Edmund Bringer Memoir - Brookens Library
Edmund Bringer Memoir - Brookens Library
Edmund Bringer Memoir - Brookens Library
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<strong>Edmund</strong> A. <strong>Bringer</strong> 20<br />
A: Oh yes. (lau&ter) I mnt up there to see him and he was just as<br />
agile and intelligent and. . . . at 102 as he was I guess abut sixty.<br />
He ~s a. . . . quite a character. He knew General Nathan Bedford Forrest.<br />
He--he'd--General Nathan Bedford Forrest had been at his father's hm.<br />
Merriwather 's father hilt and established a railroad in the South.<br />
krriwather had been an ambassador to some little country in the East<br />
and he has traveled quite a lot. He wrote several books also.<br />
Q: I33 you know ~&ch book he wrote or--she's got . . .<br />
A: Yes it's here around here someplace. It's autographed by Merri~ather.<br />
And then she's got books that are autographed by a guy by the-mn by the<br />
mane of Eisenschjrmnel that wrote about the Civil %r. And Bruce Catton<br />
she's got sane of his books that are autographed, and there's several of<br />
them in there that are autographed by other authors.<br />
Q: ks she--when you first ~t her ms she interested in the Civil &r<br />
then?<br />
A: No! &--no w just had a good time hen we ere first married you<br />
haw I wan . . .<br />
Q: &11 I know kt (chuckles) she liked history though.<br />
A: Yes she liked history she did. Did a lot of reading. Gee whiz she<br />
read all the thl She'd read a book a day. And every place w'd go why<br />
she 'd buy books and we've got . . .<br />
Q: Tats of books. (chuckles)<br />
A: History books and w've got books about. . . . oh practically--all<br />
kinds of houses and American history and everything. They're just all<br />
over the house here. And then she liked mysteries too, she bought up all<br />
the mysteries she could find and read them and was still reading them.<br />
Q: k t kind of things did you guys do for fim when you first got married,<br />
like go to dances or . . .<br />
A: (31 E wnt to dances and shows and WE wnt to the brld's Fair and . . .<br />
Q: You mt to the krld's Fair?<br />
A: Yes we ent to the Chicago brld's Fair . . .<br />
Q: b you remmber anything abut that?<br />
A: No it was . , .<br />
Q: Very interesting?<br />
A: Aw it was. . . . it was all right ht it ws just a big--that one<br />
was--that was in 1930 something and it was mre of a big circus and<br />
carnival. Zhey didn't go in too mch for. . . . oh they did have a lot<br />
of displays and everything up there but it ma nothing like these new<br />
ones are, it was mre entertabrent, they had more doggone entertaimmt<br />
there.<br />
<strong>Edmund</strong> <strong>Bringer</strong> <strong>Memoir</strong> - Archives/Special Collections - Norris L <strong>Brookens</strong> <strong>Library</strong> - University of Illinois at Springfield - UIS
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