Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Brant, Samuel Stettle September 3, 1866 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

  SAMUEL STETTLE BRANT, the son of Washington R. and Sarah 
(Stettle) Brant, was born September 3, 1866, in Limerick 
township, Montgomery county.

  Washington R. Brant( father) was a miller for many years, 
also engaged in the produce business. He now resides on a 
farm in Limerick township, his farm adjoining that o£ his 
son, Samuel S. Brant, which is in Lower Pottsgrove township. 
He is a Democrat, and has been a school director for many 
years.

  Samuel Brant (grandfather) resided on the farm now 
occupied by his son Washington in Limerick township, which, 
however, Washington Brant has rebuilt, putting a handsome 
]ionic on the place. Samuel Brant died many years ago, and 
is buried in Limerick township. His wife was Salome (Rahn) 
Brant and died several years later than her. husband. She is 
also buried in Limerick township.

  Washington R. Brant (father) had eight children, two of 
whom, Mary and Rebecca, died very, young. The living are: 
Frank, married Helen Longacre of Pottstown, and they reside 
in Philadelphia, where he is superintendent of circulation 
of the "Worth American" newspaper; Samuel S.; Annie, 
unmarried and resides with her parents; Erwin, married 
Lizzie Geist, of Pottstown, and resides in Reading, 
Pennsylvania, he is engaged in the produce business, and is 
president of the Pasturized Milk Company of Reading; Emma 
Catharine, unmarried and resides at home; Newton Cleveland, 
assists his father on the farm.

  Samuel S. Brant attended school until he was eighteen 
years of age. He worked on his father's farm until he was 
twenty-five years of age, except one year spent in work on 
other farms. He married Miss Ella Rahn, daughter of H. G. 
and Sarah Rahn, of Lower Pottsgrove. Mr. And Mrs. Samuel 
Stettle Brant have two children Louis Bickel and Sarah Rahn 
Brant.
 
  Mr. Brant is a Democrat in politics. he started to farm 
for himself seven years ago, and now enjoys the reputation 
of being one of the most prosperous farmers in the 
neighborhood. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, and of 
the P. O. S. of A. of Pottstown.

  H. G. Rahn, father of Mrs. Brant, is a farmer in Lower 
Pottsgrove township, and has been a lifelong resident of the 
township.

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