BRUNSKILL, Frank W.

BRUNSKILL, Frank W. (Dubuque, IA, Jan. 2, 1881-- ). A son of Simon and Clara Brunskill, Frank attended the public schools of Dubuque to the fourth grade and later in life attended night school at the Minneapolis Young Men's Christian Association. At an early age he worked in a butcher shop for two years and then for the Municipal Lighting Company of Dubuque for one year. He was an office boy in the office for a well known physician and surgeon of Dubuque for a year and then resigned to accept a position as a sawyer in a sawmill. Four years later he entered the coal business, in which he was active for a year. He then worked in a brewery for six years.

In 1906 Brunskill moved to Minneapolis and for one year worked for the C. A. Smith Lumber Company, and later was for four years was an employee of the Minneapolis Brewing Company.

On March 25, 1911, he was appointed a detective on the Minneapolis force, and for two years he had charge of the purity squad and then was attached to the motorcycle squad for one and one-half years. His devotion to duty and his efficiency led to him being appointed head master of the detective bureau.

In 1919 he resigned and entered the county attorney's office, where he remained for over a year. Not long after he resigned from the force. Brunskill returned to his detective work and was appointed chief of the bureau on August 8, 1921.

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Source:

Shutter, Daniel, History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest. Chicago-Minneapolis: The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923, p. 191-192