Outagamie County, WI - Biography of Capt. D. J. Brothers of Appleton, Kaukauna

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SUBJECT: Biography of Capt. D. J. Brothers of Appleton, Kaukauna
SUBMITTER: W. David Samuelsen
EMAIL: dsam@wasatch.com
DATE SUBMITTED: Apr 16, 1999
SURNAMES: BROTHERS
SOURCE: Record of the Pioneers of Outagamie County, Wisconsin; page 16, pub. 1898, The Post Publishing Co.


BIOGRAPHY:
CAPT. D. J. BROTHERS

Capt. D. J. Brothers was born in Canada. He came with his parents to Rochester, N.Y., when quite young, and in
May, 1861, came to Appleton. In 1862 he enlisted and helped organize Co. I. of the
Thirty-second Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, in which he was for two years second and first lieutenant. He
was in the famous march to the sea, and from the capture of Atlanta to the close of the war he held the responsible
position of assistant chief commissiary of subsistance of the seventeenth army corps on the staff of Gen. F. P. Blair.
After the close of the war, in 1865, he came to Kaukauna where he has resided ever since. He was twice elected
county superintendent of schools and has served several terms as supervisor and alderman; in 1876 he engaged in the
realestate and insurance business, which he has continued ever since. In 1894 he built the Hotel Brothers, now the
leading hotel in Kaukauna, and is now proprietor of the same.