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Montgomery County TN Archives Biographies.....Brandau, John W. 1857 -
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Author: Will T. Hale

JOHN W. BRANDAU, M. D. The exacting profession of medicine and surgery makes
great requisitions upon those who would attain to success and prestige in its
ranks, and Dr. Brandau has fully measured up to these requirements, as is
manifest in the high standing which he maintains in his chosen vocation. He has
been engaged in the active practice of his profession at Clarksville, the
beautiful little capital city of Montgomery county, for more than a score of
years and here has a substantial and representative business, concrete voucher
for his ability and personal popularity. He is one of the leading members of his
profession in this part of the state and had had ample experience in active
practice prior to establishing his home in Clarksville.

Dr. John William Brandau was born in Vinton county, Ohio, on the 11th of
November, 1857, and is a son of William and Anna (Miller) Brandau, both natives
of Rothenburg, Hessen Darmstadt, Germany, where the former was born on the 3d of
July, 1833, and the latter on the 15th of January, 1846, their marriage having
been solemnized in the United States, to which country Mrs. Brandau came with
her parents when she was a girl of eleven years.

In the excellent schools of his native land William Brandau gained his early
education and there also he gained practical experience in connection with
industrial activities. He was nineteen years of age at the time of the family
immigration to America and his parents established their home in southern Ohio,
as did also the Miller family. In that section of the old Buckeye State his
marriage to Anna Miller was solemnized, their acquaintanceship having been
formed in their childhood days in Germany. They became the parents of seven
children, all sons, and of the number five are living. Of these Albert Adam
Brandau is engaged in the retail grocery business at Clarksville, a line of
enterprise in which he virtually succeeded his honored father. William Brandau
was long and prominently identified with the pig-iron industry, his association
with this line of enterprise having been in the state of Ohio until 1867, when
he assumed charge of a pig-iron manufactory at Brownsport Furnace, in Decatur
county, Tennessee. Later he was an interested principal in the LaGrange Iron
Works, in Stewart county, this state, where he remained until the business was
closed out, after which, in 1892, he removed with his family to Clarksville,
Montgomery county, where he was engaged in the retail grocery business until his
death, which occurred on the 22d of October,. 1895. He was a man of sterling
character and much business ability, and he ever held the popular esteem which
he richly merited. He was a stalwart adherent of the Democratic party, was a
consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, as is also his
widow, who still resides in Clarksville, and he was prominently identified with
the Masonic fraternity, in which he served as master of his lodge in Stewart
county and later as master of Clarksville Lodge, No, 89, Free and Accepted Masons.

Dr. John W. Brandau gained his preliminary education in the public schools of
Deeaturville, this state, and those of Portsmouth, Ohio, and in preparation for
the work of his chosen profession he was matriculated in the medical department
of Nashville University, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of
1881 and from, which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. To fortify
himself further for his exacting profession he thereafter took a post-graduate
course in the celebrated old Jefferson Medical College, in the city of
Philadelphia, in 1885, and in 1900 and 1904 he pursued post-graduate studies and
research in the New York Polyclinic, in the national metropolis. He has spared
neither time nor effort in keeping abreast of the advances made in medicine and
surgery, and avails himself of the best standard and periodical literature of
his profession.

For the first decade of his professional service Dr. Brandau was engaged in
active general practice in Stewart county, Tennessee, where he was physician and
surgeon for the LaGrange Iron Works, in addition to controlling a very
appreciable private practice. In January, 1891, he removed to Clarksville, where
he has since been engaged in successful general practice and where his clientage
is of distinctively representative character. He is an appreciative and valued
member of the Montgomery County Medical Society, the Tennessee State Medical
Society and the Tri-State Medical Association, besides which he holds membership
in the American Medical Association. Reared in the faith of the Democratic
party, the Doctor has never wavered in his allegiance thereto, and he is a
broad-minded and progressive citizen, taking specially deep interest in those
agencies which tend to advance the general welfare of his home community. He is
affiliated with Clarksville Lodge, No. 89, Free and Accepted Masons, and he and
his wife, as well as their children, are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South.

On the 26th of January, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Brandau to
Miss Martha E. McMillan, daughter of the late Dr. William H. H. McMillan, who
was at that time engaged in the practice of his profession at Decaturville, and
who was one of the able and honored physicians and surgeons of that section of
Tennessee. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Dr.
and Mrs. Brandau: William H. is a member of the class of 1915 in the medical
department of Vanderbilt University, at Nashville; Iris is at the parental home
and was graduated in Ward Seminary, at Nashville, as a member of the class of
1910; George McMillan is a member of the class of 1915 in the Southwestern
Presbyterian University, at Clarksville, Tennessee; Alberta is a student in Ward
Seminary, in Nashville; and John Alston is attending the public schools of
Clarksville. The family is most popular in the social activities of Clarksville
and the home of Dr. Brandau is a veritable center of good cheer and generous
hospitality.


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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in
commerce, industry and modern activities
by Will T. Hale
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1913



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