George Brumder

In 1857, at the age of 18, he emigrated to Wisconsin with his older sister, Anna Maria, to attend her wedding to a Lutheran minister, Gottlieb Reim.

George's first employment was clearing land near Helenville, Wisconsin, though shortly after arriving in the United States, he bade his sister and new brother-in-law farewell and set off on foot on a 45-mile journey to Milwaukee.

[3] Brumder soon joined Grace Lutheran Church in Milwaukee where he met his future wife, Henriette Brandhorst, a Prussian immigrant who was born in 1841 and arrived in America in 1869.

Seventeen years after Brumder's 1910 death, the printing presses were removed from the basement levels of the building, giving the city its first underground parking garage.

Upon his death, his wife received letters of condolence from President Taft and many leading officials and citizens of the country, and the flag at Milwaukee City Hall was flown at half-staff.