The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 212
A portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Brunson appears in this publication.

DANIEL W. BRUNSON.

Daniel W. Brunson, who has been actively and successfully identified with
ranching interests in the Kittitas valley during the past twenty-two years, now
owns and cultivates an excellent farm of one hundred and eighty-three acres
situated three and a half miles northwest of Ellensburg. As an auctioneer he has
also had charge of about all the public sales in Kittitas county in the joist
fourteen years. His birth occurred in Ralls county, Missouri, on the 1st of May,
1872, his parents being Carden Porter and Drucilla (Hunt) Brunson, who were
natives of Ohio and Illinois respectively and became early settlers of
Missouri. The father devoted his attention to general agricultural pursuits
throughout his active business career, but both he and his wife have now passed
away.

Daniel W. Brunson attended the public schools in the acquirement of an
education and on attaining his majority undertook the cultivation of rented
land in Missouri. He was thus engaged in that state for three years or until
1896, when he made his way westward to the Kittitas valley and here took up a
homestead claim. He also worked as a farm hand by the month for three years and
he continued the operation of his place until disposing of the property in 1910.
In that year he purchased a tract of eighty acres near Thorp and thereon carried
on his agricultural interests until 1915, when he sold the place and bought his
present farm of one hundred and eighty-three acres three and a half miles
northwest of Ellensburg. He has erected thereon a substantial barn and other
buildings and has brought his fields under a high state of cultivation, annually
raising excellent crops of hay and grain. He likewise devotes considerable
attention to sheep raising, which branch of his business adds materially to his
income.

On the 23d of December, 1903, Mr. Brunson was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary B.
Hawthorn, a native of Tennessee and a daughter of J. S. and Josephine (Minnick)
Hawthorn. The father still resides in Tennessee, but the mother has passed away.
Mr. and Mrs. Brunson have become the parents of three children: Roy Garden,
Annie Irene and Daniel Hawthorn. Mr. Brunson gives his political allegiance to
the republican party, exercising his right of franchise in support of its men
and measures. The prosperity which he now enjoys is all the more creditable by
reason of the fact that it has been entirely self-acquired and through his own
efforts and industry he has won a place among the substantial and representative
farmers of Kittitas county.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.