"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
MONROE TOWNSHIP
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REV. JOHN BRUNER, A. M., is a son of Elias and Jiney (Tarrant) Bruner,
natives respectively of Virginia and North Carolina, and of German and
English descent. He was born in Monroe County October 31, 1828, whither his
parents removed in 1820, and settled on a tract of Government land, where
they remained until 1835, when the mother died; the father died in 1871 in
Arkansas. Rev. Mr. Bruner was reared to farming, and, after some study and
preparation, became a teacher, as which he served about two years. In 1853,
he entered Asbury University, and graduated therefrom after six years, with
the degrees of A. B. and A. M., an attainment which he secured unaided. He
desired at first to become a lawyer, which, however, he gave up for the
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, receiving for his fist years's
service the sum of $142, and was ordained Deacon in 1862. His first charge
was Bloomington, in which he was very successful. He has now a record of
admissions amounting to 1,000 persons. April 5, 1860, he married Rebecca S.
Mason, which union gave being to nine children--Mary (deceased), Belle,
Mason, Frank, Maggie, Anna L., Burke, Hugh and Maud. Rev. Mr. Bruner is a
member of the Masonic fraternity. He was assigned to the charge of Monrovia
City in 1883.
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