Edward and Theodore Brus Biography >From "History of Davenport and Scott County" Vol. II by Harry E. Downer-S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. 1910 Chicago. Surnames: Brus, Schluter, Robinson, Oswald. One of the extensive farms in Buffalo township is that cultivated by Edward and Theodore Brus, sons of Jacob Brus, who was one of the prosperous German farmers of Scott county. He was born in Prussia, November 29, 1829, and was about eighteen years of age when he came to America with his father, John H. Brus, for his mother, who was Miss Mary Schluter in her maidenhood, had died in the old country about 1850 and with his father engaged in farming. The latter died in 1879. In 1861 Jacob Brus began farming for himself. He was married on the 7th of January, that year, to Miss Eliza J. Robinson, a daughter of John H. and Mary E. (Oswald) Robinson, and they became the parents of eleven children: John H.; Anna M; Charley H; Rosa A.; Willie; Edward T; Ella E.; Ida J.; Flora M, who died in 1878; Theodore J.; and Lena E. In his agricultural pursuits the father was especially successful for he owned five hundred and sixty acres in Buffalo township and three hundred and twenty in Blue Grass township, making over eight hundred acres which were under his control. He was one of the most enterprising as well as successful men in his locality and his influence was widely felt in the township for he served most efficiently as trustee and school director and was also supervisor of the county. He resigned the heavier responsibilities of his life even before his death, many of which have been assumed most ably by his sons, Edward and Theodore. Edward and Theodore Brus, native sons of Scott county, are by their daily life and the return they win from their labor upholding the reputation for prosperity enjoyed by this section of Iowa. With their sister Miss Ella they live upon the extensive tract of five hundred and sixty acres in Buffalo township. Keeping the example of their father before them, they have continued in his footsteps, enlarge the number of improvements upon the farm and increased its cultivation, so that it is one of the excellent farms of the whole township, no only in size but in the fertility of the soil. Both are members of Banner Lodge, No. 16, Knights of Pythias, and Theodore is also connected with the Modern Woodmen. They are democrats in their political sympathies, interested in local affairs, though not aspirants of official preferment. Edward, however, has been a member of the school board for a number of years. ~~~~~~*~~~~~~ Elaine Rathmann ACC Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project List Adm: *IA-CIVIL-WAR *IA-DANES