Bedford County PA Archives Biographies.....Breneman, Michael B., M.D.
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MICHAEL B. BRENEMAN, M.D., a prominent physician and surgeon 
of Saxton, Pa., is also proprietor of the leading drug store 
in this town.  He was born May 22, 1838, in Porter township, 
Huntingdon County, Pa., a son of Isaac and Mary (McDivitt) 
Breneman.  His parents were both lifelong residents of this 
State and for many years prosperous members of the farming 
community at Porter township.  The father came from 
substantial German stock, and the mother was of Scotch-Irish 
ancestry, both being descended from early settlers of 
Southern Pennsylvania.
  Michael B. Breneman obtained his early education in the 
common schools of Porter township, and made further advances 
in learning at the Williamsburg Academy and the Cassville 
Seminary, both institutions of learning well-known in 
Pennsylvania.  He subsequently taught school for nine 
successive winters, and with the money thus earned continued 
his studies, paying his own expenses during the time.  In 
August, 1862, giving up for a while his personal ambitions, 
he enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth 
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, which became a part of the 
Army of the Potomac.  At the battle of Antietam he was 
wounded by a minie ball in the left leg, and ten days later 
was brought to his home in Huntingdon County.  The following 
winter, although forced to use crutches, he taught school.  
At the close of the term he entered the Cotton Factory 
Hospital at Harrisburg for treatment, and two weeks later, 
on April 6, 1863, he was honorably discharged from the 
service.  For several years thereafter he continued his life 
as a teacher, but in the meantime took up the study of 
medicine, and in 1870 was graduated from the Jefferson 
Medical College, Philadelphia.  Dr. Breneman began the 
practice of his profession at Morris township in his native 
county, remaining there until 1872, and during the next 
seven years being located in the neighboring town of Dudley. 
 In the spring of 1879 he settled in Saxton, Bedford County, 
where he has met with well-deserved success in his 
professional labors, and has built up an extended reputation 
as a conscientious and skilful practitioner.
  On September 5, 1869, Dr. Breneman married Anna M. 
Shaffer, of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.  Of the 
children born of their union five are living, namely: Paul 
B., an instructor in the State College at Centre County, 
Pennsylvania; William E., a physician, in partnership with 
his father; M. Blanche, a student at Irvin College in 
Mechanicsburg, Pa.; Glen S.; and Robert M.  Fraternally, the 
Doctor is a member of the Odd Fellows and of the Masonic 
Order, having been made a Mason at Huntingdon and an Odd 
Fellow at Coalmont, Pa.  He is also a comrade of Hefner 
Post, No. 166, G.A.R.; and he belongs to the Reformed 
church.


Source: Bedford Biographical Review, 1899, Bedford Co., Pa