HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912.  Common version, Vol. III,
p. 1159-60.   [Full page photograph of Mr. Bruner included with bio.]
[Jefferson Co.]

WILLIAM THOMAS BRUNER, M. D.--The profession of medicine now numbers in
the ranks some of the most eminent men of the country, men of great force
of character who are devoting their lives to alleviating the sufferings
of mankind.  As the standard of the profession rises, the class of men
attracted to it becomes higher.  One of the prominent physicians and
specialists, who has made a splendid record as a medical practitioner, is
the gentlemen whose name heads this sketch.
     Dr. Bruner was born in Garnetsville, Meade county, Kentucky, on
March 18, 1871, the son of the Rev. Isaac Willis Bruner, who was born in
Grayson county, Kentucky, on March 31, 1836.  The original ancestor was a
native of Germany who settled in Virginia and reared a large family, part
of whom went to Texas and others to Kentucky.
     Rev. I. W. Bruner is a man of finely educated mind, and one of the
early teachers of Meade county, at one time professor in Salem College at
Garnetsville, Kentucky.  For fifty-three years he has been a member of the
Baptist church, and is now district superintendent of the Kentucky
Children's Home Society, and he has been for about ten years traveling
over the entire state, where he is one of the very best known men of
Kentucky.  He went to Hodgenville from Garnetsville, where he lived
thirteen years, thence to Henry county, and then lived in Bowling Green
until 1903, when he came to Louisville.  He married Maggie E. Rogers who
was born in Grayson county, a daughter of Judge Benjamin L. Rogers, a
niece of Judge Henry Clay Rogers, of Grayson county, and sister of Henry
Clay Rogers, a prominent stock buyer of Litchfield [sic], Kentucky.  She
is still living, her birth having occurred in 1848, on February 26.
     Rev. I. W. Bruner and his wife were the parents of the following
children: Professor James D. Bruner, Annie Blanch, Dr. W. T. Bruner,
Professor General Perry Bruner and Tula Lee.  Professor James D. Bruner,
president of Chowan College, Murfreesboro, North Carolina, married
Elizabeth H. Cooley, of Chicago.  He was educated in and graduated from
Georgetown College, received the degree of Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins
University, then spent two years in special study in Europe. He was
professor of Romance Languages at Chicago University for four years, until
his health broke down.  He was afterwards [sic] professor of Romance
Languages in the University at North Carolina, then became president of
Chowan College, 1909, and was a professor in the University of Illinois
at Champaign for a few years before going to Chicago University. His wife
was a teacher of the German language in Illinois University.  The Professor
is an author of note and has published several books, all on the line of
his work.  Annie Blanch married Dr. B. L. Bruner, at present secretary of
the state of Kentucky.  Professor General Perry Bruner graduated from
Georgetown College and is a director of Music at Wayland College,
Plainview, Texas, and is unmarried.  Tula Lee married F. M. Gerard, and
resides in Bowling Green.
     Dr. William Thomas Bruner spent his boyhood days in Hodgenville,
Kentucky, where he attended school.  He then attended Franklin (Indiana)
College, and finally graduated from Fairmont College, Kentucky, in 1886,
with the degree of B.S.  He later was graduated from the Louisville
Hospital College of Medicine in 1896, with the degree of M.D.  In 1890
the Doctor was graduated from the Chicago College of Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat.  He began general practice in Louisville in 1896, but for ten years
he has made a specialty of eye, ear, nose and throat treatment.  The
Doctor was a teacher in the medical department of the University of
Kentucky and one year with the University of Louisville.  His residence
and office are situated at 2743 Dumesnil street.
     All his life Dr. Bruner has been interested in church and Sunday-
school work, and he has been a member of the Baptist church twenty-six
years, and is president of the Kentucky Baptist Sunday-school Union,
president of the Louisville Baptist Sunday-school Union and president of
the Long Run Baptist Sunday-school Union.  He is also superintendent of the
Sunday-school of Parkland Baptist church.  Dr. Bruner is a member of the
Jefferson County Medical Society, the Kentucky State Medical Society, the
American Medical Association and the West End Methodist Society.  In
fraternal relations he is a Master Mason.
     Dr. Bruner married Eva Morris, who was born in Sulphur, Henry
county, Kentucky, the daughter of the late W. G. Morris, a tobacco broker
of Sulphur and Louisville and of the firm of W. G. Morris & Company, of
Louisville.  They have two children, Nellie Ree, born July 14, 1890,
graduated from the Girl's High School of Louisville, and married to E. G.
Slaughter of Louisville and William Thomas Jr., born May 5, 1902.

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