Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Brua, Elliott H. December 26, 1849 - 
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Source: Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911
Author: Jesse C. Sell

ELLIOTT H. BRUA, proprietor of the Cedar Grove Grist Mill, and owner of a
farm of 144 acres in Frankstown Township, Blair County, Pa., was born on a
farm adjoining his present place, December 26, 1849, and is a son of Jacob
and Elizabeth (Elliott) Brua. His parents were both natives of Blair County,
and for many years carried on farming in Frankstown Township, but he spent
his declining years in retirement at Hollidaysburg. They were members of the
Presbyterian church and were buried at the Presbyterian Cemetery at
Hollidaysburg. Jacob and Elizabeth Brua were the parents of the following
children: Elliott, Blair A.; Lynn A., president of the Citizens' National
Bank of Hollidaysburg; Mary J., wife of Dr. Robert Irwin of Hollidaysburg:
and Elizabeth B., wife of T. Irwin Smith of Hollidaysburg. Mr. Brua was
politically identified with the Republican party.
     The paternal grandparents of our subject were Daniel and Mary Brua, who
came from Lancaster County, Pa., in 1818, and the maternal grandparents were
George and Ruth Elliott, the former of Franklin County, and the latter of
Blair County.
     Elliott H. Brua was reared in his native township, where he attended the
local schools, and after spending one term in the seminary at Hollidaysburg,
engaged in farming for a short time. He later taught in the district schools
of the county for six terms, was a clerk in a store one year, and conducted a
grocery store for one year, and for the past eighteen years has farmed his
present place, which he inherited from his father. He has operated his mill
for twelve years and his father operated it from 1884 until about 1889. The
mill is supposed to be over 100 years old, as Mr. Brua has papers showing it
was here in 1813. Mr. Brua is one of the public spirited and progressive
citizens of the township. He is politically identified with the Republican
party but has never cared to hold office.

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