The township is named after Edward Breitung, who was a miner from Michigan and a former U.S. Representative from that state; in the 1880s he helped to develop the Soudan Mine in the township.
He attended the College of Mining in Meiningen, then one of the celebrated schools in Germany for scientific and classical studies.
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