BIO:  William BREAM, Butler 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, Page 382

WILLIAM BREAM, farmer, P.O. Bigler, is a son of Jacob and Catherine (Fleager) 
Bream, the former a native of this county, the latter of York County, Penn.  
Jacob was a son of Henry Bream, who was a native of Germany and immigrated to 
America with his family many years ago, settling in what is now Tyrone Township, 
this county, where the family has made a permanent home.  The elder Bream was a 
member of the Lutheran Church, and had three sons and six daughters.  Jacob 
Bream was born in Tyrone Township, in which his life was passed.  He was a well-
to-do farmer and highly respected.  He and his estimable wife were exemplary 
members of the Lutheran Church and had a family of ten children:  Susan, Joseph, 
Margaret, Jacob, Daniel, Catherine, John, Samuel, Matilda and William.  Mr. 
Bream died in 1835; Mrs. Bream died subsequently.  William Bream, our subject, 
was reared to farm pursuits, and at the age of eighteen years commenced life on 
his own account, first as a laborer by the day and month.  In 1840 he married 
Harriet Myers, and purchased and settled upon land where he has since resided.  
His farm comprises 160 acres of highly improved land, and in addition he also 
owns a village property in Middletown, the whole of which has been made by his 
own efforts.  He has held various local offices, viz.: Assessor, school 
director, etc.  To Mr. and Mrs. Bream have been born twelve children:  
Catherine, Matilda (who died November 29, 1862, aged eighteen years, four months 
and twenty-seven days), Samuel, William E., Mary, Susanna M., Alice, John, 
Hannah, Anna, Ida and Henry, the last two of whom died in infancy.  Mr. Bream 
and wife and family are members of the Lutheran Church, and active workers in 
the same.  He is a strong adherent of the principles of Republicanism.