[184-126] DR. ANDREW BOELUS BRUMBAUGH, b Aug. 9, 1836; d Jan. 27, 1908, s Jacob and Rachel (Boyer) Brumbaugh [184-29]; m Oct. 11, 1859, MARIA BAER FRANK, 5d Feb. 10, 1840; dau Jacob and Elizabeth B. (Baer) Frank. Physician, editor and medical lecturer. [B. F. £21.]
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“Andrew Boelus Brumbaugh, M.D., was born August 9, 1836, upon the old homestead farm in Penn Twp., Huntingdon Co., Pa. His education was begun in a subscription school prior to the establishment of an organized system of public education in Pennsylvania, and continued in the public schools, after which he taught nine years. He attended a select school (‘Academia’) near Newport, Perry Co., Pa., and Millersville State Normal School. While working upon his father’s farm and at the carpenter’s bench, he studied some of the higher branches, ever striving to better equip himself— ‘Life is real, life is earnest,’ was often repeated by him to his son, and others—these words explaining his constant activity in bettering conditions about him. —
“His early training was academic, not collegiate, but by private study and earnest application he became a thorough master of the classics and sciences, thus fitting himself for that large sphere in life to which ambition and destiny led him.
“October 11, 1859, he married Maria Baer Frank on the Frank farm in Penn Twp., Huntingdon Co., Pa. Her parents came from Lancaster Co., Pa., where the Brubakers, Baers and Franks have a long and interesting Mennonite ancestry.
“Andrew decided to make the practice of medicine his life work. While earning a living for his small family by working at the carpenter trade, with anatomy and other medical books open before him upon the work bench, he laid deeply the foundation for his later medical and surgical success. He also trained both hands, and became ambidextrous for his later surgical and other professional work. He matriculated at the Medical Dept. of the University of Pennsylvania, Oct., 1863, and graduated (M.D.) in the class of 1866, his thesis being ‘The True System of Medical Electicism.’ Prior to graduation he had acquired a considerable medical practice in Penn Twp., and at Marklesburg, as shown by his diaries for 62 and '63. His entry for Jan. 27, 1865, 48 yrs. before his death, shows his constant dependence upon the Heavenly Father: ‘Had four patients today *. May the Lord, in whom we trust, and on whom we rely, prosper and assist me and give me wisdom, that I may succeed fully in my calling. Amen!’
“October 12, 1864, the family moved from the homestead farm to Marklesburg. In April, 1866, he located in the office of the late Dr. Luden, in Huntingdon, Pa., and continued in active practice in this town until his death.” [B. F. 521.]