 1896
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Author: McFarland & Poole

p. 498-499

  FREDERICK G. BRECHT. The career of this gentleman as a subject of "Uncle Sam"
is an excellent example of what can be accomplished by those of foreign birth
who seek a home on our shores. Mr. Brecht was born in Baden, Germany, December
18, 1848, and while growing up, besides receiving the usual educational
advantages of the German youth, he served an apprenticeship at the blacksmith's
trade, and thoroughly mastered it in three years. He was left fatherless and
motherless when quite young, and when he was eighteen years of age he decided to
come to America, for he had no home ties to bind him to the Fatherland. He
landed in New York City, and after working at his trade there for two years, he
made his way to San Francisco, Cal., where he arrived in 1868, but he was in
various places until 1869, when he began working at his trade in Yuma, Arizona
Territory, where he remained busily employed until 1871. He then made his way to
Reno, Nev., but in the fall of that year came to Prescott and worked at his
trade for others until 1872, when he established a shop of his own near where he
is now located, but came to his present stand in 1873, where he has since held
forth. The place was formerly used as a flour depot, but Mr. Brecht has rebuilt,
improved and put on additions until it is a commodious and very conveniently
arranged establishment. In 1882 he rented his shop and went on a trip East, but
since his return has resumed the management of his establishment, which is
without doubt the best of the kind in Prescott. Like all native Germans, Mr.
Brecht has always been thrifty and persevering, and as a natural sequence he has
met with success in his business ventures, and is regarded as one of the
substantial business men of Prescott. Besides his shop he also owns other
valuable property in Prescott, and has a very pleasant and comfortable home and
a valuable farm six miles north of Prescott, which he devotes to agriculture and
the raising of stock. In 1877 Mr. Brecht led to the marriage altar Miss
Crezensia Holzschue, a native of Germany, from the Kingdom of Wurtemberg. Mr.
Brecht is an enthusiastic Mason, and is a member of Aztlan Lodge, No. 1, of
Prescott, and in this honorable order has attained to the Ivanhoe Commandery at
Prescott. He is also a Shriner and belongs to Al Malaikah Temple at Los Angeles.


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From:

A Historical and Biographical Record of the Territory of Arizona
Published by
McFarland & Poole, Chicago, 1896


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