Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Brumbaugh, Prof. H. Atlee October 10, 1874 - 
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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

PROF. H. ATLEE BRUMBAUGH, principal of the Taylor Township, Blair County,
High School and supervising principal of the public schools of Taylor
Township, is one of the foremost educators of Blair County, and is a man of
culture, high aims and great executive ability. He was born in South Woodbury
Township, Bedford County, Pa., October 10, 1874, and is a son of John F. and
Maggie (Imler) Brumbaugh, both of whom were also born in Bedford County.
     H. Atlee Brumbaugh enjoyed both common school and collegiate advantages,
providing for the latter by teaching school in his native township. He is a
graduate of Juniata College, at Huntingdon, Pa. He has effectively filled
numerous positions of responsibility as an educator, serving as assistant
principal of the public schools at Roaring Spring; for one year as principal
of the Juniata High School; for two years as principal of the Logan School,
at Juniata; for one year as principal of the Llyswen School at South Altoona,
and in September, 1909, assumed his present duties. He is essentially an
educator and can look back with considerable satisfaction to what he has
accomplished along this line. He has other talents also and has become well
known as an author, a number of published books standing to his credit, while
his magazine and newspaper contributions are numerous. He has a talent for
versifying and, although he does not call himself a poet, his many friends
call attention to productions that seem to prove it. Among his published
works are the following: Life in Verse, Life in Song, and Tom Marx and Poems.
He is a regular contributor to The Inglenook, which is a magazine of merit
published by the Brethren Publishing House, at Elgin, Ill., and also to the
Sunday-school papers of the same church, of which he is a member. The
following is a selection from his writings, which brings comfort and
happiness to all who read and remember it.

                          SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS.

                    Our days sometimes are darkened
                      By clouds that gather low;
                    Some clouds in life must gather,
                      And rainy winds must blow;
                    The nightly shadows whisper
                      "We will not long remain;"
                    So never be discouraged,
                      The sun will shine again.

                    Your light will scatter shadows;
                      This lesson you must heed 
                    You heal a heart that's wounded,
                      Or help to make it bleed;
                    The winds are softly lisping  
                      "A smile will shine in rain," 
                    The smile that you give daily
                      Will come to you again.

     Prof. Brumbaugh married Miss Lydia Ebersole, of Bedford County, a
daughter of Daniel C. Ebersole of South Woodbury Township, and they have two
children: Mabel A. and Harold C. As a citizen he is held in very high esteem
at Roaring Spring, which is his place of residence. His friends have put him
forward as a candidate for the superintendency of the public schools of Blair
County.

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