Bio: Bruno, Benjamin (History - 1852)

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Surnames: BRUNO BERNARD

----Source: Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties, WI, by The Lewis Publishing Co, 1891 pages 308-309:

BENJAMIN BRUNO, a lumberman of Thorp, was born in Charlotte, Vermont, December 6, 1852, the son of Thomas and Mary (Bernard) Bruno, both natives of Canada. They were the parents of twelve children, eight now living, namely: Lewis, Charles, Mary, Sarah, Benjamin, Leander, Alonzo and Lorenzo (twins). The father was a soldier in the patriotic war of Canada, but subsequently the parents moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1866, where the father died in 1869. After her husband's death the mother married Benjamin Major, and removed to Canada.

The subject of this sketch received a limited education in his native State, where he also worked in the shingle mills until the fall of 1879. In that year he came to Stevens Point, Wisconsin and thence, in the fall of 1880 to Thorp, where he remained until 1884. Next he removed to Bateman, this State, where he worked in a shingle mill for Charles E. Parks and Co. until 1887, and then returned to this city. When he first came here there were but two houses, which belonged to J. S. & E. A Boardman. George Lesley moved to this place the same fall, and kept a hotel in the old railroad camp. Mr. Bruno has run the shingle mill for Nye, Lusk Hudson every summer since returning to this place, and has logged for the same firm during the winters.

He was married June 4, 1875, to Elizabeth Delaney, a daughter of James C. Delaney, of Howard, Brown County, Wisconsin. They have had six children, five now living: May, born May 1, 1876 Annetta, May 14, 1878 Alice M., January 11, 1881 Frank G., November 23, 1883, and William G., February 18, 1889. One son, Lyman G., died in his second year.