Br. Anselm Emilius

Amelian Kamber was born on December 1, 1842, in Oberbuchstein, Switzerland. He emigrated to the United States and the age of twenty-four entered the Novitiate in New York at Second Street. In December he received the habit and the religious name of Brother Anselm Emilius. He taught at St. Peter's School in New York City until 1867 when he was sent to Philadelphia, and at St. Joseph's Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1868, before returning to Philadelphia. From 1878 to 1882 he taught German at Cretin High School in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was transferred to the Bridgeport orphanage, Chicago, due to poor health and died there at age forty, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixteen years.