BIOGRAPHIES:  Joseph H. BRUNNER, Lima Township, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by:  oldstufn@hotmail.com  on  11 May 2005
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Joseph H. Brunner, a general farmer and stock raiser of Lima
township, Pepin county, was born in this township and county, Feb.
12, 1874, son of Joseph and Mary (Falkner) Brunner.  The parents were
born and married in Austria, coming to the United States in 1871, the
year of their marriage, when they were each 29 years old.  They
located on a farm in Lima township, one mile from the present
residence of their son , John A. Brunner. Joseph Brunner is now
living with his daughter, Mrs. Frank Schumpf, in Durand, his wife
having died in October, 1915. Joseph H. Brunner was educated in the
school located in the Howard district, Lima township, and was early
trained to agricultural work on the home farm. He was married Nov.
24, 1903, to Mary Bauer, who was born in Wisconsin and who died June
12, 1915. She had been the mother of three children: Florence, who
died Sept. 17, 1915; Eleanor and Joseph Henry, the two latter
residing with their father. It was at the birth of Joseph Henry that
the mother died. At the time of his marriage to Mary Bauer, Mr.
Brunner began the improvements  on his present farm, which consists
of 200 acres of land, 40 acres of which lie in Buffalo County. He has
erected substantial and commodious buildings and has a good equipment
of agricultural tools and machinery. His residence is of red brick,
contains eleven rooms and is heated with hot water and lighted with
electricity from his own electric plant.  He is now engaged in
breeding Guernsey cattle and Poland-China hogs, besides raising
crops, and has taken rank among the enterprising and successful
farmers of the township.  On Oct. 17, 1916, he married for his second
wife Julia Bauer, who was born in Lima township, daughter of John J.
and Victoria (Schuch) Bauer. Her parents, who came from Austria, were
early settlers in Lima township, and Mrs. Victoria Bauer still
resides here.  The father is now deceased.  Joseph H. Brunner is a
stockholder in the Inter-County Telephone Company.  He is a member of
the Catholic Church in Lima, also the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin,
and the Catholic Family Protective Association.

-Transcribed from the "History of Buffalo and Pepin Counties
Wisconsin, 1919", page 635

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