Brunner, David B
educator, congressman, author, was born March 7, 1835, in Amity, Pa. In 1869 he was elected county superintendent of the public schools of the county, which office he filled until 1875; taught private school until 1880, when he opened the Reading Business college, and has since been the principal of that institution. He is the author of an elementary work on English Grammar and Analysis, and a work entitled The Indians of Berks County, Pennsylvania: He has devoted much time to mineralogy and microscopy, and has large collections of specimens in those departments of science. He was elected to the fifty-first congress, and re-elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.