[184-121] HENRY BOYER BRUMBAUGH, b Apr. 1, 1836; d Jan. 28, 1919; s John and Catherime (Boyer) Brumbaugh [184-28]; m Sept. 20, 1860, SUSAN FINK PEIGHTAL, b Oct. 1, 1841; d Jan. 22, 1904; dau Isaac and Elizabeth (Fink) Peightal. Lived at Huntingdon, Pa.
Children (2):
“Henry Boyer Brumbaugh was born Apr. 1, 1836, in Penn Twp., Huntingdon Co., Pa. He spent his boyhood days on the farm along the Raystown Branch of the Juniata River; attended the publie schools and Williamsburg Academy, and the Cassville Seminary, and studied Greek, ete., at Juniata College; he farmed for a number of years and feels that the work was successful and congenial; taught nine years in the public schools of Huntingdon Co.; was baptized into the German Baptist Brethren Church June 15, 1856; was called to the ministry of this denomination June 24, 1864, and preached his first sermon from John x1:25, on Aug. 14, 1864. In 1889 he was ordained elder and has since been in charge of the Huntingdon Church of the Brethren.
“In 1869 Henry Boyer Brumbaugh and his brother, John Royer Brumbaugh, were led to leave the farm and go to ‘town’ to begin the publication of a religious paper along certain distinct lines, and for which they and their advisers felt there was a distinct need. From their residence in Marklesburg, Pa., to the present, little can be said of the activities, sacrifices, and devotions of the one which does not apply to the other of these Brumbaugh Bros.” [B. F. 556.]