Obituary

Rock Island Argus

November 26, 1905

 

Charles H.C. Brandenburg who has been a resident of Milan for the past 35 years and who has been one of

the prominent and well known citizens of that village, died at 9'oclock on Thursday morning in his home

in Milan after an illness with lung trouble.Mr. Brandenburg was born in Muscatine Iowa in 1854, and from

1898 to 1900he was President of the Village Board of Milan.He was marriedin 1880 to Miss Edith

Gotobed of Milan, who survives with twosons Charles A. and William Brandenburg of Milan also three

step-brothers and two step-sisters.J.W. and J.R. Gitt of Sears William Gitt of Cedar Rapids; Mrs. Jennie

Devoe of Sears; andMrs. C.R. Ellis of Bowling. Mr. Brandenburg was a member ofThe Knights of Pythias

and the court of Honor Societies.

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