Henry Breemis was born in Belgium in 1872 and emigrated in 1890. He was active in the Stonecutters Union and served as President of the St. Paul Local in 1900. The May 1905 Stone Cutters Journal reported that Breemis was in Evanston, Wyoming organizing a stone cutters local there. By 1910 Breemis was living in San Francisco and was married and raising a family there. The Stone Cutter Journal of November 1916 reported that he had recently died in San Francisco.
In the 1899 CD he was living at 165 Como.