Jean Douglas Brauer

Jean Douglas Brauer

• Father: Julius Henry Brauer b. July 1868, d. 9 November 1946
• Mother: Agnes McIn. Wilson b. 28 December 1869, d. 17 March 1945

• Jean Douglas Brauer was born on 20 August 1900 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota.
• Julius Henry Brauer and Agnes McIn. Wilson appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 641 Grant Street. Other members of the household included Jean Douglas Brauer, Harold Wilson Brauer, Erwin Craig Brauer and Rolin Julius Brauer.
• Julius Henry Brauer and Agnes McIn. Wilson appeared in the New York state census of 1 June 1915 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 781 Tonawanda Street. Other members of the household included Jean Douglas Brauer, Erwin Craig Brauer and Rolin Julius Brauer. Also in the household was one female servant.
• He married Vera Elizabeth Kitchen, daughter of John Wellington Kitchen and Elizabeth Hazlett, on 31 December 1916 in Bridgeburg, Welland County, Ontario, Canada, by license issued at Fort Erie, Welland County, with L. G. Lowry officiating. At the time of their marriage, the groom was living in Bridgeburg, employed railroading, and the bride resided in Fort Erie.
• Jean Douglas Brauer registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York.
• Jean Douglas Brauer and Vera Elizabeth Kitchen appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 19 Wyandotte Street. Other members of the household included Craig Brauer.
• The following appeared on 27 September 1920 in the Buffalo Courier: To the Babylonian proverb, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," a Buffalo man would add:
       "And an ear for $10,000 and an education."
       He is Jean D. Brauer of No. 19 Wyandotte avenue, and in a letter to The Courier, received yesterday, he states he stands willing and anxious to embrace the offer made by Frank S. Quesada, son of a wealthy planter of Manzanillo, Cuba. Quesada lost his left aural organ when fourteen years of age. Recently he has found his deficiency a handicap to courtship. With a view to annexing a good hearing-cup he has journeyed to New York city and on Monday issued his offer of $10,000 for a healthy left ear. Publication of the offer was contained in The Courier of yesterday. Quesada has been informed by a surgeon that an ear easily can be grafted on, at a cost of about $2,000. Quesada's father, who has plenty and to spare, is willing to pay $10,000 for a first-class air-tight, water-proof, government-certified, non-sinkable, aural member, even if it does not boast quite the tropical tan which Quesada's right ear now possesses.
       Mr. Brauer in his letter which he requests The Courier to forward to Mr. Quesada, and which has been so dispatched, says:
       "Kindly consider me an applicant willing to surrender my left ear, which will make it possible for me to acquire education I lost before marriage. The education I am seeking will be of that substance which will aid me in upholding mankind."
       Very truly, Jean D. Brauer.
            Constant reader of The Courier"
       So far, Mr. Brauer is the first Buffalonian to embrace the Cuban's offer. He is willing to help the son of the south seas into matrimony. If the former will help him acquire some book learning.
• The following appeared on 26 October 1922 in the Batavia Daily News: The Rev. Jean D. Brauer of Buffalo, known as the boy evangelist, will give two addresses in Maccabee hall, one tomorrow evening on "Heaven or Hell" and one Sunday evening on "Not Guilty." The services will begin at 7:45 o'clock and will include a musical program in charge of Ray Bolander.
• Mary Ann Hazlett Tice Reid raised her sister Elizabeth's grandson Craig Brauer.
• He and Vera Elizabeth Kitchen were divorced on 7 January 1925.
• Julius Henry Brauer and Agnes McIn. Wilson appeared in the New York state census of 1 June 1925 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 40 Elmview. Other members of the household included Jean Douglas Brauer.
• He was employed by a grocery business.
• The following appeared on 6 December 1926 in the Buffalo Evening News: (Satisfaction of Judgments) Jean Brauer in favor of Vera Brauer, $47.25, Jan. 8, 1925.
• He married Victoria Frances Geisler, daughter of Albert Geisler and Maria Ann Martin, on 27 June 1929 in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
• Jean Douglas Brauer and Victoria Frances Geisler appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 418 Breckenridge Street. Jean Douglas and Victoria Brauer also are enumerated with his parents elsewhere in Buffalo, but "daughter Drusilla Florence" is missing from that household.
• Julius Henry Brauer and Agnes McIn. Wilson appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 1314 Kenmore Avenue. Other members of the household included Jean Douglas Brauer, Harold Wilson Brauer and Victoria Frances Geisler. Son Jean Douglas Brauer and his wife Victoria also are enumerated with "daughter Drusilla Florence" (age 3) elsewhere in Buffalo.
• He was employed as a supervisor by the Buffalo Courier-Express, according to the 1930 census.
• Jean Douglas Brauer appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at Buffalo State Hospital enumerated as an inmate. He was living in the same place in 1935.
• The following appeared on 18 March 1945 in the Buffalo Courier-Express: [Died] Agnes M. Brauer, March 17, 1945, wife of Julius; mother of H. Wilson, E. Craig, Rolin J. and Jean D. Funeral from family residence, 56 Traymore Ave, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Friends invited. Deceased was a member of Occidental Chapter No. 571, OES; Highland Court No 132, O of A; and Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem.
• The SSDI lists Helmuth County, New York, as the last residence of record of Jean Douglas Brauer.
• Jean Douglas Brauer died on 15 August 1978 at age 77 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at Erie County Medical Center.
• He was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Erie County, New York.

• Last Edited: 29 Aug 2015

• Charts: Descendants of WILSON Peter & Margaret Simpson