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Harry Buermeyer
Henry Ernest (Harry) Buermeyer II (August 19, 1839 – October 10, 1922) was a celebrated American athlete in the late 1800s and is considered a "father of American athletics"〔Washington Herald, April 32, 1912〕 due to his major contributions towards the growth of amateur sports throughout North America. James Edward Sullivan described him as “one of the strongest athletes the world ever had”.〔How to become an Athlete (1916) by James E. Sullivan, page 49〕 After being wounded in the legs twice in the Civil War, Harry won numerous national championships in swimming, running, shot put, and boxing, and he was an avid rower and weightlifter throughout his long life.〔New York Herald Newspaper, February 18th, 1890〕
==Early life==
Harry was born in New York City, as the son of German immigrants. His father, Ernst Henrich, was a hotelkeeper at Fraunces Tavern. At age sixteen, Harry won his first rowing race around Ellis Island. At eighteen, he gained fame as the best all-around athlete in New York.〔New York Tribune, February 7, 1915〕 He was educated at the Mechanics Institute School and graduated in 1854.
Harry enlisted in the Union Army in May 1861 and fought in the Civil War. He was the unofficial boxing champion of his regiment. Harry was wounded in the foot at the Battle of Antietam in 1862, and he almost lost a leg when he was shot at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in 1864. After he recovered, Harry left the army to focus on athletics. In 1876, he wed Mary Carroll, an exceptional swimmer and weightlifter and one of the first women to ride a bicycle in the United States.〔Going afoot; a book on walking, by Bayard Henderson Christy (1923)〕
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