An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company,
Spokane, WA. 1905, pages 394-395.

FRAMTON C. BROSIUS. M.D., is too well known in Hood River and vicinity to need
any introduction by us. He is a man of ability and has gained an extensive
practice of medicine, wherein he has shown remarkable ability and achieved
excellent success. His education was thorough and in one of the best
institutions of the land and since his graduation he has kept well abreast of
the advancing science of medicine by careful reading. He is a close student and
a great devotee of his profession.      

Framton C. Brosius was born in Beloit, Ohio, on August 26, 1859. His father,
Amos P. Brosius, was a native of Alsace-Lorraine, and came to the United States
in 1840. In 1863, he enlisted in the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry and served
until captured at Cedar Creek, West Virginia, on the morning of Sheridan's
famous raid. He was taken to Salisbury, North Carolina, and incarcerated in a
war prison. The North Carolina records show that he mysteriously disappeared and
no trace of him could be found. In 1884, our subject desired to sift the matter
more carefully and through the efforts of the adjutant general at Washington, it
was ascertained that he died at Andersonville prison. Thus it is supposed he
made his escape and was retaken and died later. He had married Miss Mary A.E.
Core, a native of Churchville, Pennsylvania. She died here in Wasco county, on
November 19, 1893, Her father was a pioneer physician in Pennsylvania, and his
father was a Church of England clergyman. Dr. Brosius has one half brother,
Arkley Lindsay, and one sister, Mathalie Gordon. On November 19, 1889, at
Kenesaw, Nebraska, Dr. Brosius married Miss Emma Williams, a native of Iowa. She
has one brother, George E.      

After his father's death, our subject moved with his mother to Tipton, Iowa,
where he attended the high school. Then he took a course at the Millville
academy, Pennsylvania. When seventeen he taught school and when nineteen he
entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, whence on February 19, 1883, he was
graduated with honors. He immediately began the practice of his profession in
Omaha, Nebraska, then went to Kenesaw, the same state, and continued in practice
until 1891. On November 16, of that year, he came to Hood River and since that
time has continued uninterruptedly in his profession, with the exception of the
time spent in the service of his country in the Spanish war. He enlisted in the
Second Oregon United States Volunteer Infantry as chief hospital steward with
the rank of captain and artillery surgeon. He served the full time and was
mustered out at San Francisco, on August 7, 1899, having been fifteen and
one-half months in active service in the Philippines. The doctor is now captain
and artillery surgeon of the Oregon National Guards. He is a member of the A.F.
& A.M., being past master; of the R.A.M., being past high priest; of the O.E.S.,
being past patron; of the I.O.O.F.; of the United Artisans, having been eight
successive terms master; of the Order of Pendo, being past master; of the W.W.,
being past council commander; of the Women of Woodcraft; of the K.O.T.M., being
past sir knight commander; of the A.O.U.W.; of the Fraternal Brotherhood; and of
the Foresters of America, being president and financial secretary and past chief
ranger. To Dr. Brosius and his estimable wife three children have been born, Ed
Este, Florence A., and Frampton Williams. The first one was born in Nebraska,
and the last two in Hood River.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2005 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. 
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.