BRUNER, E. O., St. Landry then Acadia Parish, Louisiana
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E. O. BRUNER, RAYNE.--E. O. Bruner was born in what was then St. Landry
parish, now Acadia, in the year 1858.  He is the son of Francis J. Bruner, who
was a native of Ohio.  He came to Louisiana in 1849, where he has since been
engaged in planting, in Plaquemine Brulee, a distance of ten miles from Rayne,
with the exception of the three years he spent in California during the gold
excitement.

E. O. Bruner, the subject of this sketch, was educated principally in Pontiac,
Illinois, under the instruction of his uncle, John W. Bruner, where he lived
with his father three years during his stay in Illinois.  Previous to going to
Illinois, in 1875, he spent one year in Texas, where he was engaged in a
shingle manufactory.  In 1879 he returned from Illinois, and married Lela
Hampton,  daughter of T. H. Hampton, and a relative of General Wade Hampton. 
In the winter of 1879 he embarked in the mercantile business, in Coulie
Crouche.  Becoming dissatisfied with the business and the locality, he removed
to Rayne, where he has ever since been engaged in the livery business and
farming, somewhat extensively.  He owns four farms.  He is a justice of the
peace of the first ward, to which office he has been twice elected.  He is
also a member of the town council and member of the local school board.  He
has one child, a bright boy, nine years old, Howard E. Bruner.  Mr. Bruner's
future is bright.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 252. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.

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