Bio of Brusehaver, John  Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1920.
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Brusehaver, John (p. 265), who was the practical founder of what is now
one of the fine farms of West Albany Township, situated in section 5, was
born in Mecklenburg, Germany, where he grew to manhood and married Sophia
Mahler. In the late seventies he came with his family to Minnesota, and
settled first in Gillford Township, Wabasha County. After a while he
bought the farm above mentioned, in section 5, West Albany, which
contained 160 acres, but had a poor set of buildings. He at once set to
work to improve it, a task that took him a number of years, but on which
he made good progress, erecting new buildings, and cultivating the soil
with profitable results until 1903, when he leased the place to his son
Charles F. and took up his residence, with his wife, in Lake City. There
he died March 23, 1908, and his wife on January 15, 1912. Their married
life was tinged with joys and sorrows, in which the sorrow at one time
seemed to predominate, as within one month, during an epidemic of
diphtheria, they lost four of their five children, three sons and a
daughter, the only survivor being Charles F., now the owner of the home
farm.