"BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Brazil City and Township" DANIEL K. BRANN is the sixth of a family of seven children of Henry N. and Moriah (Garner) Brann, and was born in Butler County, Ohio, on February 6, 1841. He lived on a farm during his early years, having good educational opportunities, and taught school at the age of sixteen. In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Twenty-first Indiana Infantry, and participated in many of the battles of the Peninsula, under McClellan. In December, 1863, he was transferred to Battery I, First Indiana Heavy Artillery, on his veteranizing, and came home on a thirty days' furlough. At the expiration of his furlough, he joined his command, and was sent to Baton Ridge, La; thence to Brazier City, after the surrender of Forts Jackson and St. Phillips; thence to New Orleans, and thence to Mobile Bay, where he participated in the siege of Forts Morgan and Gaines; and thence to Fort Pickens, Fla., remaining there six months, after which he went to Baton Rouge, La., where, on January 16, 1866, he received his discharge. He returned home and engaged in Mr. Stunkard's mills, as head sawyer, remaining there six years, three of which being foreman in the yard. At the end of this time, he became employed as a coal miner, which business he has industriously followed to the present, he being now an operator. He was married, on January 25, 1874, to Araminta Miller, a native of Clay County. Brann is a member of I.O.O.F., and also of the Knights of Honor, and also of the Knights of Pythias."
"BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Brazil City and Township" DANIEL K. BRANN is the sixth of a family of seven children of Henry N. and Moriah (Garner) Brann, and was born in Butler County, Ohio, on February 6, 1841. He lived on a farm during his early years, having good educational opportunities, and taught school at the age of sixteen. In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Twenty-first Indiana Infantry, and participated in many of the battles of the Peninsula, under McClellan. In December, 1863, he was transferred to Battery I, First Indiana Heavy Artillery, on his veteranizing, and came home on a thirty days' furlough. At the expiration of his furlough, he joined his command, and was sent to Baton Ridge, La; thence to Brazier City, after the surrender of Forts Jackson and St. Phillips; thence to New Orleans, and thence to Mobile Bay, where he participated in the siege of Forts Morgan and Gaines; and thence to Fort Pickens, Fla., remaining there six months, after which he went to Baton Rouge, La., where, on January 16, 1866, he received his discharge. He returned home and engaged in Mr. Stunkard's mills, as head sawyer, remaining there six years, three of which being foreman in the yard. At the end of this time, he became employed as a coal miner, which business he has industriously followed to the present, he being now an operator. He was married, on January 25, 1874, to Araminta Miller, a native of Clay County. Brann is a member of I.O.O.F., and also of the Knights of Honor, and also of the Knights of Pythias."
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