Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Brunson, Gay M 1860 - 
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Author: Portraits & Bio Sketches, 1890

GAY M. BRUNSON. Joliet is the home of many young men of fine natural 
abilities, thorough education and business energy, who in various fields of 
industry are acquiring fine reputations and building up successful business 
enterprises. Among these Dr. Brunson deserves mention, as he combines the 
intelligence, energy and moral character which merit respect and win success. 
He is engaged in the practice of dentistry and has no reason to complain of 
his worldly success, as he has built up a fine practice in the short time 
since he opened his office. The subject of this sketch is the youngest son and 
child of Cyrus M. and Plethynnai L. (Gay) Brunson, the other members of the 
family circle being Eugene E. Brunson, M. D., who is practicing his profession 
at Ganges, Allegan County, Mich., and Dora E., wife of Dell D. Smith, of 
Joliet. The father was a native of Yates County, N. Y., and was brought to the 
Prairie State in 1833, when a boy of thirteen years, Grandfather Brunson 
locating about eight miles north of Joliet, on the Chicago road, when the 
country was yet a wilderness. The natal day of our subject was February 23, 
1860, and he was born in this county, receiving his early education in the 
district schools which he attended until about fourteen years of age. He spent 
the next two winters in attending the Lockport High School, assisting his 
father in the intervals of study, and next spending the greater part of two 
years at the Northwestern College in Naperville, Du Page County. Still 
unsatisfied with his attainments he entered the institution at Lombard, and 
three years later he was graduated in the class of '84, having taken the Latin 
Scientific Course. We next find young Brunson studying medicine in Bennett 
Medical College, Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1886, and where he 
won a life scholarship by having the highest standing in the qualifications 
required for that gift. Subsequently he was offered a professorship in this 
institution but his heart was set on dentistry, and after a short time spent 
in the practice of the medical profession he began to fit himself for that 
which he chose to follow. Going to Philadelphia, he entered the Dental 
College, and after his graduation located at once in Joliet, where he has 
already become well established as a thorough workman and holds a high place 
as a gentleman of broad culture and most worthy character. Dr. Brunson belongs 
to various societies, chiefly college fraternities, among them being the Delta 
Tau Delta and the Erosophian Literary Society, in both of which at various 
times he occupied each of the Chairs. In church work he is an active 
participant and during the three years in which he has been Superintendent of 
the Universalist Sundayschool, he has awakened the interest and built up the 
school to one of goodly numbers. On November 6, 1889, Dr. Brunson was united 
in marriage with Miss Rose Pilcher Stopp, of Plainfield, who presides with 
charming grace over his cozy home at 1204 Western Avenue.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 
 


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