Living married BROWN S.C. [Group Sheet]

1. Living
2. Living
3. Living

Notes:

Gene is a lawyer and they lived in Yakima, Washington.

EUGENE married BUHRMAN ELAINE LOUISE on 24 Jun 1924. ELAINE (daughter of BUHRMAN HENRY C. and LANE CARRIE) was born on 1 Jan 1895; died in Sep 1936. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Elaine attended MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois (at that time called Illinois Woman's College) - 2 yrs. She graduated from the U. of Illinois June 1918. She taught school in the state of Washington, where she met and married Gene.

Notes:

Henry learned the merchandising business from his father's store. He bought 1/2 interest in the Schmitt Store - soon purchasing the entire business and was in business in Nashville 34 years. Although he grew up in teh Evangelical Church was was confirmed there, he joined the Presbyterian Church as a young man and was a member of that church for 37 years - 32 of which he served as elder. He also was clerk of the session and S. S. Supt.

HENRY married LANE CARRIE on 28 Dec 1892. CARRIE was born on 6 Jul 1868; died on 29 Jan 1966. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

After graduating from High School in Nashville, Carrie studied music at the Epstien Conservatory in St. Louis and taught in the Nashville Grade School for 4 years. In later life she was associated with her husband in the operation of the Buhrman Dry Goods Store. She lived to be 97 - having undergone major surgery at 91.

Notes:

Herman, son of Johann Ernst Heinrich Buhrman, known as Henry Buhrman Sr., was born in Unterlubbe, Kries Minden, westfalen, Konigreich Preuszen, Germany. The family left Germany in 1852, coming to Nashville via New Orleans and St. Louis. the trip took 9 weeks and 4 days and was made by steamboat, railroad, and horse-drawn wagon. The family brought with it a melodeon which was made in Stuttgart, Germany by the Philip trayser Co. and is still in its original condition. It now graces the Washington County Historical Museum, together with other items from the Buhrman household - a gift of Bert Buhrman Jr., his great grandson, and other members of the family. Early in life Herman entered the mercantile business and in later years was appointed postmaster of Nashville, during Pres. McKinley's administration. His father was one of the founders of St. Paul's Evangelical Church in Nashville, where he also was a member and served as an officer.
From "Hoffmans 1662 - 1962"
Compiled by Bernice Reinhardt

Note: It mayh be that his melodon was used in the first church building which was built by seven men, two of whomwere the senior Buhrman and Hoffman.

HERMAN married HOFFMANN SOPHIE ELISABETH on 1 May 1864. SOPHIE (daughter of HOFFMANN JOHANN ERNST and HOFFMAN SOPHIE MARIA JUSTINA KATHARINA) was born on 26 Aug 1844 in Minden, Washington County, Illinois (lst 2 names may be reversed).; died on 13 Jan 1888. [Group Sheet]