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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Linn County, Iowa, Vol. 2
pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago - 1887

        [407]

        DAVID BRANT, editor and proprietor of the Walker News, is one of
     the prominent journalists of Linn County, and is conducting his paper
     with commendable enterprise and ability.  He is a native of Shelby
     County, Ind., and was born July 6, 1850, at Shelbyville.  His parents
     were WINANS and WINNIFRED (BENNETT) BRANT, natives of Pennsylvania,
     and of German and English descent and extraction respectively.  WINANS
     BRANT was born in 1826, and died Nov. 30, 1851; his wife, WINNIFRED,
     was born March 20, 1832.  MRS. BRANT was again united in marriage, in
     1855, to MR. SAMUEL HILL, and came to Ringgold County, Iowa, where the
     subject of our sketch was reared to manhood.  His early advantages
     were extremely limited, and he was obliged, in a great measure, to
     support himself and obtain the means for his education.  This, in-
     stead of dicouraging him, only nerved him to greater efforts.  He made
     the most of his opportunities, was intensely studious at school, and
     no less so in his leisure hours at home, so that at an early age he
     was fitted to enter upon a course of study at the Iowa City Academy,
     where he remained during two terms.  In the fall of 1870 he entered
     the State University at Iowa City, where, with the exception of two
     terms, he completed a full course of study under competant instruc-
     tors, remaining at this institution for five years and one term
     beyond.  After leaving the university he was engaged as editor of the
     Iowa City Journal, with which he remained for two years, and of which
     he became joint proprietor.  he disposed of his interests in this
     paper to take a position on the Iowa City Republican.  In the spring
     of 1881 he went to Cedar Rapids, where he was employed as city editor
     of the Cedar Rapids Republican, with which he was connected in this
     capacity for six months.  From there he came to Walker, and subse-
     quently established the News, which is now rapidly taking a position
     among the leading journals of this locality.
        MR. BRANT was married, Nov. 30, 1878, at Waterloo, Iowa, to MISS
     RUTH HURD, a native of the Empire State, born in Niagara County, Aug.
     22, 1858.  MRS. B. is the daughter of ISAAC N. and ANNIS (RICHARDSON)
     HURD, who are now living at Waterloo.  The parental family consisted
     of three children - RUTH, NELLIE and DAVIS, all of whom are living.
     The union of MR. and MRS. B. has been blest by the birth of three
     children - LUCY W., born April 15, 1880; IRVING N., Jan. 17, 1883, and
     an infant son, May 20, 1886.
        MR. and MRS. BRANT are Universalists in belief, and in politics
     MR. B. is strongly Republican.  He is a favorite in the social circles
     of this vicinity, and a member of the I. O. O. F.  He has been Secre-
     tary of the Grand Lodge of Good Templars, and is the encourager of
     temperance, morality and all the social virtues.  He is a thorough-
     going business man, and is fulfilling all the obligations of a good
     citizen.

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