Brokaw, Isaac Vail
merchant, was born Nov. 27, 1835, in New Brunswick, N. J. He formed a partnership and began a clothing business under the firm name of Dunham and Brokaw. This business was most successfully carried on from 1856 to 1861, when Mr. Dunham retired, and Mr. Brokaw continued the business under his own name. In 1866 he admitted to partnership his brother, William Vail Brokaw, thereafter adopting the name of Brokaw Brothers, of New York city.
BROMBERG, FREDERICK GEORGE, educator, congressman, was born June 19, 1837, in New York city. He was appointed treasurer of the city of Mobile in 1867, and served until 1869. He was a member of the state senate of Alabama from 1868 to 1872; and was appointed postmaster of Mobile in 1869, and removed in 1871. He was elected to the forty-third and fortyfcurth congresses.