Breneman, Nery E. (1845-1928)

BRENEMAN

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Date: 9/16/2019 at 01:57:26

Nery E. Breneman
Dec 13, 1845 - Aug 19, 1928

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.610)
NERY E. BRENEMAN, of section 30, Macedonia Township, was born in Hancock Co., Ohio, Dec 13, 1845, the son of Richard and Sarah (CLARK) BRENEMAN, both born in Mercer Co., Pennsylvania and reared in Columbiana Co., Ohio, and of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. The parents were married in that county and afterward removed to Hancock County, same state, and in the fall of 1854 to Iowa County, Iowa, settling ten miles south of Marengo. They were early settlers in that portion of the state. They came to Pottawattamie Co., Washington Township, Iowa, in 1881, where the father died in the spring of 1883 and the mother still resides in Washington Township.

NERY E. BRENEMAN, our subject, came to Iowa in 1879 and bought his land in the spring of 1875, which was wild and uncultivated. He has, since residing upon it, improved it in a good manner and his pasture and meadow is well adapted to general farming and stock raising. He was married March 1, 1882, to Miss Celia KANKE, who was born in Adams Co., Illinois, daughter of Christian and Anna (WEEKS) KANKE, the former a native of Germany and the latter of England. Mrs. BRENEMAN was five years old when her parents came to Pottawattamie County. Mr. and Mrs. BRENEMAN have two children: Howard, born July 31, 1885, and Alma Frances, born August 11, 1881. Politically Mr. Breneman is a Democrat, but has never aspired for political distinction. He is a member of the I.O.O.F., Macedonia Lodge No. 421.