GEORGE BRUNNER
George Brunner resides on section 17, Pleasant township, where he owns a farm of one hundred and forty acres, all under a high state of cultivation, and well improved. He has planted a fine grove, and also an orchard. Mr. Brunner is a native of Germany, born in Hesse-Darmstadt, August 4, 1838. He is well educated, having attended the common schools of his native country until fourteen years of age, after which he attended a high school for two years. In 1856, he came to the United States, landing in New York. He located in Chambersburg, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where he found employment, and remained until 1862, when he enlisted in the service of his adopted country, in company B, of the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He participated in the battle of Fredericksburg, where his regiment entered the engagement with eight hundred and sixty men, and came out with two hundred and thirty; also the battles of Antietam, Shepardstown, Chancellorsville, and many other minor engagements. He was honorably discharged at the expiration of his term of service. In the spring of 1864 he went to Illinois, and remained in Whiteside county until fall. He then re-enlisted, in company G of the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, and served till the close of the war, and was discharged with his regiment, at St. Louis, in July, 1865. He returned to Pennsylvania in the spring of 1866, and was married there, one year later, to Susan C. Glenn, a native of Maryland. They then went to Whiteside county, Illinois, and rented land, on which they lived until 1873. In that year they removed to Montgomery county, Iowa, where they spent one year, and then came to Cass county. Mr. and Mrs. Brunner have one child - Omar F.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 819.
