Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Bramell, Charles J. April 16, 1868 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

CHARLES J. BRAMELL, 
one of the active young business men of the Mountain City, is the only child
of Andrew and Mary (Schenk) Bramell, and was born in the city of Altoona,
Blair county, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1868.  The Bramell and Schenk families
are of German lineage, and have been resident of Germany for several
centuries.  Andrew Bramell, the father of the subject of this sketch, was
born in 1846, in one of the provinces of the present German empire, where he
was reared and received his education.  At twenty years of age he left the
Fatherland to settle in Altoona, where he engaged in the tailoring business
until his death in 1869, at the early age of twenty-three years.  He was a
consistent member of the Catholic church, and married Mary Schenk, who two
years after his death wedded A. Greissen, of Altoona and has four children by
her second marriage.  Mary Schenk's father was a native of Germany, who
settled in Altoona, where he died in 1871.  His widow (grandmother), who died
in 1884, aged seventy years, was a women of energy and enterprise.  She built
the Schenk business block at the corner of Fourteenth street and Eleventh
avenue, erected the Brant House at the corner of Twelfth street and Tenth
avenue, and contributed liberally toward the erection of the present church
edifice of St. Mary's Catholic congregation, of which she was a consistent
and highly esteemed member.
   Charles J. Bramell was reared in Altoona, where he has always
resided.  He received his education at the well known St. Vincent's college,
of near Latrobe, in Westmoreland county, which was founded by the saintly Rt.
Rev. Boniface Wimmer, who revived in America the grand institutions of the
Benedictine abbeys of the middle ages.  Leaving college, he was engaged for
several years as a mercantile clerk in the employ of Andrew Gamble, Harry
Bell & Son, and J. W. Leslie, of Altoona.  In 1889, he and his stepfather, A.
Greissen, formed a partnership and opened a grocery store, which they
conducted until 1890. When Mr. Bramell purchased his stepfather's interest. 
Since then he has conducted a most successful business, and has enjoyed a
large and continually increasing trade.  In his grocery establishment is a
well selected stock of everything to be found in a first-class store.
   In 1891 Charles J. Bramell was united in marriage with Henrietta
O'Brien, daughter of James O'Brien of Altoona.
   In politics, Mr. Bramell is a strong and zealous democrat, and a member
of St. Mary's Catholic church.  Mr. Bramell is an energetic, clear-headed
young business man, honorable and fair in all of his transactions, and
well-deserving of the success which he is achieving.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Sharon McCartney Russell

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