Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 2.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 401.
 
FRANK BRUNNER
 
     One of the prosperous fruit raisers of Lane county is Frank Brunner, who
has become not only a leader in that line here but also does a large business as
a fruit dryer. He has shown a spirit of marked enterprise and owns a valuable
and well improved property.  Mr. Brunner was born in Germany and is a son of
Joseph and Mary (Klingle) Brunner, both of whom died in that country during the
World war.
 
      Frank Brunner secured his education in the public schools of his native
land, where he remained until he had attained his majority, when he came to the
United States. He first located in Iowa, where he bought two hundred and forty
acres of land and engaged in grain farming and stock-raising for about thirty
years. In 1919 he sold his interests there and, coming to Lane county, Oregon,
bought his present home place of twenty-five acres, in addition to which he also
purchased fifty-four acres near by. He has his land all in fruit, consisting
mostly of prunes, cherries and walnuts, of which he secures good crops, and
since locating here he has built a fine, modern home. Mr. Brunner has also for
several years been engaged in drying fruit, having erected his own dryer, with a
capacity of forty-eight tons of green prunes. During the busy season, lasting
about five weeks, he employs from eighteen to twenty men and has all the work in
that line that he can handle.
 
      In 1903, Mr. Brunner was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Thoni, a native
of Switzerland and a daughter of M. and Bertha Thoni, both of whom died in that
country. Mrs. Brunner came In the United States to live with a sister. To Mr.
and Mrs. Brunner have been born four children, namely: Ernest, who is associated
with his father in the operation of the home place; Helen, who resides at home;
Francis J., who is attending school in Portland; and Margaret, who is in high
school at Eugene. Mr. Brunner is a member of the Eugene Fruit Growers'
Association, the Oregon Fruit Growers and the Lane County Prune Growers. He is a
member of the Roman Catholic church and is held in high esteem throughout the
community.
     
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