DR. A. J. BRUNER, who was engaged in the practice of medicine near Woodville, is a native of Tennessee, where he was born in the year 1835. He received a preliminary education in the district schools of his native place. Removing to Kentucky, he entered upon a literary course of study at the Hiawatha College. Proceeding to Keokuk, Ia., he entered the College of Physicians, graduating from the institution with honor, on the 17th of Feb., 1875, and after that date soon secured a large practice in Greene county, and lived near Woodville, where he has become the owner of a valuable property. In 1869, he married Mrs. Mary A. Slaten, a daughter of Richard and Sarah J. Spalding. He is now in Roodhouse, engaged in mercantile pursuits.