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JOHN M. BRUNSWICKUnexpected Denth of This Well Known Billiard-Table Manufacturer.The public will be somewhat surprised to lenm thismorning of the i n death, at half-past 1 o’clockyesterday afteru M John M. Brunswick, the wellknown billiard manufacturer, at hie residenceon Grandview te, Walnut Iiills, For a weekpast Mr. Brunswick had been unwell and absent from hie place of business, but his illness was not considered at all serious until just before the end came. His disease was of the heart.Mr. Brunswick was born in Brengarten, Switzerland, October 16, 181ft, and was, therefore, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. He came to this country ill his fifteenth year, landing in New York Citv. where for six mouths he worked as an errand boy in a German establishment of that city. He then went to Philadelphia,'where he served a four-years' apprenticeship to the carriage making trade; going thence to Harrisburg, where, will serving as a journeyman, he married Miss Louisa Griner. A year later he came to this city, first obtaining employment with the firm of Bruce Bros., then prominent carriage makers, and afterwards with Lawyer Co., a firm doing business upon the present Bite of the Mechanics’ Institute. At the expiration of two years he went to work at the Nulton Omnibus Manufactory, but this concern breaking lip he was compelled to seek his fortune in another channel, and succeeded In obtaining employment as second steward on river steamboat, commanded by the late Capt. Thomas Eckert. At the end of six months he was promoted to be steward and in this capacity served two years saving a neat little sum of money.He next embarked in business for himself as a carriage maker, first doing business on Walnut street where the Gibson House now stands and afterwards on Fifth street east of Broadway. While here his attention was drawn to the introduction of billiards in the West and the need of asnauufactory for building them. lie disposed of his carriage factory and embarked in the new industry. From this iime until his death his career is familiar to all. First be made a name for himself as a maker of the tables, later extending his reputation by the combination with the Julius Balke concern, until now as the Brunswick.Balke-Collender ' Co., it has acquired a natioual reputation and absolutely has a monopoly of the business.In politics Mr. Brunswick was a Democrat, and at one time bad some aspirations, but one term in the Legislature 1872-3 satisfied him apd ho retired. He has since been importuned to allow the use of his name to advance the interests of that party, but has steadfastly refused. A widow and five children grown to maturity survive him, and to them he leaves a haudsome competency as the result of his life’s work.The five children are Mrs. M. M. Marks, Mrs. M. Bensinger, Mrs. Abe Reis, Mrs. L S. Deutsch and Bcnj. H. Brunswick.Mr. Brunswick was a member of the Order of Odd Fellows. During the war he was a Quartermaster General in the Union army.
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Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Mon, Jul 26, 1886
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