Bio: Braun, William (1865 - 19??)

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Surnames: Braun, Meyer, Frey, Vollenweider, Bearis

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

Braun, William (14 November 1865 - 19??)

William Braun, president and general superintendent of the Braun Bros. Company, at Athens, Wisconsin, and one of the representative business men of Marathon county, was born November 14, 1865, in Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, and is a son of Mathias Braun, of an early Wisconsin family, of German extraction.

William Braun attended the public schools until he was thirteen years of age and then began to assist his father on the home farm and remained until he was eighteen years old when he went to work in mills as a sawyer, after which he worked for about seven years in Wausau as a cooper. In 1907, after the death of his brother, the late Joseph Braun, he bought an interest in the Braun Bros. Company and has been actively identified with this business ever since.

On September 27, 1892, Mr. Braun was married to Miss Mary Meyer, who was born in Switzerland and was eight years old when she accompanied her parents, Stephen and Mary (Frey) Meyer to Marathon County where she was reared and married. Her parents live on a farm, and her mother died in 1908. She was the third youngest born of their children, the others being: Joseph, Emil and Robert; Anna, now deceased, was the wife of John Vollenweider; Josephine was the wife of Peter Bearis; and August and Albert. Four children make up the family of Mr. and Mrs. Braun: Albert, Lucy, William and Marie, all attending school and Miss Lucy belongs to the graduating class of 1914. The family is of the Catholic faith and Mr. Braun is a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters. In his political views he is a Democrat.