Bryant, Reuben T.

BRYANT

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Date: 3/11/2007 at 20:53:38

Reuben T. Bryant

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.8, Council Bluffs)
Reuben, T. Bryant, real estate and mining, Council Bluffs, was born in Scotland County, Mo., in 1837, and is of Scotch-Irish descent, although his ancestors came to this country many generations past and settled in Virginia. He remained in Scotland County, Mo., until the spring of 1851, when he came to Council Bluffs, and after living there a year and a half, moved back to Scotland County, Mo. He received his education in the schools of Scotland County and Council Bluffs. He returned to Council Bluffs in 1863, and attended school, and also taught until 1866, when he went to Chicago and took a business course in Eastman's Business College. Returning to Council Bluffs the following year, he taught school for two years, then engaged in real estate business. In December, 1869, he went to Avoca, Iowa, where he engaged in general merchandising until the fall of 1872, when he was elected Clerk of Court on the Republican ticket, and he accordingly sold out his business in Avoca and entered upon his duties as Clerk in January, 1873, and held that position for four years. During this time he had carried on the real estate business, and on leaving the Clerk's office he gave his attention to that business. In the spring of 1879, he took a trip to Colorado, and while there became connected in the mining business with the Seneca Mining & Tunnel Company, and the R. T. Bryant Mining Company (named after subject), and afterward became interested in some placer mines located in Mandano Creek, on the south side of Sangre de Christo Mountains, Co., in San Luis Valley, and in some copper mines on Pass Creek, the company being known as the Huerfano Mining Company. At Council Bluffs, in 1872, Mr. Bryant married Miss Anna C. drain, of that city, and by this union they hvae been blessed with one child - Fannie anna, aged four years.