COL. L. BREMOND.
The subject of this sketch was born at Norfolk, Virginia, January 1,
1827, a son of Dr. Dennis Bremond and Eliza Bremond, nee Johnson,
both now deceased. He married, at Charlotteville, Virginia, November
18, 1852, Martha Sheperd, who was born in Richmond, Virginia, the
daughter of the late Samuel Sheperd, long an honored resident of Richmond,
State printer there.
Colonel Bremond attended school in Norfolk until fifteen years of age,
when he left the Norfolk Academy to begin a business life. He clerked
for W. H. Garnett & Co. for about eighteen months, then for a time
was with Thos. G. Broughton & Co., of the Norfolk Herald. After
that he was in the drug business with John A. Ludlow and Ludlow &
Gomley. He then was with the Virginia Central Railroad, which he left
to accept position with the Covington & Ohio Railroad. In 1861 he
was appointed collector of tax in kind for the Confederate States Government,
so serving till the close of the war. Since that time he has
been in the employ of the Chesapeake & Ohio R. R., with which he still
continues, agent at Newport News.
