- Edward Breitung
Edward Breitung (
November 10 ,1831 –March 3 ,1887 ) was apolitician from theU.S. state ofMichigan .Breitung, the son of John M. Breitung, a
Lutheran minister, was born in the city ofSchalkau in the Duchy ofSaxe-Meiningen ,Germany (now in the Sonneberg ofThuringia ). He attended the College of Mining inMeiningen , then one of the celebrated schools in Germany for scientific and classical studies. In 1849, after the revolution in Germany, he immigrated to theUnited States and settled inKalamazoo County, Michigan . He moved to Detroit in 1851 and became a clerk in a mercantile house. He moved to Marquette and engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1859, when he went to Negaunee. He sold out his mercantile business to engage exclusively in iron-mining operations in 1864, explored for iron deposits in Marquette and Menominee Counties, locating several profitable mines from 1864 to 1867. He later became interested in gold and silver mining inColorado .Breitung was a member of the
Michigan State House of Representatives in 1873 and 1874 and a member of theMichigan State Senate in 1877 and 1878. He served as mayor of Negaunee in 1879, 1880, and 1882. He was elected as a Republican to theUnited States House of Representatives fromMichigan's 11th congressional district for the Forty-eighth Congress, serving fromMarch 4 ,1883 toMarch 3 ,1885 . He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1884.Breitung died in Negaunee and is interred in Park Cemetery in Marquette. Breitung's son, Edward N. Breitung, continued his father's successful mining enterprises in the
Upper Peninsula of Michigan .Breitung Township, Minnesota is named after him for his work in developing the Soudan Mine there in the 1880s.Breitung Township, Michigan is also named for him.External links
* [http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=micounty;cc=micounty;sid=a6bb2527667a55e577c6b85c53b21cef;q1=Breitung;rgn=full%20text;idno=BAD6019.0002.001;view=image;seq=00000585 "American biographical history of eminent and self-made men ... Michigan volume." Cincinnati, Western biographical publishing co., 1878.]
* [http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=micounty;cc=micounty;sid=a6bb2527667a55e577c6b85c53b21cef;q1=Breitung;rgn=full%20text;idno=ARH7481.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000359 Biographical record; this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Houghton, Baraga and Marquette Counties, Michigan ... Chicago, Biographical Publishing Co.,1903.]
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