Charles W. Bremer Biography


	This biography appears on pages 653-654 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				CHARLES W. BREMER.

	The elevators of the northwest form important links in the chain 
that binds that section of the country with the rest of the United 
States, as they offer the farmer a market for his grain and in turn 
ship it to larger markets and to the great flour mills. The Bremer 
Elevator business at Bemis, South Dakota, is a prosperous enterprise 
ably managed by Charles W. Bremer, its proprietor. In addition to 
dealing in grain he also handles coal and live stock and is one of the 
substantial business men of Deuel county.  

	Mr. Bremer was born in Green Lake county, Wisconsin, on the 9th 
of September, 1878, and is one of a family of three sons and five 
daughters whose parents are Dedrich W. and Mary (Mahnke) Bremer, both 
of German ancestry. They were married in Wisconsin, where the father 
was employed in the pineries and upon railroad work until about 1880, 
when he removed with his family to South Dakota, locating in Deuel 
county adjoining the town of Bemis, where he purchased a quarter 
section of railroad land for two dollars per acre. He subsequently 
traded his farm for a hotel in Elkton, this state, which he conducted 
for two years. At the end of that time he returned to Deuel county and 
located in Clear Lake, where he was for eight years identified with the 
grain business. Eventually his son Charles succeeded him in that 
undertaking and he confined his attention to the live-stock business in 
Deuel county until the spring of 1913, when he removed to Harlem, 
Montana, where he and his wife still reside.  

	Charles W. Bremer was reared at home and received his education 
in the public schools. In early manhood he became thoroughly familiar 
with the grain business while working for his father and in 1898 went 
to Hanton, South Dakota, as manager for the McCall-Webster Elevator 
Company, remaining there for six months He next went to Clear Lake, 
where he worked for his father the same length of time and then took up 
his abode in Bemis, becoming manager of his father's business at that 
place. In 1903 he succeeded his father in the grain trade but 
discontinued operations at Clear Lake shortly afterward, devoting his 
entire time to his business at Bemis. He has become and important 
factor in the grain and cattle trade of Deuel county. He is energetic 
and careful in the management of his affairs and thoroughly reliable in 
all of his dealings.

	In June, 1902, Mr. Bremer was married to Miss Minnie E. Doring  
of Avon, Minnesota, and they have a son, Leonard Percival, born June 
28, 1903. Mr. Bremer is a republican in his, political belief and is 
the present supervisor of Goodwin township. Fraternally he belongs to 
Clear Lake Lodge, No. 144, I. O. O. F., and in his daily life 
exemplifies the admirable teachings of that order. He has contributed 
in no small measure to the development of Bemis and the surrounding 
country and is justly held in high esteem by those who know him.