Mr. Bragonier was born November 11, 1821. He received a common school education, which was in a log cabin covered with clapboards and slab seats with a puncheon floor. The elder boys in those days had to gather up wood and carry it to the school-house for fuel, and in this humble way he received all the education he ever had, outside of a practical business knowledge. Being raised on a farm he could only attend school in the winter months.
Mr. and Mrs. Bragonier started out poor in life, but they were young and willing to work. Their first meal was taken on a drygoods box and consisted of a cup of tea, pork and slap-jacks, but they worked hard and saved their earnings and they accumulated wealth rapidly. As they could afford it they would by land and now own several hundred acres of valuable land, and he is one of the leading citizens and representative farmers of Princeton Township.
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