Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Brumbaugh, W. E. April 25, 1896 - 
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Source: History of Blair County, PA, Vol. II, 1931
Author: Tarring Davis

  W. E. BRUMBAUGH, owner and manager of the general 
insurance and automobile financing concern of W. E. 
Brumbaugh & Company, of Altoona, was born at Clover Creek, 
Pa., April 25, 1896, a son of Ira and Margaret (Ford) 
Brumbaugh, both natives of the same community, the former of 
whom has been a livestock dealer at Martinsburg, Pa., for 
many years.  The other children of this family are: Agnes, 
Roy, Carl, Dorothy, and Milton.  W. E. Brumbaugh attended 
the Clover Creek common schools and the Martinsburg High 
School, graduating from the latter in 1914. For a time, he 
studied at Juniata College and then entered the employ of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad as relief agent on the Middle 
Division.  In July, 1917, he enlisted in the 110th Infantry, 
28th Division, for service in the World War and was later 
transferred to the 413th Telegraph Battalion, Signal Corps, 
with the rank of sergeant.  He served in France from 
January, 1918, to May, 1919.  Following his discharge, he 
became associated with the Insurance Management Corporation, 
of Huntingdon, Pa., spending three years with that company 
in the coal states of the Middle West.  For a  year and a 
half, he was associated with the insurance house of H. H. 
Campbell Company, of Pittsburgh, leaving that concern to 
establish his present business at Altoona.  He is a member 
of the various Masonic bodies, the Shrine, Knights of 
Pythias, Kiwanis Club, Chamber of Commerce, and American 
Legion.  Mr. Brumbaugh took for his wife, Nancy Rhodes, of 
Roaring Spring, Pa.

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