CLAUDE BRONNER

BRONNER

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/22/2020 at 13:34:08

CLAUDE BRONNER, blacksmith at Corning, was born in 1843, in Ingwiller, Alsace, France. His father, Francois Bronner, a linen-bleacher, came to America in 1876 and died in 1884. Claude came to America in 1872, following the trade of wagon-maker, and came to Corning in 1879, as a member of the Icarian colony. Afterward he began blacksmithing, and by skill and honest industry he has built up a large trade. He has all the wit and courtesy of his race. He was a soldier in the French army in the war between France and Prussia in 1870-’71, and did valiant service.

In 1872 he married Miss Elise Klienhoffer, a native of France, and they have become the parents of four children, namely: Lizzie, now Mrs. Edwards; Clothilde, who died at the age of ten months; Claude M., who died at the age of two years and four months, and George, who is a remarkably gifted artist and brilliant musician.