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History of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church
History of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church Author:Jasper Abraham Huffman General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: The Bethel Publishing Company Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com... more » where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. Elder Daniel Brenneman. (Biographical Sketch.) Daniel Brenneman was born near Bremen, Fairfield County, Ohio, June 8, 1834. He was the son of Henry (1791-1866), the son of Abraham (1747-1815), the son of Melchior, a Mennonite exile from Switzerland, and one of the first settlers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1715. At four years of age Daniel had a narrow escape from death by the smallpox. His mother, a brother and a sister died of this dread disease at the same time (March, 1838). He grew to manhood on the farm, and although deprived of a loving mother's care, under the influence and teaching of a godly father he was kept free from the vices so common to youth. His father frequently read aloud to his children from a mammoth German edition of the Martyr's Mirror, and by this means helped to instill into the hearts of his children a love and respect for the precious doctrines of the Mennonite Church, for which she has suffered so much persecution; and as a result they all became active and influential members of that body, three of the sons becoming ministers and one a deacon. He was converted in 1856, and soon after joined the Mennonite Church in Fairfield County, Ohio. In March, 1857, he was married to Susannah Keagy, of Augusta County, Virginia, which union was blessed with ten children, five sons and five daughters, all of ELDER DANIEL BRENNEMAN. (1834-1919.) whom are still (1920) living and all of whom profess the Christian religion -- all, except two, being of the Mennon- ite faith. One daughter, Phoebe, is in the foreign fi...« less