BIOGRAPHY: John F. BREHM, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 236-7
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John F. BREHM

JOHN F. BREHM, a successful farmer of West Taylor township, who is largely 
engaged in market gardening, is a son of Frederick and Caroline (Rinebolt) 
Brehm, and was born at Cambria city, now Johnstown, Cambria county, 
Pennsylvania, July 8, 1855.
     Frederick Brehm was born and reared in Germany, which he left at twenty-
seven years of age to come to Cambria city, now Johnstown, where he followed his 
trade as carpenter for nine years. He then removed to a farm in West Taylor 
township, and was engaged in market and truck farming up to the time of his 
death, which occurred March 8, 1893, when he was in the sixty-ninth year of his 
age. He was a hard-working and well-respected man, who had a large circle of 
friends. He was a patriotic citizen, and served three months as a soldier in the 
Union army.
     Mr. Brehm married Caroline Rinebolt, of Ben's Creek, now in the sixty-sixth 
year of her age, and a resident of Johnstown, where she is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church. Her father, George Rinebolt, was a native of 
Germany, and a resident of this county for many years before his death, in 1886, 
at eighty-two years of age. He was a German Lutheran; served as an engineer for 
the Cambria Iron company for many years, and married Catherine Shainhair, who is 
well known all over the city of Johnstown, where she still resides, a very 
active and well-preserved woman for the weight of her eighty-five years.
     John F. Brehm grew to manhood in West Taylor township, on the farm, where 
he was carefully trained in all farming employments. He received his education 
in the common schools, and then turned his attention to farming and market 
gardening, in which lines of labor he has met with success. He owns a good farm 
of thirty-six acres, on which he has resided continuously since 1877. Mr. Brehm 
is in his political views a republican, and while a strong advocate of the 
principles of his party, is never an aspirant for party favors, his time and 
energies being given rather to his daily routine of farming and market 
gardening.
     On December 21, 1876, Mr. Brehm wedded Mahala Rogers. To this union were 
born seven children, three sons and four daughters: Annie M.; Charles J.; 
Earnest; Gertrude E.; Wilder; Florence Helen; and Margaret F.
     Mrs. Brehm is a daughter of David Rogers, and a granddaughter of David 
Rogers, Sr., who was a native of Scotland, and a Seven-Day Baptist, and settled 
in Somerset county, where he reared a large family, and died at Shade Furnace, 
aged ninety-eight years.
     David Rogers came from Somerset to Cambria county when a young man, and is 
now a resident of West Taylor township. His wife was formerly Mary Berkebile, 
who is now in the fifty-fourth year of her age, and is a daughter of Jesse 
Berkebile, who was of German descent, and died in his native county of Somerset 
in 1867, when in the sixty-eighth year of his age.