The following biography is provided by Edward P. Bentley:

Vern Breitmayer of Jackson, Michigan (1889 - 1966)

Born April 24, 1889, Vern Breitmayer was one of five sons of William and Mary (Siegrist) Breitmayer. Always drawing, he found his initial attempts directed toward illustrations for the "Reflector," his Jackson High School yearbook. In the summer of 1907 he went to Detroit to study with John Wicker at the Detroit Art Academy. Wicker, trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, had been appointed an instructor there in 1903 after having spent seven years abroad.

In the fall of 1907 Breitmayer enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. There his teachers included Charles Grafly, a noted sculptor; Willia...