BIO:  R. William BREAM, Highland Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 452-453

R. WILLIAM BREAM, farmer, P. O. Gettysburg, was born in Cumberland Township, 
Adams Co., Penn., April 10, 1850, and is a son of ex-Sheriff Francis and 
Elizabeth (Slaybaugh) Bream, natives of this county.  His father, who was the 
first Democratic sheriff of Adams County, elected in 1842, and serving one term, 
died in the spring of 1882; his widow still survives.  Our subject was reared on 
a farm and remained with his parents until he was twenty-five years old, when he 
married.  After that event he engaged in the milling business at the Mineral 
Mills successfully for five years.  In the spring of 1882 he moved to where he 
now resides in Highland Township, here owning a farm of 110 acres.  He erected a 
large brick residence and a fine barn, and has one of the best improved places 
in the township.  December 9, 1875, he married Ida B. Weirman, who has borne him 
two children:  Maude A. and Helen R.  The parents are members of the Lutheran 
Church.  In November, 1882, Mr. Bream was elected a member of the Legislature, 
serving through 1883; has been school director and secretary of the board; and 
has filled all his public offices to the satisfaction of the community.  
Politically he is a Democrat.