BRUNING

Breda Centennial Book, 1877-1977, Older Days Renewed, page 145.

Clemens Bruning was one of the leading business men of Breda, Carroll County, with whose interests he had been identified since the spring of 1879, the town of Breda being at that date but a small hamlet. On settling here in 1879 he engaged in the mercantile business, which continued under the firm name of Bruning & Son, and from the first had been one of the prominent citizens. In the fall of 1879 he bought the lumber interests of Mr. Simpson, and continued dealing in lumber. To this business he added the sale of agricultural implements.

Mr. Clemens Bruning was born in Germany in 1830, and at the age of eighteen, in 1848, he emigrated with his father’s family to America, locating in Grant County, Wisconsin. Clemens Bruning subsequently left Grant County for Illinois, and for some time was engaged in mining in the vicinity of Galena, until coming to Carroll County, Iowa.

Clemens Bruning married Mary Ann Arts and their children included: Caroline (Mrs John Bohnenkamp), Mary A. (Mrs Gnam) William B., August, Frank, Anton, George, Anna and Lena. Clemens Bruning died September 28, 1899.

Submitted June 2001 by Anita Henning - Lemon Grove, CA