Elwood Bruner

Elwood Bruner was an American politician and lawyer.

Bruner was born September 27, 1854, in Zanesville, Ohio, to Joseph Asbury Bruner, a Methodist minister, and Margaret Morris Bruner and in 1856 went with his family to Marysville, California. In 1863 and 1864 Reverend Bruner was preaching in Sacramento. Young Elwood graduated in 1874 from the University of the Pacific, when the campus was in San Jose. He then studied law in the office of Moore, Laine, Delmas amp Leib, and in April 1877 he was admitted to practice before the State Supreme Court. In 1881 he became a partner with W.A. Cheney. He became Grand Master of the Stanislaus unit of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in May 1887. He was married to Lillian J. Flint in March 1880 they had three daughters. He died on January 15, 1915, in Byron Hot Springs, California.

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