BRANT, David

BRANT, HURD, RICHARDSON, HAWLEY, NEWTON

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DAVID BRANT

David Brant, editor of the Clinton Daily Herald, was born in Shelby county, Indiana, July 6, 1850, and is a son of Winans Brant, who died in 1851. When five years old Mr. Brant removed to Iowa, living first in Monroe county, and from 1857 to 1868 in Ringgold county. In 1869 he went to Johnson county and later entered the State University at Iowa City, where he was a student for five years. After leaving that institution he was connected with different newspapers in Iowa City until February, 1881, when he removed to Linn county to become city editor of the Cedar Rapids Republican. In 1883 he founded the Walker News, which he sold in 1890, when he became connected with the Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette. He became editor of the Clinton Herald in December, 1897. The only office he has ever held was that of representative to the state legislature while a resident of Linn county.

On the 30th of October, 1878, Mr. Brant was united in marriage with Miss Ruth Hurd, at Waterloo, Iowa. She was born near Lockport, Niagara county, New York, August 22, 1859, and is a daughter of I. N. and Annis (Richardson) Hurd. On her father’s side she is descended from the Hurds, Hawleys and Newtons who settled in New England before the Revolutionary war. Mr. And Mrs. Brant have four children: Lucy Winnifred, born in Iowa City, April 15, 1880, Irving Newton, born in Walker, Iowa, January 17, 1885; Archer Winans, born in Walker, May 20, 1886; and Dorothy Annis, born in Clinton, April 26, 1898.
Source: The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.