FAIRFIELD COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: BRUMBAUGH - ZERKLE - APT - MASON (1896)
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NOAH BRUMBAUGH, a representative farmer and citizen of Fulton County, is a
native of Fairfield County, Ohio, and was born March 16, 1834. His parents
were Isaac and Catherine (Zerkle) Brumbaugh. The father was born in West
Virginia in 1803, and died at the home of the subject of this sketch, in this
county, in 1884. He was a son of David Brumbaugh, who was of German parentage.
Mr. Brumbaugh's mother was born in Old Virginia. She bore her husband twelve
children, of whom five are now living. The home of the family was in Fairfield
County, Ohio. The father was a farmer by occupation and was a highly respected
citizen. Noah Brumbaugh's youth was spent on the farm and farming has been his
main pursuit. In youth his educational advantages were very poor, but through
the avenues of books and papers he has become well informed on many subjects
of general interest, and no man stands a warmer friend of education than does
Mr. Brumbaugh. He remained under the parental roof until he was nineteen years
old. Learning the carriage-maker's trade, he followed the same for about eight
years, with the exception of the time he has been a tiller of the soil. At
farming he has been very successful. He came to Fulton County in 1864, and
located on his present farm near Kewanna. Mr. Brumbaugh and Maria Apt were
united in marriage in 1862, in Fairfield County, Ohio, where she was born.
Unto the union the following children have been born: Cora, once a teacher,
now wife of William Mason, of Kewanna; Prof. Jesse F., graduate of De Pauw
university, now principal of Brown's Valley, Minn., schools; Orpha Many,
graduate of De Pauw university, now teaching; Nevada, teacher; David, and
Gertrude. Mr. and Mrs. Brumbaugh are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and enjoy the esteem of a wide circle of friends.


From:  Pictorial History of America, The Fulton County Edition [Fulton County,
Indiana], by Elia Peattie, published in 1896



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