Christian Friedrich BROCKMANN

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An in-depth study of the Cincinnati silversmiths, jewelers, watch ...

Elizabeth D. Beckman, Elizabeth D. Beckman - 1975 - 168 pages - Snippet view

BROCKMAN, CHRISTIAN F. (b. 1814, d. 1898) (w. 1839-1858) Christian F. Brock man first advertised in Cincinnati in 1839 (see included ad). Brock man worked as a clock and watchmaker and jeweler in Cincinnati from 1839 until 1858.

The Cincinnati Directory of 1850-1851 carried the ad below for Brockman. Christian Brockman was born in Germany in 1814.

CHRISTIAN F. BROCKMAN, farmer, P. O. Lynchburg, a highly cultured and esteemed German, residing in Clark Township, near Lynchburg, was born is Hanover. Germany, November 10, 1814. He is a son of Ernest and Catherine (EIbrecht) Brockman, deceased. Mr. Brockman was reared in Hanover, and received the rudiments of his education in the schools of that place. At the, age of sixteen, he commenced and served an apprenticeship of four years at watchmaking. He pursued his trade in the town of Osnabruck two years, then emigrated to America and settled in Georgetown, D. C., where he was employed in his trade three years. He then removed to the Queen City, and, after working at his trade for a Mr. Joseph two years, he opened a shop of his own and followed that business up to 1860, when he moved to his present farm. It contains 115 acres of well-improved land, and is adorned with a magnificent two-story brick residence, erected at a cost of $3,000. Mr. Brockman celebrated his marriage; November, 1841, with Miss Margaret Nawerth, a native of' Bavaria, born December 6,18'33, and a daughter of John A. and Rachel Nawerth, who emigrated to the United States in 1833. This union was blessed with nine children ; of these six are living, viz., Catherine; Louisa, wife of Frank Specs; Anna Amelia, wife of Frank Park; Emma, wife of Frank M. Evans ; Anna, Ernstine and Alice. Margaret, Doretta and Rachel are deceased. In 1850, Mr. Brockman's parents emigrated to America. They were both in the eighty-second year of their age, and, after a toil some voyage of fifteen weeks, Mrs. Brockman arrived at Cincinnati; Mr. Brockman died on the boat near Louisville from cholera, which was then prevalent. Mr. Brockman, our subject, is the youngest of a family of four children. He is a genial, hospitable man, and has many friends. He and wife and family are members of the Lutheran Church.

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History of Clinton County Ohio - Page 952

CHRISTIAN F. BROCKMAN, farmer, PO Lynchburg, a highly cultured and esteemed G-ermau, residing in Clark Township, near Lynchburg, was born in Hanover. Germany, November 10, 1814. He is a son of Ernest and Catherine (El- brecht) Broekman, ...

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