George H. Broesamle Biography, Lapeer County, Michigan

This Biography extracted from “Portrait and Biographical Record of 
Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan…”, published be Chapman 
Bros., Chicago (1892), p. 1046

This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives.

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PROF. GEORGE H. BROESAMLE, Principal of the Imlay City High School, was 
born at Little Falls, Herkimer County, N. Y., January 10, 1856. He is 
the son of George Broesamle, a native of Wurtemburg, Germany, where his 
birth occurred in 1831. He came to the United States when eighteen 
years of age and located at Little Falls, N. Y., where he remained 
until 1866. During that time he worked at the trade of carpenter and 
joiner, and in the above-named year came to Bloomer Township, Lapeer 
County, near Carson City, this State, where he purchased a farm. The 
mother of our subject was before her marriage Caroline Miner, a native 
of Saxony, Germany. She came to the United States with her parents when 
sixteen years of age, and met and married our subject's father at 
Little Falls, N. Y.; she is still living.

   The gentleman of whom we write remained at home until reaching the 
age of nineteen years when he worked on a farm one summer in order to 
get the wherewithal to attend school. He entered the Greenville High 
School and was a student there off and on for two years, his 
irregularity being occasioned by his teaching every alternate term, in 
the meantime keeping up his classes in the High School. After 
graduating from the High School he entered the Agricultural College, in 
1878, and took the equivalent of one year's study. He taught the 
succeeding winter, and in the spring of 1879, entered the State Normal 
School at Ypsilanti, from which he was graduated in 1880. After 
teaching for a time he was appointed Principal of the Marlette school, 
a position which he held satisfactorily for three years. He then came 
to Imlay City in 1885 where he has since been Principal.

   Mr. Broesamle was married August 22, 1883, to Miss Mary E. Lee, of 
Marlette, this State. Mrs. Broesamle was a daughter of Samuel Lee, a 
Methodist minister. Her fattier died in 1881; he was a native of Little 
Falls, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Broesamle have two children-Sarah and Paul. 
Prof. Broesamle and his wife are members in good standing of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, of Imlay City. Our subject is a member of 
the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Imlay City Lodge, No. 341. In 
politics he is independent, reserving the right to vote for the best 
man.



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