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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [384-385]

           J. L. BRENNAN, Sand Beach, Justice of the Peace, Village and
        Township Clerk, and dealer in musical instruments, sewing machines,
        etc., and also insurance agent, was born near Whitehall, N.Y., Dec.
        11, 1855. His parents, ROBERT and MARY (MARA) BRENNAN, were both
        natives of Ireland. They removed to Massachusetts with their family
        when their son was in early youth. They soon after made another
        transfer, to Hampden Co., Can., where they remained one year,
        whence they came to White Rock, Huron Co., Mich., in 1867.  MR. B.
        bought a fatm of 40 acres on section 30, in Sand Beach Township,
        where MR. BRENNAN, of this sketch, grew to manhood.  The first
        effort of the latter to conduct an independent business, was in
        1875, when ne opened a confectionery store, which he conducted five
        years. He obtained a good and available knowledge of law by unaided
        application, which renders him an efficient officer in the position
        he holds as magistrate, to which he was first elected in 1880, and
        which he still holds by successive re-election. After the incor-
        poration of the village of Sand Beach, he was elected Clerk. In
        1878 he was elected Township Clerk. He was nominated by the Demo-
        cratic element in the fall of 1882 for County Clerk, and ran con-
        siderably ahead of his ticket, but was defeated.  He began the
        prosecution of the business in which he is now engaged in 1881.
        Among the sewings machines which he handles, are the White,
        Domestic, Eldridge and Royal St. John. He deals in Clough, Warren
        and Crown organs, and the varieties of merchandise common to
        similar establishments.
           MR. BRENNAN'S father lives at Sand Beach; his mother died there
        May 4, 1881.

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