Henry Lane Bruner
Born in Knox county, Illinois, 1861; graduated from Abingdon College, classical course, in 1880; spent the year 1880-81 in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, and the following year began teaching natural sciences in Abingdon College; during the summers of 1881 to 1884 was employed, also, as assistant on the United States Fish Commission; in 1884, when Eureka and Abingdon Colleges were consolidated, was elected to the chair of Natural Science at Eureka; in 1886 resigned on account of failing health and spent the following
years recuperating in Colorado and Texas; in 1890 married Miss Carolyn L. Smock, of Colorado
Springs; elected to chair of Biology and Geology in Drake University in 1891, and the following year removed to his present home at Irvington, Indiana, to occupy a similar position in Butler University.
Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.