BIO:  William H. Brenise, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 170

WILLIAM H. BRENISE, superintendent of Young & Co’s. flavine and extract works, at Shrewsbury 
Station, was born in Shrewsbury, December 29, 1856.  His parents were Samuel and Mary 
(Klinefelter) Brenise, of York County, who had six children of whom he was the youngest.  He 
was educated at the public schools, and at the age of sixteen years he began working in the 
above works, and April 1, 1883, became superintendent.  He has under him fifteen men, and under 
his supervision 2,000 tons of bark are annually converted into flavine and extract.  His 
father, who was a carpenter, died at Shrewsbury, May, 1883, aged sixty-seven years.  Mr. 
Brenise belongs to the K. of P., of Glen Rock.