Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Brubaker, Jacob June 2, 1860 - 
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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

JACOB BRUBAKER, who is engaged in general farming and stock raising, on a
farm of 208 acres in Frankstown Township, was born June 2, 1860, in Allegheny
Township, Blair County, Pa., and is a son of Ephraim and Lydia (Hart)
Brubaker. They were both born in Blair County, Pa., and spent their lives
here, their fathers being Jacob Brubaker and Israel Hart. During his early
life Ephraim Brubaker followed carpentering for a time, but later became a
farmer. He was a Democrat. Both parents are deceased and were buried at
Carson Valley, Allegheny Township. They belonged to the Lutheran church. The
following children were born to Ephraim and Lydia Brubaker: Emanuel; Samuel;
Bertha, who is the wife of A. W. Wilt; Marjory, who is the wife of Patrick
Risbane; Ellis; John; Catherine, who is the wife of Harry Stafford; Jane, who
is the wife of Silas Closson; Lucinda, who is the wife of John Plowman; Jacob,
David and Emma, who is the wife of Chris Selwitz.
     Jacob Brubaker attended the common schools of the township until fifteen
years of age, and since that time has been engaged in agricultural pursuits.
In April, 1906, he purchased his present farm from the widows of Peter and
Calvin Smith, but the land was originally the property of the Stiffler
family. Mr. Brubaker is one of the enterprising and public spirited farmers
of the township, and carries on farming in a general way, and raises just
sufficient stock for his own use.
     On December, 1878, Mr. Brubaker married Miss Catherine Plowman, who is a
daughter of William and Francana (Wilt) Plowman, who were prominent farmers of
Blair County, and the parents of the following children: Mary, who married
David Clawson; David; Jane, who married John Clawson; Anna, who is the wife
of Ellis Brubaker; Marshall; John; Amanda, who married John Brubaker; Susan,
who married Jacob Stoner; and Clara, who married William Wombaugher.
     The following children were born to our subject and his wife: Charles,
who is a farmer of Allegheny Township, married Martha Sell; Laura, who is
deceased, was the wife of James Hover, also deceased, and they had one
daughter, Effie, whom our subject is rearing; Ellis, deceased; Frank, who is
an employe of the P.R.R. Co., married Pearl Benner; George, who is also an
employe of the P.R.R. Co., married Hattie Hoover, and they have one son,
Earnest; Mary, deceased; Rosa, who is the wife of Christ Haller, and they
have one son, Irwin; Gertrude; Myrtle, who is the wife of Warren Wertz, and
they have one daughter, Lilly; and Harry, Blair, Brook, Ord, Ida, and Ella.
Mr. Brubaker is politically a Republican, and has served as a school director
for seven years. The religious connection of the family is with the Brethren
church.

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