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At the beginning of the Civil War
Brockmeyer, a strong Union man, enlisted in the militia and helped organize a regiment, but, in the confusion of the time, was accused of disloyalty, arrested and imprisoned briefly. A short time later he was elected to the state house of representatives from Warren
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Brockmeyer married
Elizabeth Robertson in 1861; she died in 1864 leaving him with three small children. He remarried in 1867, to Julia Kienlen (1845-1924), the daughter of German immigrant Christian Frederich Kienlen and Marie Louise Moreau, a St. Louis native of French-colonial descent. He had two
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In 1866 Brockmeyer was elected alderman in St. Louis, and in 1870 was elected to the state senate. In 1874 he was elected as a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1875. The following year he was elected lieutenant governor under the new constitution, and briefly served as acting governor
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when he spoke in St. Louis. Denton
Jacques Snider called Brockmeyer "a genuine original elemental poet" and said that "Without this poetic power he could not have barbed his weighty philosophy with flashes of lightning which would pierce and illumine for a moment at least the dullest and darkest
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of St. Louis and a believer in the "Great St. Louis
Illusion"; he reportedly suffered greatly from the growing ascendancy of Chicago in the 1870s and 1880s. After retiring from public life in 1890, Brockmeyer may have spent time living in the Oklahoma Territory. He continued to work on his
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brainpan." Harris acknowledged
Brockmeyer's teaching and translations in his 1890 work "Hegel's Logic: A Critical Exposition". Another historian of this group called Brockmeyer "the inspirer, the Socrates of this movement, as Dr. Harris was the propagator, its Plato."
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Speech of Hon. H.C. Brockmeyer, delivered in the Senate of
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wrote that his "strange personality dominated everyone", despite the fact that he "had no converse with social amenities." Brockmeyer openly heckled
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A Mechanic's Diary (semi-autobiographical novel) - 1910.
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