| Excerpts from 'History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan' |
| JOHN BRANDT, section boss, M., H. & O. R. R., is a native of Sweden, and was born September 21, 1824. Emigrated to America in 1869; lived in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and came to Lake Superior in 1873; he began working for the M., H. & O. R. R. in 1877; for the past three years has been section boss, and came to Michigamme to live in 1881. He married Johanna Jacobson October 25, 1851. They had eight children; only three survived - Helena, Dorothea and George. |