BIO: Owen F. BRUNER, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 231.
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  OWEN F. BRUNER, merchant and justice of the peace at Petersburg, 
Logan township, Huntingdon county, was born June 8, 1840, near 
Duncannon, Perry county, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (McGowan) Bruner. 
His grandfather, Jacob Bruner, born in Cumberland county, of Swiss 
descent, was a farmer and miller, and spent his last years in 
Duncannon, Perry county. Jacob Bruner (2) was born at Landisburg, Perry 
county, attended the public schools, and then began the milling 
business in Duncannon. Later he became a cattle dealer, and is still 
living in Altoona at the age of eighty-five. He was married in Chester 
county, Pa., to Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander McGown, a plasterer of 
Chester county, also a farmer and local preacher in the Methodist 
church. Their children are: Owen F.; and Sererah J., deceased, wife of 
Theodore Renner, of Petersburg. Mr. Bruner is a Republican, and a 
member of the Methodist church. His wife died July 5, 1895, at the age 
of eighty-three.
  Owen F. Bruner attended the home schools and the Cumberland Valley 
Institute, and then taught school one year in Perry county. He was then 
clerk in a wholesale notion house in Philadelphia for four years. About 
this time he enlisted in an independent troop, participated in a 
skirmish in West Virginia, was at Chambersburg when that town was 
burned, and was afterwards in West Virginia when four hundred 
Confederates were captured. After nine months' service, he was 
discharged in January, 1864. For the next thirty-three years he lived 
at Petersburg, Huntingdon county, being a cattle dealer in that and 
neighboring counties. He has since been in the mercantile business in 
Petersburg. In 1865, Owen F. Bruner married, in Petersburg, Mrs. Mary 
Wilson, who was born in Cambria county, and died in 1892. In 1893 he 
married Rebecca, daughter of David Isenberg; he had no children by 
either marriage. In 1883 he was elected justice of the peace on the 
Republican ticket and has filled the office ever since; his decisions 
have always been sustained by the higher courts. He was also a member 
of the town council for three terms. He teaches in the Sunday-school of 
the Methodist church.