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Author: Will T. Hale

   ADAM A. BRANDAU. The attractive little city of Clarksville, the capital of

Montgomery county, has a fine quota of retail establishments of modern equipment

and facilities, and specially prominent among these is the grocery store of the

firm of Keesee & Brandau, of which the subject of this review is the junior

member. This concern has an establishment that is not excelled by any of the

kind in northern Tennessee, its stock being select and comprehensive and the

appointments of metropolitan order. Catering to a thoroughly representative

patronage, the firm controls a business that has reached an average annual

aggregate of ninety thousand dollars, and in the upbuilding of this splendid

enterprise Mr. Brandau has been the dominating force. In the conduct of the

business he was originally associated with his honored father, and this alliance

continued until the death of the former. He is one of the sterling citizens and

progressive business men of Clarksville and his high standing in the community

fully entitles him to specific recognition in this publication.



   Adam Albert Brandau was born at Portsmouth, Scioto county, Ohio, on the 8th

of February, 1865, and is a son of William and Anna (Miller) Brandau, both

natives of Germany. The father was nineteen years of age and the mother eleven

at the time of the immigration of the respective families to America and both

established their residence in southern Ohio. William Brandau was born on the 3d

of July, 1833, and his wife on the 15th of January, 1846. They became the

parents of seven sons, of whom five are living and one of whom is Dr. John W.

Brandau of Clarksville, who is individually mentioned on other pages of this

work. William Brandau was long and prominently identified with the pig-iron

industry, in Ohio and Tennessee, and in 1892 he established his residence in

Clarksville, where in that year he became associated with his son Albert A., in

the retail grocery business, under the title of William Brandau & Son. This

alliance continued until his death, which occurred on the 22d of October, 1895.

His widow still resides in Clarksville, and concerning them, further data are

given in the previously mentioned sketch of the career of their son, John W.,

elsewhere in this volume, so that a repetition of the information is not

requisite in the article here presented.



   Adam A. Brandau gained his preliminary education in the public schools of his

native town and those of Clarksville, Tennessee, where he completed the

curriculum of the high school. He later attended the high school in the city of

Nashville for a short period and then completed a thorough course in the

Nashville Commercial College. His initial work after leaving school was that of

clerk in a dry-goods establishment at Clarksville, and he continued to be thus

identified with that line of enterprise until 1892, when, as previously noted in

this context, he became associated with his father in the grocery business in

Clarksville. About two years later his honored father passed away, and he

thereafter continued the enterprise individually until 1910, when he formed a

partnership with John W. Keesee, who has proved a valued and able coadjutor in

the carrying on of the large and flourishing business. The establishment of the

firm is conceded to be one of the finest retail groceries in northern Tennessee

and is eligibly located at the corner of Third and Franklin.



   Mr. Brandau takes a lively interest in all that concerns the moral, social

and material welfare of his home community, and he has served nine years as a

member of the city council, in which he represents the Eighth ward and is

chairman of the police committee. He has been faithful and insistent in the

furtherance of wise economy and yet progressive policies in the municipal

government, and that his services have not lacked popular appreciation needs no

further evidence than that afforded in his long tenure of office. He is a

stalwart in the local camp of the Democratic party, and is affiliated with the

Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights & Ladies of Honor,

the National Union, and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. Both he

and his wife are most zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South,

and he is a steward of the church in Clarksville, as well as a superintendent in

the Sunday-school.



   December 26, 1888, bore record of the marriage on that date of Mr. Brandau

and Miss Jennie Julia Rick. She was born at Clarksville May 21, 1867, and is a

daughter of the late John and Christine Rick, both of whom died in Clarksville.

Mr. and Mrs. Brandau have two children, Martha Anna and Lela Christina.



Additional Comments:
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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913





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