BRENIMAN, FREDERICK

BRENIMAN, GAUMER

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/14/2013 at 09:55:01

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 799

BRENIMAN, FREDERICK--Farmer and stock-raiser, section 36, P.O. Victor. Was born August 29, 1837, in Berne county, Switzerland, where he attended school till 1851, then in 1852 came with his parents to America and settled in Ohio, where he lived till 1854, then came to Iowa and engaged in farming with his father till 1860; then bought eighty acres of his present farm and commenced to improve the same. In August, 1862, he enlisted at Brooklyn, in the Twenty-eighth Iowa, and participated in all of the battles that regiment took part in. At the battle of Winchester he was knocked senseless by a piece of a shell, his gun being broken by the same, and at Champion's Hill his gun-lock was shot off while he was in the act of firing. After being discharged he returned and commenced to improve his farm, where he now lives, and owns 120 acres of well-improved land, with a good residence and barn on the same. Mr. B. was married April 1, 1866, in this county, to Miss Matilda Gaumer, who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1846. They have seven children: Emma (aged fourteen years), Oliver (aged twelve years), Charles (aged ten years), Ella (aged eight years), Rosa (aged five years), Lillie (aged three years) and Walter (aged one year).