Jacob Brenneman, b: 1866

^{1922 USSR formed by Soviet states}
^{1939 - 1945 World War II}
^{1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)}
^{1950 Korean War begins}
^{1964 - 1973 Vietnam War}

^{1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy}
^{1899 Boer War begins}
^{1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight}
^{1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage}
^{1914 - 1918 World War I}

^{1830 French Revolution}
^{1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne}
^{1854 Crimean War with Russia}
^{1869 Opening of Suez Canal}
^{1871 Franco - Prussian War}



				^{Christian Brenneman}^{b.1841 Holmes Co., Ohio d.1900 Kalona, Iowa}

			^{Jacob Brenneman}^{b.1866 Kalona, Iowa d.1932}

				^{Catherine Slaubaugh}^{b.1839 Somerset C, Pennsylvania d.1915}





			^{Lydia Zimmerman}^{b.1876 Iowa Co., Iowa d.1959 Iowa at the Mercy Hospit}