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Title: History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Raum, Green B. (Green Berry), 1829-1909
Subjects: Republican Party (U.S.)
Publisher: Chicago, Rollins Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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.59. Knights Templar, also a member of the Union League Club of Chicago,and of the Western Society of Engineers. Mr. Mallette is a public spirited manand has done much for Chicago. •JOSEPH BRUCKER. -rph Brucker was born at Ischl. Upper Austria, in that picturesque partof the Alps known as Salzkammergut. October 30. 1849. He was the eldest sonb Brucker, a prominent merchant of that place. Young Brucker re-: I a thorough elementary and college education, graduating in 1867. Heafterward added to his knowledge of the languages and philosophy at variousinstitutions, finally taking a course at the University of Vienna. Being of a veryliberal turn of mind, with a leaning toward radicalism. Mr. Brucker was at-tracted to the Unite; ? He left his native country in the spring of 1871.came to America, and proceeded directly to Milwaukee. At this time he hadneither relative nor personal friend anywhere in the United States, but he soonling .-mployment with the engineering party that surveyed 710
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711 the line of the Milwaukee & Northern, now the Superior Division of the Chi-cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. Following this, he became clerk in abookstore and from that humble position he was selected to become a teacherof German, Latin and history in the German and English Academy at Milwaukee. The quiet and conservative course of a teachers life was not suitable forthe active temperament and vivid mind of Mr. Brucker. He bought an interestin a radical German weekly, the Freidenker : this venture marks his entryupon a journalistic career, which continued until 1878. He then became in-terested in the land and immigration business in Northern Wisconsin, and toassist in this work of colonization he published a semi-monthly paper, DerAnsiedler in Wisconsin. Later he published Der Waldbote (Messenger ofthe Forestj, at Medford. Wis.; this paper is now in its eighteenth year and isstill in a flourishing condition. Mr. Brucker spent about ten years of hard work in the woods of

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