Bio of August C. BRUESKE (b.1873), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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AUGUST C. BRUESKE (1898)

August C. Brueske, who owns and farms the north half of the northwest
quarter of section 34, Hazel Run township, is a native of Germany, where 
he was ushered into existence July 28, 1873.

August C. is a son of Herman and Johanna Brueske, both natives of Germany.
They came to the United States in 1875 and first located in Nicollet,
Minnesota, where the father followed his trade of carpenter.  He later 
moved to Renville county and bought a forty-acre tract of land.  In the 
terrible blizzard of January 12, 1888, he was frozen to death, the body 
not being found until a week afterward.  The mother is still living, 
making her home with her son on the farm in Hazel Run township.

August Brueske was only two years of age on coming to the United States.  
He secured his schooling in Renville county and was fourteen years of age 
at the time of the death of his father.  The family continued to live in
Renville county many years after.  In 1898 Mr Brueske came to Yellow
Medicine county and purchased his present farm, where he has since made 
his home.  He conducts a general farming business, including the raising 
of stock for the market.

Mr. Brueske is unmarried, his mother and a sister, Bertha, keeping house 
for him.  They are members of the German Lutheran Church.

Source: "A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose
Published 1914