Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Brode, Harry C. 1873 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Banja http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00004.html#0000757 July 23, 2025, 10:55 am Source: History of Blair County, PA, Vol. II, 1931 Author: Tarring Davis HARRY C. BRODE, superintendent of the Blair County Home, was born in East Freedom Township, Blair County, Pa., in 1873. Joseph C. Brode, his father, was born in Bedford County, Pa., and was an engineer with the Pennsylvania Railroad until his retirement. He died in 1928 and his wife, Rebecca (Benton) Brode, in 1903, she having been born in Blair County. Harry C. Brode was educated in the public schools of Altoona, Pa., and thereafter worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad for ten years. In 1902, he became a traveling salesman for the Armour Packing Company in the central part of the state and was so employed over a period of twenty-five years. He resigned in the autumn of 1927 to accept the stewardship of the Blair County Home, to the superintendency of which he was elected in April, 1928. He has entire charge of the home, including its farm work, and his wife is matron of the institution. He is a member of the Independent Order of Foresters, the Grange, United Commercial Travelers, and Kiwanis Club. He is a member of the Third Presbyterian Church. He was married October 24, 1894, to Annie Stoke, of Blair County, and they have two daughters, Rebecca May and Norma Gertrude, the former a graduate nurse of Philadelphia and the latter a student in the Hollidaysburg schools. This file has been created by a form at http://www.usgwarchives.net/pafiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb