William Robinson Bronaugh was born in 1883, in the state of Kentucky and came to the Carrington, North Dakota, area as a young man where he farmed. On January 11, 1915, he married Mangne Berglund of Nordmore Township.

They had two children: James Alfred, born October 15, 1915, and Valda, born June 1918, and died December 25, 1919. Mangne died on February 8, 1924. He later married Mrs. Footitt of Carrington and they finished raising her four children: Pearl, John, Marjorie and Helen. After her death he married Albertine Beardsley of Glenfield.

In 1931, William Bronaugh moved to Glenfield where he managed a hardware store. After it was destroyed by fire, he began his own hardware company, Bronaugh Hardware, which he operated until his death on August 16, 1947.

James A. Bronaugh graduated from Glenfield High School in 1934. Following graduation, he worked for Peavey Elevator Company, Glenfield, and Bethlehem Steel Company, Seattle.

In 1940, he enlisted in the U. S. Coast Guard where he served during World War II until 1946; he was in the European-African Middle East and the Asiatic-Pacific theatres of the war.

On January 16, 1944, he married Doris Sharpe of Glenfield. Born on December 7, 1917, to Andrew and Janna Sharpe of Shepard, she was raised in Glenfield, N. D: A graduate of Jamestown College, she taught school in North Dakota and South Dakota.

After his father's death, James operated the Bronaugh Hardware until it was destroyed by fire in 1957. At that time they moved to Carrington where they operated Bronaugh Construction Company. James died on December 26, 1980, in Fargo, North Dakota, and Doris died on February 21, 1983, at Carrington.

They had four children: Jean, James W., Thomas and Joni. Jean and her husband Richard Hilber live in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota, with their daughters Kendra and Susan. Jim and his wife, Kathie, live in Omaha, Nebraska; they have three children, Jenny, Andrew and Rachel. Tom lives in Carrington, North Dakota, with his wife, Candy, and their children Preston, Joel and Jackie. And Joni and her husband, Bob Bergan, have two sons, Tommy and Chad, and live in Valley City, North Dakota.

Source:  Glenfield History 1886 €“ 1987 Page 180