Biography of Samuel Brammar, Saint Cloud, Osceola County, FL

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Transcribed from:  The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. 
III, page 330, 1923.

BRAMMAR, SAMUEL, one of the most progressive citizens and business men of Saint Cloud, Osceola 
County, claims the "Right Little Isle" of England as the place of his nativity, his birth 
having occurred at Hanley in Staffordshire on the 22nd of April, 1886.  He is a son of THOMAS 
and MARY (DARLING) BRAMMAR, of whose eleven children he was the ninth in order of birth.  He 
was reared and educated in his native land and there remained until 1907, when, shortly after 
attaining to his legal majority, he came to the United States and located at Trenton, New 
JERSEY, where he remained about three years and where he attended the School of Arts and 
Sciences.  He became identified with the building business at that place, and he resided 
for a time also at Princeton, New Jersey.

In the autumn of the year 1910 Mr. BRAMMAR came to Florida and engaged in contracting in 
mason work, with headquarters at Saint Cloud.  He erected several buildings here, and continued 
his contracting operations until 1915, since which time he has owned and conducted a well 
equipped clothing and shoe store which receives a substantial and representative supporting 
patronage.  He is a member of the County School Board in his home village, is chairman of the 
building committee having in charge the erection of the new library building at Saint Cloud, 
and is secretary of the local organization of the Ocean to Gulf Highway Association.  Mr. 
BRAMMAR is actively identified with the advancement of the citrus fruit industry in this 
section and is vice-president of the local Board of Trade, and was a leader in patriotic 
service in Osceola County in the period of the World war, he having been an executive in 
the local drives in support of Government war loans, Red Cross work, etc.  He is aligned 
loyally in the ranks of the democratic party, and is a Knight Templar Mason.

In 1915 Mr. BRAMMAR wedded Miss HARRIET BARTLETT, of Saint Cloud, and they have two sons, 
CHARLES HENRY and SAM NEILL.