[184-125] GEORGE BOYER BRUMBAUGH, b July 12, 1834; s Jacob and Rachel (Boyer) Brumbaugh [184-29]; m Apr. 17, 1855, MARTHA PEIGHTAL GROVE, d Apr. 17, 1832; d Nov. 15, 1908 dau Daniel and Mary (Peightal) Grove. [B. F. 519.]
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“George Boyer Brumbaugh was born July 12, 1834 in Penn Twp., Huntingdon Co., Pa. He worked on his father’s farm (the old Brumbaugh homestead) and attended public school at the ‘Bowers school’; for one term went to a subscription school at Marklesburg to work up some branches not taught in the public school. He began teaching in 1849 and taught one term at the ‘Summers schoolhouse,’ one term at the ‘Mill schoolhouse,’ two terms at the ‘Corner schoolhouse,’ and two terms at the ‘Peightal schoolhouse.’
“He was elected to the ministry of the German Baptist Brethren Church in 1863, while he resided on a farm on the banks of the Raystown branch of the Juniata River. At the request of his brother, Andrew Boelus Brumbaugh, M.D., who then lived in Marklesburg, he moved to that village in 1865, and engaged in general mercantile business in connection with his ministry. He is well known and is colloquially distinguished from his cousin George Brumbaugh, another minister in the James Creek Congregation of the Church of the Brethren (G. B. B. Ch.), as ‘talking George,’ which phrase indicates his natural eloquence and pulpit power.
“He was appointed by the court to make the survey of the original village of Marklesburg; and later made the survey for the extension of the boundaries of this borough; was borough engineer for many years; was a member of its first council and also of many subsequent councils. He served as burgess of the Borough, and also as a member of its school board. He was postmaster of James Creek (Marklesburg P. O.), Huntingdon, Pa., for twenty-four years, and at one time owned more acres of land than any other resident of Penn Twp. In his later years he retired from mercantile business and has ie to his early love—the farm—living near the borough limit of Marklesburg, Pa.’ [B. F. 519.