Claus Brandt Biography


	This biography appears on page 1240 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CLAUS BRANDT is a native of Hanover, Germany, and dates his birth 
from March 7, 1858. His parents, Claus and Annie (Bredehoeft) Brandt, 
spent their lives in the kingdom of Hanover and reared a family of six 
children, the subject of this review being the fifth of the number; the 
others are Angelus, who lives in Germany; John, a resident of Bon Homme 
county, South Dakota; Maggie, who has never left Hanover; Martha, 
deceased, and Annie, whose home is in the state of Kansas. 

	The early life of Claus Brandt was spent in his native land and he 
received a good education in the public schools of the same. In 1873, 
when fifteen years of age, he came to America and, settling in Missouri, 
engaged in farming, which vocation he followed in that state until 1884, 
when he changed his abode to Bon Homme county, South Dakota, locating in 
Jefferson township, where he bought a quarter section of land, to which 
he subsequently added a similar amount by purchase. Still later he 
bought an additional quarter section and in the fall of 1903 purchased 
an additional eighty acres, making his realty at this time four hundred 
acres, nearly all of which he has reduced to cultivation and improved 
with good buildings, and from the proceeds of which he has realized a 
handsome competence. 

	Mr. Brandt has devoted his attention exclusively to farming and 
stock raising and his success has been encouraging, he being at this 
time one of thc leading agriculturists of the township in which he 
resides as well as one of its most enterprising and progressive 
citizens. In politics he is a decided Republican and an active worker 
for his party, but he has never asked office at the hands of his fellow 
citizens, nor aspired to public station of any kind. 

	On the 3d day of October, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. 
Brandt and Miss Annie Kringer, the latter a native of Prussia and the 
daughter of John and Mary Ernestine (Schulz) Kringer, who came to the 
United States in 1869 and settled in Hardin county Iowa, later removing 
to Bon Homme, South Dakota, where their deaths subsequently occurred. To 
Mr. and Mrs. Brandt have been born six children, whose names are as 
follows: Angelus, John, Henry, Anna, Edward F. and Helena, all living 
and giving every promise of useful and honorable careers.