Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Bronner, Walter I. September 29, 1864 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Bronner, Walter I., Stark, was born where he now resides, September 29, 1864, 
a son of Isaac D. and Mary C. (Harwick) Bronner.  The grandfather, Daniel, was 
born in Stark and settled on the farm where Walter I. now resides, in 1832, 
and there he resided until his death, June 4, 1858, aged sixty-three years.  
He served in the war of 1812, and his father, Christian, served in the 
Revolutionary War, and his father, Christian Bronner, was a native of 
Germany.  Daniel's wife was Catharine Wager, who died December 28, 1865, aged 
fifty-nine years.  They had eight children:  Oliver, Barnard, Isaac D., 
Daniel, Anna M., Dorothy E. J., Lucy J. and Clarissa.  Isaac D.Bronner was 
born where Walter I. now resides, in 1832, and lives with his son, Walter I.  
He had seven children:  Catha L., Elmer E., Walter I., Carrie M., M. Enola, 
Harwick D., F. Fayette, all of which are still living.  Mrs. Mary C. Bronner, 
their nother, died January 19, 1819.  Five of the children have been school 
teachers.  Mr. Bronner is a member of the Masonic fraternity.  Walter I. 
received his education at the common schools and at Richfield Springs, also at 
Herkimer, and at eighteen he began teaching and has taught during the winter 
ever since.  At sixteen he began life for himself.  He has followed cheese-
making for two years at Van Hornesville.  Mr. Bronner is a Granger and a Good 
Templar, and is active in the temperance cause.  In October, 1889, he bought 
the old homestead, which consists of 107 acres of land.  He is a breeder of 
Jersey cattle.  The original stock was the first Jerseys ever owned in the 
county, brought here by his father in 1867 from New Jersey.  Mr. Bronner is 
also the only breeder of Dorset horned sheep in this county.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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