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Anthony Bruno

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Anthony Bruno

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18 May 1866 (aged 51)
Hamburg, Fremont County, Iowa, USA
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Hamburg, Fremont County, Iowa, USA
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block 108
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Bruno has to go down as one of the most interesting of the French who lived in Fremont county. First, he was a mountain man and I believe he was from a French Canadian ennobled family from Maskanonga, Canada, who married into the Blackfoot Indians while fur trapping in the Rocky Mountains; these Indians turned against the white man, and in the early 1840's he is shown living in The Half Breed Neighborhood near the Thurman area, where (1) he has Blackfoot children baptized by traveling Jesuit priests, and (2) where he undoubtedly knew the Robideaus' and Old Caleb Greenwood very well; next he was married into the Pottawatomie tribe, where this wife drew annuities from that tribe; then he remarried an Anglo - Saxon and lived at French Village, and died there and is buried at McKissick's Grove. I believe he had children by each of his wives.

From the Iowa Daily Register Thursday May 29, 1866 Death notice is in second colmunm the very bottom. "Anthony Bruno, a Frenchman living in Fremont County, recently committed suicide by strychnine as we learn from the Sidney Union. He was in a despondent state and probably deranged
Bruno has to go down as one of the most interesting of the French who lived in Fremont county. First, he was a mountain man and I believe he was from a French Canadian ennobled family from Maskanonga, Canada, who married into the Blackfoot Indians while fur trapping in the Rocky Mountains; these Indians turned against the white man, and in the early 1840's he is shown living in The Half Breed Neighborhood near the Thurman area, where (1) he has Blackfoot children baptized by traveling Jesuit priests, and (2) where he undoubtedly knew the Robideaus' and Old Caleb Greenwood very well; next he was married into the Pottawatomie tribe, where this wife drew annuities from that tribe; then he remarried an Anglo - Saxon and lived at French Village, and died there and is buried at McKissick's Grove. I believe he had children by each of his wives.

From the Iowa Daily Register Thursday May 29, 1866 Death notice is in second colmunm the very bottom. "Anthony Bruno, a Frenchman living in Fremont County, recently committed suicide by strychnine as we learn from the Sidney Union. He was in a despondent state and probably deranged

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