Biography written in The National cyclopedia of the colored race;
by Richardson, Clement, Publication date 1919
"ONCE the Seminole Nation of Indians occupied the beautiful land of Florida. Many years ago, they moved to Oklahoma, the land of the Fair Gods. The Seminoles held slaves in Florida before the Civil war. It is an interesting bit of history to know that the Bruners not only were free men and women all of their lives, but are descendants of a Seminole chief. Today they can trace their ancestors seven generations to the good old days when Seminoles lived happily on the extreme peninsular of the southland.
Yesterday in the old Indian Territory, were large ranches, and cornfields, and meadows where Na tives and Indian-wards of the Federal Government stood together like free men. Nor were they one whit behind civilization in lodges and other fra ternal organizations for free Masonary was known and practiced by all upright free inhabitants. And where the Federal Government failed to establish any institution for the betterment of society, the Baptist Missionaries and the Presbyterian Mission aries, and the representatives of other churches es tablished churches, school houses and academies. French Wilson Bruner, was born January 13, 1883. He cast his first vote in Seminole County, Oklahoma. In his early days he attended the Mekusukey Academy, an institution which belonged to the Seminole Nation, Indian territory, now Seminole County, Oklahoma.
And later, finishing his course at Hampton, he did work in the Summer Schools of Chicago Uni versity. In 1908, he taught a common school on the Bruner estate in Oklahoma. The next year he took charge of the Manual Training Department of Douglas High School, Oklahoma City, Okla. For ten years Mr. F. W. Bruner has been in charge of this work with great success and marvelous ad vancement from a small uncouth manual training room in 1909, to a $10,000.00 structure, in 1915, where he has prepared students for Pratt Univer sity, New York, and other institutions of learning.
Mr. Bruner is more of a business man than other wise. In Oklahoma City ,in 1909, he invested with a partner in the drug business. Later, he interest ed himself in the oil industry, and later still he sold his drug interest to his partner and turned all of his attention to the development of oils. He joined the Springvale Oil and Gas Company, and is now the company's Secretary. Inheriting some money, he become very well off. He owns lands in Sem inole County, land in Garvin County, a residence in Oklahoma City, a stock farm in Oklahoma, and carries investments in various oil companies.
Again, true, to the Bruner instinct, French Wil son Bruner takes an interest in all form of life work about him. He is an active member of the Baptist Church, a member of Knights of Pythias, CC and past CC of star Chamber No. 23, Past Master of Keystone Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., and a Shriner, and a member of the Great Western Consistory, Oklahoma Jurisdiction. Too, he is a chairman of the teachers divisional and High School faculty, of the Oklahoma Negro Teachers Association. Moreover he has been Vice Presi dent and secretary of the said association.
The number and diversity of such connections, all of them highly honorable and useful, indicates the regard that has fixed for this prominent man so high a measure of Civic service, and he has nobly responded to the call in every phaze of the duty that this draft on his fidelity and capacities has im posed. In no relation has the worth of Mr. Bruner been more strikingly demonstrated than in the manner in which he has responded to these high demands which lie so completely out of the narrow realms of self.
Mr. Bruner was married to Miss Blossie Bell of Muskogee, Oklahoma, Sept. 1914. They live in their beautiful residence in Oklahoma City; a residence which is valued at ten thousand dollars. The one thing lacking to make their home life ideal is the absence of children"
**Also known as Wilson F. Bruner
**Legally separated from wife, Blossie Bruner prior to death (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/699838:9077)
by Richardson, Clement, Publication date 1919
"ONCE the Seminole Nation of Indians occupied the beautiful land of Florida. Many years ago, they moved to Oklahoma, the land of the Fair Gods. The Seminoles held slaves in Florida before the Civil war. It is an interesting bit of history to know that the Bruners not only were free men and women all of their lives, but are descendants of a Seminole chief. Today they can trace their ancestors seven generations to the good old days when Seminoles lived happily on the extreme peninsular of the southland.
Yesterday in the old Indian Territory, were large ranches, and cornfields, and meadows where Na tives and Indian-wards of the Federal Government stood together like free men. Nor were they one whit behind civilization in lodges and other fra ternal organizations for free Masonary was known and practiced by all upright free inhabitants. And where the Federal Government failed to establish any institution for the betterment of society, the Baptist Missionaries and the Presbyterian Mission aries, and the representatives of other churches es tablished churches, school houses and academies. French Wilson Bruner, was born January 13, 1883. He cast his first vote in Seminole County, Oklahoma. In his early days he attended the Mekusukey Academy, an institution which belonged to the Seminole Nation, Indian territory, now Seminole County, Oklahoma.
And later, finishing his course at Hampton, he did work in the Summer Schools of Chicago Uni versity. In 1908, he taught a common school on the Bruner estate in Oklahoma. The next year he took charge of the Manual Training Department of Douglas High School, Oklahoma City, Okla. For ten years Mr. F. W. Bruner has been in charge of this work with great success and marvelous ad vancement from a small uncouth manual training room in 1909, to a $10,000.00 structure, in 1915, where he has prepared students for Pratt Univer sity, New York, and other institutions of learning.
Mr. Bruner is more of a business man than other wise. In Oklahoma City ,in 1909, he invested with a partner in the drug business. Later, he interest ed himself in the oil industry, and later still he sold his drug interest to his partner and turned all of his attention to the development of oils. He joined the Springvale Oil and Gas Company, and is now the company's Secretary. Inheriting some money, he become very well off. He owns lands in Sem inole County, land in Garvin County, a residence in Oklahoma City, a stock farm in Oklahoma, and carries investments in various oil companies.
Again, true, to the Bruner instinct, French Wil son Bruner takes an interest in all form of life work about him. He is an active member of the Baptist Church, a member of Knights of Pythias, CC and past CC of star Chamber No. 23, Past Master of Keystone Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., and a Shriner, and a member of the Great Western Consistory, Oklahoma Jurisdiction. Too, he is a chairman of the teachers divisional and High School faculty, of the Oklahoma Negro Teachers Association. Moreover he has been Vice Presi dent and secretary of the said association.
The number and diversity of such connections, all of them highly honorable and useful, indicates the regard that has fixed for this prominent man so high a measure of Civic service, and he has nobly responded to the call in every phaze of the duty that this draft on his fidelity and capacities has im posed. In no relation has the worth of Mr. Bruner been more strikingly demonstrated than in the manner in which he has responded to these high demands which lie so completely out of the narrow realms of self.
Mr. Bruner was married to Miss Blossie Bell of Muskogee, Oklahoma, Sept. 1914. They live in their beautiful residence in Oklahoma City; a residence which is valued at ten thousand dollars. The one thing lacking to make their home life ideal is the absence of children"
**Also known as Wilson F. Bruner
**Legally separated from wife, Blossie Bruner prior to death (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/699838:9077)
Biography written in The National cyclopedia of the colored race;
by Richardson, Clement, Publication date 1919
"ONCE the Seminole Nation of Indians occupied the beautiful land of Florida. Many years ago, they moved to Oklahoma, the land of the Fair Gods. The Seminoles held slaves in Florida before the Civil war. It is an interesting bit of history to know that the Bruners not only were free men and women all of their lives, but are descendants of a Seminole chief. Today they can trace their ancestors seven generations to the good old days when Seminoles lived happily on the extreme peninsular of the southland.
Yesterday in the old Indian Territory, were large ranches, and cornfields, and meadows where Na tives and Indian-wards of the Federal Government stood together like free men. Nor were they one whit behind civilization in lodges and other fra ternal organizations for free Masonary was known and practiced by all upright free inhabitants. And where the Federal Government failed to establish any institution for the betterment of society, the Baptist Missionaries and the Presbyterian Mission aries, and the representatives of other churches es tablished churches, school houses and academies. French Wilson Bruner, was born January 13, 1883. He cast his first vote in Seminole County, Oklahoma. In his early days he attended the Mekusukey Academy, an institution which belonged to the Seminole Nation, Indian territory, now Seminole County, Oklahoma.
And later, finishing his course at Hampton, he did work in the Summer Schools of Chicago Uni versity. In 1908, he taught a common school on the Bruner estate in Oklahoma. The next year he took charge of the Manual Training Department of Douglas High School, Oklahoma City, Okla. For ten years Mr. F. W. Bruner has been in charge of this work with great success and marvelous ad vancement from a small uncouth manual training room in 1909, to a $10,000.00 structure, in 1915, where he has prepared students for Pratt Univer sity, New York, and other institutions of learning.
Mr. Bruner is more of a business man than other wise. In Oklahoma City ,in 1909, he invested with a partner in the drug business. Later, he interest ed himself in the oil industry, and later still he sold his drug interest to his partner and turned all of his attention to the development of oils. He joined the Springvale Oil and Gas Company, and is now the company's Secretary. Inheriting some money, he become very well off. He owns lands in Sem inole County, land in Garvin County, a residence in Oklahoma City, a stock farm in Oklahoma, and carries investments in various oil companies.
Again, true, to the Bruner instinct, French Wil son Bruner takes an interest in all form of life work about him. He is an active member of the Baptist Church, a member of Knights of Pythias, CC and past CC of star Chamber No. 23, Past Master of Keystone Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., and a Shriner, and a member of the Great Western Consistory, Oklahoma Jurisdiction. Too, he is a chairman of the teachers divisional and High School faculty, of the Oklahoma Negro Teachers Association. Moreover he has been Vice Presi dent and secretary of the said association.
The number and diversity of such connections, all of them highly honorable and useful, indicates the regard that has fixed for this prominent man so high a measure of Civic service, and he has nobly responded to the call in every phaze of the duty that this draft on his fidelity and capacities has im posed. In no relation has the worth of Mr. Bruner been more strikingly demonstrated than in the manner in which he has responded to these high demands which lie so completely out of the narrow realms of self.
Mr. Bruner was married to Miss Blossie Bell of Muskogee, Oklahoma, Sept. 1914. They live in their beautiful residence in Oklahoma City; a residence which is valued at ten thousand dollars. The one thing lacking to make their home life ideal is the absence of children"
**Also known as Wilson F. Bruner
**Legally separated from wife, Blossie Bruner prior to death (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/699838:9077)
by Richardson, Clement, Publication date 1919
"ONCE the Seminole Nation of Indians occupied the beautiful land of Florida. Many years ago, they moved to Oklahoma, the land of the Fair Gods. The Seminoles held slaves in Florida before the Civil war. It is an interesting bit of history to know that the Bruners not only were free men and women all of their lives, but are descendants of a Seminole chief. Today they can trace their ancestors seven generations to the good old days when Seminoles lived happily on the extreme peninsular of the southland.
Yesterday in the old Indian Territory, were large ranches, and cornfields, and meadows where Na tives and Indian-wards of the Federal Government stood together like free men. Nor were they one whit behind civilization in lodges and other fra ternal organizations for free Masonary was known and practiced by all upright free inhabitants. And where the Federal Government failed to establish any institution for the betterment of society, the Baptist Missionaries and the Presbyterian Mission aries, and the representatives of other churches es tablished churches, school houses and academies. French Wilson Bruner, was born January 13, 1883. He cast his first vote in Seminole County, Oklahoma. In his early days he attended the Mekusukey Academy, an institution which belonged to the Seminole Nation, Indian territory, now Seminole County, Oklahoma.
And later, finishing his course at Hampton, he did work in the Summer Schools of Chicago Uni versity. In 1908, he taught a common school on the Bruner estate in Oklahoma. The next year he took charge of the Manual Training Department of Douglas High School, Oklahoma City, Okla. For ten years Mr. F. W. Bruner has been in charge of this work with great success and marvelous ad vancement from a small uncouth manual training room in 1909, to a $10,000.00 structure, in 1915, where he has prepared students for Pratt Univer sity, New York, and other institutions of learning.
Mr. Bruner is more of a business man than other wise. In Oklahoma City ,in 1909, he invested with a partner in the drug business. Later, he interest ed himself in the oil industry, and later still he sold his drug interest to his partner and turned all of his attention to the development of oils. He joined the Springvale Oil and Gas Company, and is now the company's Secretary. Inheriting some money, he become very well off. He owns lands in Sem inole County, land in Garvin County, a residence in Oklahoma City, a stock farm in Oklahoma, and carries investments in various oil companies.
Again, true, to the Bruner instinct, French Wil son Bruner takes an interest in all form of life work about him. He is an active member of the Baptist Church, a member of Knights of Pythias, CC and past CC of star Chamber No. 23, Past Master of Keystone Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., and a Shriner, and a member of the Great Western Consistory, Oklahoma Jurisdiction. Too, he is a chairman of the teachers divisional and High School faculty, of the Oklahoma Negro Teachers Association. Moreover he has been Vice Presi dent and secretary of the said association.
The number and diversity of such connections, all of them highly honorable and useful, indicates the regard that has fixed for this prominent man so high a measure of Civic service, and he has nobly responded to the call in every phaze of the duty that this draft on his fidelity and capacities has im posed. In no relation has the worth of Mr. Bruner been more strikingly demonstrated than in the manner in which he has responded to these high demands which lie so completely out of the narrow realms of self.
Mr. Bruner was married to Miss Blossie Bell of Muskogee, Oklahoma, Sept. 1914. They live in their beautiful residence in Oklahoma City; a residence which is valued at ten thousand dollars. The one thing lacking to make their home life ideal is the absence of children"
**Also known as Wilson F. Bruner
**Legally separated from wife, Blossie Bruner prior to death (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/699838:9077)
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