Kratz

WILLIAM A. BROKER was born in Lippe-Detmold, Germany, March 19, 1837. He was a boy of eleven years of age when his parents, Samuel and Sophia (Haupfer) Broker, crossed the Atlantic in the spring of 1849 to New Orleans, and thence up the Mississippi River to St. Louis. This was during the year of the great cholera epidemic in that city, and within a few days the father and three of the children died, the mother and William having it severely but recovering. When they were able to leave, the mother and her four small children moved to a farm … Read more