AMALIA (SINZ) BRICKBAUER
Amalia (Sinz) Brickbauer
From Sheboygan county marriage records: George Bruckbauer(sic) and Amalia Sinz (v.7 p.171) Sept. 5, 1892 at German Evangelical Church, Town of Russell, Sheboygan County George Bruckbauer Son of George Bruckbauer and Eva Staub Born Town of Russell, Sheboygan County Student of medicine at St. Louis, Missouri Amalia Sinz Daughter of Jacob Sinz and Annie Marie Horn Born Town of Russell, Sheboygan County Witnesses John Bruckbauer, Peter Bruckbauer, Annie Eggelhoff and Eva Bruckbauer ******** Dr. G.W. Brickbauer, Well Known Resident, Summoned Dr. G.W. Brickbauer, 81, passed away suddenly at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at his residence, 2111 Main street, New Holstein, after suffering a cerebral hemmorhage. Born in the town of Russell on May 21, 1867, the son of George and Eva Strub Brickbauer, he attended the rural school and then the Missouri Homeopathic College of Medicine at St. Louis where he graduated cum laude in March, 1885, receiving the Materi Medica award for rating the highest scholastically in his graduating class. He was married to Amalie Sinz of the town of Russell in September, 1892, and she passed away in 1896. On July 11, 1899, he was married to Martha Gutheil of Waukesha. Dr. Brickbauer practiced medicine for 53 years, starting in Elkhart Lake in 1895. In 1910 he moved to Plymouth where he became associated with Dr. E.A. Bruns. In 1924 he moved to Sheboygan where he took over the controlling interest in the Crocker Chair co. He returned to Plymouth in 1933. He served as president of the State Bank of Plymouth from 1918 to 1936, and was a director of the Plymouth Hotel Co. In 1938 he moved to Hilbert and practiced medicine there until 1944 when he moved to New Holstein. He served as village president at Elkhart Lake for three years. Purchasing the Elkhart Lake Light and Power Co. in 1904, he extended the service of the company to Crystal Lake, St. Cloud and Glenbeulah. In 1917 he built the hydro-electric plant near Crystal Lake and later sold it to the Wisconsin Gas and Electric Co. In 1907 he built the street car service between Elkhart Lake and Plymouth. Dr. Brickbauer was instrumental in getting the Chamber of Commerce started in Plymouth and served as president for the first two years; in getting the City of Plymouth to purchase electricity instead of manufacturing it; in getting the Rocky Knoll Sanitarium near Plymouth; in starting the Plymouth Building and Loan association and serving as it's first president. He was director of the Sheboygan Chamber of Commerce in 1926 and served as president from 1927 to 1929. He served as president of the Manufacturers' association in Sheboygan in 1929, and as director of the Sheboygan Civic Music association from 1929 to 1931, and was a former member of the Kiwanis and Elk's clubs. Survivors are his wife; a daughter, Miss Marie E. Brickbauer of New Holstein; brothre Gustave of Elkhart Lake; two sisters, Mrs. E.W. Burkhardt of Menomonee Falls and Mrs. W.W. Kreuter of Wautoma. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Erbe-Hoffmann Funeral home in New Holstein with the Rev. J.R. Seidler of St. John's Evangelical and Reformed church officiating. Burial will be made in the Elkhart cemetery. (No newspaper named, 1948 handwritten on the obituary)
GEORGE BRICKBAUER
George Brickbauer
Martha (Gutheil) Brickbauer
From Sheboygan county death records:
Martha Brickbauer nee Gutheil (v.60 p.460)
[wife of George Brickbauer]
Oct. 16, 1865-May 16, 1952
Daughter of Ferdinand Gutheil and Marie Hayssen
Born Kiel
Died from "hypostatic pneumonia, 4 days -fracture of right hip,
3 weeks -diabetes and senility"
Buried at Elkhart Lake Cemetery, Town of Rhine, Sheboygan County
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Rites Held Sunday for Mrs. Martha Brickbauer [Mrs. George Brickbauer]
Funeral services were held Sunday afternon in New Holstein for Mrs. Martha
Brickbauer, 86, who died at the Plymouth hospital Friday morning. She had
been hospitalized there for the past four weeks with a broken hip.
She was born in Kiel, October 16, 1865, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ferdinand Gutheil. She had lived in New Holstein since 1944. Her husband
died in 1948.
(1951 handwritten on obituary-no newspaper cited.)
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From Calumet county death records:
George W. Brickbauer (v.12 p.300)
Nov. 21, 1867-Oct. 24,1948
Husband of Martha Brickbauer
Son of George Brickbauer (born Germany) and Eva Strub (born Germany)
Born Town of Russel, Sheboygan County –doctor of medicine
Died from “cerebral hemorrhage –arteriosclerosis”
Buried at Elkhart Lake
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Marie Brickbauer, 75, of 1813 Pleasant St., New Holstein, died Saturday at
Valley Manor Nursing Home, Plymouth.
She was born Dec. 23, 1906, at Elkhart Lake, a daughter of George W. and
Martha Gutheil Brickbauer. She attended Plymouth schols and was valedict-
orian of her high school graduating class at Plymouth in 1923. She attended
Lawrence College and was a member of the PHSMU Sorority and the Athena Literary
Society.
The family operated the Curtiss Hotel in Plymouth from 1933 to 1939 and then
moved to Hilbert, where Miss Brickbauer assisted her father in his medical
practice until 1948. She was later employed as a society Reporter, retiring
after 30 years.
Survivors are several cousins.
The cremains will be interred at St. John Cemetery, Elkhart Lake.
(11 Dec. 1982 handwritten on obituary-no newspaper cited)
CARL BRICKBAUER
Carl Brickbauer
From Sheboygan county birth records: Charles Brickbauer [also shown as “Breckbower”] (v.13 p.161) Born April 12, 1871 in Town of Russell, Sheboygan County Son of George Brickbauer (farmer) and Ava Strub ******** Carl Wm., student der Homeopathic Medical College von Missouri, April 12, 1871-April 16, 1892 Sohn von George and Eva Brickbauer. ********* Buried in St. Paul's E and R Cemetery, Elkhart Lake, Wis.