BIO:  H. C. Brenneman, 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, York Borough, Pg 10

H. C. BRENNEMAN, assistant principal of the York High School, was born in 
Washington Township, January 14, 1858, and is a son of Jacob Brenneman, a 
prominent farmer of the upper end, residing near the village of W----ville.  Mr. 
Brenneman received the rudimentary education in the public schools, and early -- 
----- -howed an ardent thirst for knowledge, which the excellent schools of the 
vicinity encouraged.  In them he zealously studied, and succeeded so well that 
in the fall of 1875, he passed creditably at the town examination, and was 
employed as a teacher for that winter term.  The following spring he attended 
Union Seminary at New Berlin, Union Co., Penn.  Returning home he very 
successfully taught in the public schools of his native township for three more 
winter terms, and in 1878 entered the State Normal School at Millersville, where 
he graduated with a class of thirty-seven in the spring session of 1880.  After 
graduating he taught one term in Adamstown, Lancaster County, and returned to 
the normal school again, taking a more extended course in the natural sciences 
and mathematics.  He next taught a normal and select school in Millersburg, 
Dauphin County, and was afterward elected principal of the schools of that town, 
but before the fall term opened, was elected in 1881 to the position which he 
now holds.  Prof. Brenneman is a young man of fine literary tastes, excellent 
scholarship, and thoroughly devoted to the responsibilities of his profession.