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Author: Will T. Hale

   JOHN W. BRANDAU, M. D. The exacting profession of medicine and surgery makes

great requisitions upon those who would attain to success and prestige in its

ranks, and Dr. Brandau has fully measured up to these requirements, as is

manifest in the high standing which he maintains in his chosen vocation. He has

been engaged in the active practice of his profession at Clarksville, the

beautiful little capital city of Montgomery county, for more than a score of

years and here has a substantial and representative business, concrete voucher

for his ability and personal popularity. He is one of the leading members of his

profession in this part of the state and had had ample experience in active

practice prior to establishing his home in Clarksville.



   Dr. John William Brandau was born in Vinton county, Ohio, on the 11th of

November, 1857, and is a son of William and Anna (Miller) Brandau, both natives

of Rothenburg, Hessen Darmstadt, Germany, where the former was born on the 3d of

July, 1833, and the latter on the 15th of January, 1846, their marriage having

been solemnized in the United States, to which country Mrs. Brandau came with

her parents when she was a girl of eleven years.



   In the excellent schools of his native land William Brandau gained his early

education and there also he gained practical experience in connection with

industrial activities. He was nineteen years of age at the time of the family

immigration to America and his parents established their home in southern Ohio,

as did also the Miller family. In that section of the old Buckeye State his

marriage to Anna Miller was solemnized, their acquaintanceship having been

formed in their childhood days in Germany. They became the parents of seven

children, all sons, and of the number five are living. Of these Albert Adam

Brandau is engaged in the retail grocery business at Clarksville, a line of

enterprise in which he virtually succeeded his honored father. William Brandau

was long and prominently identified with the pig-iron industry, his association

with this line of enterprise having been in the state of Ohio until 1867, when

he assumed charge of a pig-iron manufactory at Brownsport Furnace, in Decatur

county, Tennessee. Later he was an interested principal in the LaGrange Iron

Works, in Stewart county, this state, where he remained until the business was

closed out, after which, in 1892, he removed with his family to Clarksville,

Montgomery county, where he was engaged in the retail grocery business until his

death, which occurred on the 22d of October,. 1895. He was a man of sterling

character and much business ability, and he ever held the popular esteem which

he richly merited. He was a stalwart adherent of the Democratic party, was a

consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, as is also his

widow, who still resides in Clarksville, and he was prominently identified with

the Masonic fraternity, in which he served as master of his lodge in Stewart

county and later as master of Clarksville Lodge, No, 89, Free and Accepted Masons.



   Dr. John W. Brandau gained his preliminary education in the public schools of

Deeaturville, this state, and those of Portsmouth, Ohio, and in preparation for

the work of his chosen profession he was matriculated in the medical department

of Nashville University, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of

1881 and from, which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. To fortify

himself further for his exacting profession he thereafter took a post-graduate

course in the celebrated old Jefferson Medical College, in the city of

Philadelphia, in 1885, and in 1900 and 1904 he pursued post-graduate studies and

research in the New York Polyclinic, in the national metropolis. He has spared

neither time nor effort in keeping abreast of the advances made in medicine and

surgery, and avails himself of the best standard and periodical literature of

his profession.



   For the first decade of his professional service Dr. Brandau was engaged in

active general practice in Stewart county, Tennessee, where he was physician and

surgeon for the LaGrange Iron Works, in addition to controlling a very

appreciable private practice. In January, 1891, he removed to Clarksville, where

he has since been engaged in successful general practice and where his clientage

is of distinctively representative character. He is an appreciative and valued

member of the Montgomery County Medical Society, the Tennessee State Medical

Society and the Tri-State Medical Association, besides which he holds membership

in the American Medical Association. Reared in the faith of the Democratic

party, the Doctor has never wavered in his allegiance thereto, and he is a

broad-minded and progressive citizen, taking specially deep interest in those

agencies which tend to advance the general welfare of his home community. He is

affiliated with Clarksville Lodge, No. 89, Free and Accepted Masons, and he and

his wife, as well as their children, are members of the Methodist Episcopal

church, South.



   On the 26th of January, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Brandau to

Miss Martha E. McMillan, daughter of the late Dr. William H. H. McMillan, who

was at that time engaged in the practice of his profession at Decaturville, and

who was one of the able and honored physicians and surgeons of that section of

Tennessee. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Dr.

and Mrs. Brandau: William H. is a member of the class of 1915 in the medical

department of Vanderbilt University, at Nashville; Iris is at the parental home

and was graduated in Ward Seminary, at Nashville, as a member of the class of

1910; George McMillan is a member of the class of 1915 in the Southwestern

Presbyterian University, at Clarksville, Tennessee; Alberta is a student in Ward

Seminary, in Nashville; and John Alston is attending the public schools of

Clarksville. The family is most popular in the social activities of Clarksville

and the home of Dr. Brandau is a veritable center of good cheer and generous

hospitality.



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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