Bio of BRUNSKILL, Frank W. (b.1881), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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F. W. BRUNSKILL (Frank W. Brunskill) - Vol III, pg 191-192
One of the most popular and highly esteemed citizens of Minneapolis is F. W.
Brunskill, chief of detectives, with an office in the City Hall. He is a
self-made man in the truest sense of the word and the success he has achieved is
well merited. Mr. Brunskill was born on the 2d of January, 1881, in Dubuque,
Iowa, a son of Simon and Clara Brunskill. His father was born in Iowa and
followed mining in that state until 1919, when he came to Minneapolis, where he
is living, at the age of sixty-five years. Mrs. Brunskill was an orphan at the
time of her marriage. She is also living, and is sixty-six years of age.
In the acquirement of his education, F. W. Brunskill attended the public schools
of Dubuque to the fourth grade and later in life attended night school at the
Minneapolis Young Men's Christian Association. At an early age he accepted a
position in a butcher shop, a connection he maintained for two years, and he
then became associated with the Municipal Lighting Company of Dubuque for one
year. He was an office boy in the office for a well known physician and surgeon
of Dubuque for a year and then resigned to accept a position as a sawyer in a
sawmill. Pour years later he entered the coal business, in which he was active
for a year and he then obtained a position in a brewery, where he remained six
years. In 1906 he came to Minneapolis and for one year was associated with the
C. A. Smith Lumber Company, and later was for four years in the employ of the
Minneapolis Brewing Company. On the 25th of March, 1911, he was appointed a
detective on the Minneapolis force, and for two years he had charge of the
purity squad and then was attached to the motorcycle squad for one aad one-half
years. His devotion to duty and his efficiency caused his appointment to the
office of head master of the detective bureau. In 1919 he resigned and entered
the county attorney's office, where he remained for over a year. Not long after
he resigned from the force the business men of Minneapolis got together and
decided that he was too valuable a man to lose. Their minds made up, they lost
no time in inducing Mr. Brunskill again to take up his detective work and he was
appointed chief of the bureau on the 8th of August, 1921. He has proven that the
confidence of his friends has not been misplaced and in this short space of time
has succeeded in making Minneapolis anything but a safe haven for crooks. A very
brilliant career is prophesied for him by his many friends and he is indeed a
representative member of his profession.
In the city of Minneapolis, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. F. W. Brunskill
to Miss Martha Barge, a daughter of Adam Barge of Minneapolis, who was for many
years engaged in contracting in this city and he was a highly esteemed and
respected citizen. To Mr. and Mrs. Brunskill one daughter has been born:
Genevieve, twenty-one years of age, who is the wife of Martin Rue of
Minneapolis, an automobile man, and they have one child, a boy of five years.
Since attaining his majority Mr. Brunskill has given his stanch support to the
republican party and the principles for which it stands. He has never sought nor
desired political preferment though he maintains an active interest in party
affairs and is well versed on all important questions and issues of the day. His
religious faith is manifest in his membership in the Lutheran church and he is a
generous contributor to its support. Fraternally he is identified with the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Brunskill finds his greatest recreation
in hunting and fishing. He is a man of genial and pleasing personality, has the
genius for making and keeping friends, and all who know him greatly admire and
respect him.