BURMAN ERNST PAUL (BUHRMAN)

Male 1878 - 1967  (89 years)


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  • Name BURMAN ERNST PAUL (BUHRMAN) 
    Born 2 Jan 1878 
    Gender Male 
    Died 15 Aug 1967  Year of death may be 1963 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I13505  Gynzer's Genealogy Database
    Last Modified 4 Jul 2005 

    Father BUHRMAN AUGUST A.,   b. 26 Nov 1852, Dob may be Nov. 26, 1953; b.in St. Louis, Mo. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Feb 1886, Year of death may be 1885; Aviston, Clinton County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 33 years) 
    Mother HOFFMAN MARTHA LOUISE,   b. 3 Jun 1855, Farm sw of Nashville, IL Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Aug 1885  (Age 30 years) 
    Family ID F04028  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family SMITH MARY AUGUSTA,   b. 30 Jun 1879,   d. 23 Mar 1963  (Age 83 years) 
    Married 14 Feb 1901  Popular Bluff, Mo. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Living
    Family ID F04694  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Ernst was born in Aviston, Illinois, but after the death of his parents, he and his brother were brought up in the Herman Buhrman home in Nashville, Illinois. Here he attended the German School of the Ev. Church (called the old cow-bell).
      As a young man he took his jeweler and watchmaking apprenticeship under Peter Ziegel, Nashville. He married Mary Augusta Smith, daughter of Catherine and Morand Smith, owner of the Nashville Lumberyard. Because of a small pox epidemic, Ernst could not come to Nashville to be married, so Mary and her brother Myron went to Poplar Bluff for teh wedding. Ernst had started in the jewelry business in Piedmont, Mo., but soon after their marriage they moved to Springfield, Mo., wehre Ernst, with Mary's help, owned and operated a jewelry store for more than 50 years.
      Here he was a charter member of Rotary, a Shriner and 32nd Degree Mason, served on the Springfield Public School Board over 15 years - also serving as it's president. He was elder for many years of the First and Calvary Presbyterian Church.
      He dropped the "h" in Buhrman about 1918 or 20, when problems arose in business as to spelling and pronunciation. They are buried in East Lawn Cemetery and the marker reads Burman.
      From "Hoffmans 1662 - 1972"
      compiled by Bernice Reinhardt


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