Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with an introductory historical sketch . (For ancestral history see sketchof Henry U. Brunner, page 527 of thiswork). He was reared in Worcester town-ship, where he attended the public schoolsand then taught some time, after which heentered Washington Hall Collegiate insti-tute at Trappe, and took the course of thateducational institution. Leaving Trappe,he entered Eastmans Business college atPoughkeepsie, New York, from whi
Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with an introductory historical sketch . (For ancestral history see sketchof Henry U. Brunner, page 527 of thiswork). He was reared in Worcester town-ship, where he attended the public schoolsand then taught some time, after which heentered Washington Hall Collegiate insti-tute at Trappe, and took the course of thateducational institution. Leaving Trappe,he entered Eastmans Business college atPoughkeepsie, New York, from which wellknown commercial institution he was grad-uated at the end of only thirteen weeksstudy. He then became book-keeper inthe Philadelphia office of the Grover &Baker Sewing Machine company, and re-mained there up to 1866. In that year heconcluded to resume teaching, in which hehas been successful and in which he hadalways taken a deep interest. He thereforetaught one year at Jenkintowu, and thenconcluded to put in operation his longcherished design of opening a first classacademy and connecting it with a practicaland efficient business school. In 1867 heorganized such an institution at Kulpsville,. ^O ? Zo . VyJ4sc<^r7s^-iJZSi^; • Biographical Sketches. 617 and soon demonstrated the feasibilty of theidea and its practical value as a factor in avaluable home education. After four yearsof successful teaching, he removed in April,1871, to North Wales as a more favorablecenter for the full development of his idea,and founded the North Wales academy andschool of business. Each succeeding yearhas added to its efficiency and the numberof pupils in attendance, until to-day itstands as one of the foremost institutions ofits kind in the State. Professor Brunneralso publishes a paper in connection withhis institution called The Academy Acorn,which is devoted to school life and the gen-eral improvement of the pupils. He is aDemocrat, and a member and elder of theLutheran church, in
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