Bio: Braun, John (1867 - 19??)

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Surnames: Braun, Stein, Phillippi, Meyer, Kropp, Meyer, Haehlke

----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Braun, John (30 March 1867 - 19??)

John Braun, junior member of the firm of Braun Bros. & Co., owners of saw mills and planing mills at Athens, Wis., conducting with increasing prosperity one of the large industrial plants here, was born in Fond du Lac County, Wis., March 30, 1867, and is a son of Mathias and Gertrude (Stein) Braun.

Mathias Braun and wife came to Wisconsin from Germany and settled first in Fond du Lac County, where he engaged in farming and lumbering, but the last thirty-one years of his life were spent in Marathon County. They had the following children: Joseph, who is deceased; William; John; Anton, who is deceased; Mary, who is deceased, was the wife of Peter Phillippi; Anna, who is the wife of Michael Meyer; Margaret, who is the wife of John Kropp; and Ablonia, who is the wife of Robert Meyer.

John Braun had very little chance in his youth to go to school as his father needed his help both on the home farm and in the woods. In 1882 the father and his sons went into business together, under the firm name of M. Braun & Sons, which later became as at present, Braun Bros. & Co. a name that is known for business integrity and efficiency all over and beyond Marathon County.

On June 7, 1893, Mr. Braun was married to Miss Emma Haehlke, a daughter of Edward Haehlke, a farmer in Marathon County, and they have had five children: Edward, Harry, Irene, Wilfred and Mathias, all surviving except Harry. The family belongs to the Catholic Church. Mr. Braun has always been a Democrat in politics and at present is serving in the office of deputy sheriff. He belongs to the Catholic Order of Foresters and to the F. O. E.