Through the efforts of Bremen's Grand Army of the Republic post (Civil War vets), led by Ben Shaffer, Bremen got its cannon for the cemetery in 1902. Click on any image to view a larger version. Enquirer - 16 May... Continue Reading →
Excerpted from: INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3 By Charles Roll, A.M. The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931 Indiana agriculture associates the name Schlosser Brothers with the largest organization in the state manufacturing and handling... Continue Reading →
Janet Stuntz has graciously allowed us to add her family collection of photos to our online resources at Flickr. Her family is from Etna Green in Kosciusko county and includes Klinefelter & Marvin and Houser & Barnbrook lines. Many of... Continue Reading →
William Bornemann came to Bremen to start a shoe-making business in 1893. He had been born in Westphalia, Prussia, in 1870 and emigrated in 1888. He married Elsbeth Saenger, another German immigrant he met by arrangement in South Bend. They... Continue Reading →
Bremen co-founder Josiah Geiselman, blacksmith, had 10 children, 7 of whom survived to adulthood, with wife Mary (born Ringle). The Geiselman name nevertheless died out in this area after just two generations. But one of Josiah and Mary's children showed... Continue Reading →
Back in the old country, the town of Bremen has long been associated with a certain group of musicians (a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster, to be exact). But our own town has long had a similar... Continue Reading →
This ran in the Bremen Enquirer on Christmas Day, 1886.... A plug hat was any stiff hat with a short, round crown, including the popular derby or bowler hat. This one is from the civil war.
In December of 1938, the Hon. John W Kitch (1866-1946), judge of the Marshall circuit court, gave a talk to the members of the Kiwanis club. As James K Gorrell, who reprinted the talk in the Bremen Enquirer at the... Continue Reading →
Recently, Paul Hollar came to the Bremen History Center with his wife Beth and mentioned having, as many people do, a box of old family photos. We arranged for Paul and Beth to bring them in so we could have... Continue Reading →
This item on an intemperate temperance candidate drowning the poor voters of Bremen ran in the Marshall County Republican prior to the 1878 elections. Adam Vinnedge, who lived west of Bremen and had a store in LaPaz, seems to have... Continue Reading →
The Bremen Enquirer ran the above humorous item August 11, 1904. This was apparently the same Laloo the Enquirer noted the very next week. Mr Snyder was an unusual sort and came to an unfortunate end not long after by... Continue Reading →
Bremen has always been a musical town, with top-notch bands, orchestras, performing troupes. At times, it bubbled over into singing in the streets. Not always appreciated. "Ella Ree" is an 1853 ditty by James W Porter & Charles E Stewart/Steuart.... Continue Reading →
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