Newton Co., IN Biography


  J.J. BRENNER, of the firm of Brenner & Son, was born at Dayton, Ohio,
September 7, 1835.  His parents were John and Frances (Etnire) Brenner,
natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Virginia.  The former's sire
was Samuel Brenner, a native of Germany, who emigrated to Pennsylvania
in the early days, and, in 1830 to Montgomery County, Ohio, where his
life was closed.  He was a soldier of the 1812 war.  John Brenner was
born in Pennsylvania February 22, 1800.  In Ohio he married Frances
Etnire, a native of Virginia, born November 17, 1817.  In 1838, he 
removed to Warren County, Indiana.  Mrs. Brenner died in 1849.  He 
afterwards married Betsey Brenner, and died in 1882, the father of 
eight children--David, Jacob, Elizabeth, Samuel, Eliza, Susanna, John
J. and Ephraim.
   J.J. Brenner, when quite young, learned the trade of a carpenter,
and followed the same for a number of years.  In 1856, he came to this
county, and February 9, 1861, married Sarah J. Kennedy, born in Greene
County, Tennessee, March 27, 1842, who died March 7, 1883, leaving
seven children--John S., Mary A., Andrew J., Bertie L., Charlie,
Clermont, and Mattie.
   In 1879, in company with J. M. Hufty, he opened a dry goods and
grocery store at Pilot Grove, which, in 1881, he sold to Mr. Hufty,
then engaged in the drug trade, and, in 1883, moved to Mount Airy, 
where he follows the same business; he is also the Postmaster of 
Pilot Grove.  

From A History of Warren, Benton, Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.


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