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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

ELMER D. BRANDENBURG.

    Elmer D. Brandenburg, attorney at law, and in the real estate and insurance
business in Hammond, Indiana, belongs to the younger and progressive element of
the city and has gained quite a reputation and a prominent place among the
members of the bar and the business men since identifying himslf with Hammond.

    Mr. Brandenburg was born in Harrisburg, Ohio, October 13, 1871, being a son
of John W. and Eliza J. (England) Brandenburg, the former a native of Kentucky
and the latter of Ohio. His grandfather, Patterson C. Brandenburg, was born in
the early days of Kentucky history, and was a farmer, reaching the great age of
ninety-eight years. His wife Elizabeth died young, and they had five sons and
one daughter.

    John W. Brandenburg for a number of years operated a sawmill and a threshing
outfit at Harrisburg, Ohio. He came to Indiana in 1881, locating at Winamac,
where he lived until 1898, when he came to Hammond and is now in the employ of
the Chicago Telephone Company. He was a soldier in the Civil war, serving three
years as a private in Company F, Thirteenth Indiana Infantry, and was in the
battle of Shiloh and other hard-fought battles of that great struggle. He is not
identified with any church, but his wife is a Methodist. His wife's father was
David England, a native of Ohio, a soldier of the Civil war, and a farmer by
occupation. He died in Ohio at the age of sixty-three years, and his wife, who
was Matilda Brown, died in Hammond, Indiana, in 1903, at the age of seventy-one.
They had five sons and five daughters. John W. and Eliza J. Brandenburg had four
children : Eva, deceased; Elmer D.; Lacy A., wife of John M. Kellar, of Hammond;
and Oliver C., of Hammond.

    Elmer D. Brandenburg attended the public schools of Columbus, Ohio, and of
Winamac, Indiana. He afterward entered the University of Indianapolis, from
which he graduated in 1898, having taken the law course, and was admitted to the
bar the same year. He began his practice in Gas City, Grant county, and for two
years served as deputy prosecutor of that county. He located in Hammond in
February, 1903, and has had a successful practice since that time. In connection
with his brother Oliver, whose history is given below, he also conducts a real
estate and insurance business.

    December 26, 1899, Mr. Brandenburg married Miss Josephine C. Balfe, a
daughter of Colonel John C. and Vitalis Balfe. Mrs. Brandenburg is a member of
the Catholic church. Mr. Brandenburg is a member of Gas City Lodge No. 428, K.
of P., being past chancellor. His political sentiments incline to the Republican
party. He resides at 329 Sibley street, and he and his wife are numbered among
the popular members of Hammond society.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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