BIOGRAPHY: Daniel Webster BRALLIER, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 235-6
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Daniel Webster BRALLIER

DANIEL WEBSTER BRALLIER, now a resident of Jackson township, and well known for 
energy, thoroughgoingness and success is a son of Rev. Samuel and Susannah 
(Good) Brallier, and was born at Belsano, Blacklick township, Cambria county, 
Pennsylvania, April 26, 1851.  The Bralliers are of French-German descent, and 
many of them in the new world have inherited the good qualities of both races.  
In this State the Bralliers were first resident in the eastern part, where 
Emanuel Brallier, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born and 
reared.  He was a shoemaker by trade and a farmer by occupation, and came to 
Belsano, this county, where he died in December, 1882, aged eighty-eight years.  
He was a member of the German Baptist church, and his son, Rev. Samuel Brallier, 
was a native of Morrison's Cove, Bedford county.  He came when young man to 
Blacklick township, but afterwards removed to Jackson township, where he passed 
the last twenty-five years of his life.  He was born September 2, 1824, followed 
farming and lumbering for a livelihood, and died October 1, 1894, just past the 
seventieth year of his age.  He became a member of the German Baptist church at 
an early age, and served acceptably and with profit in its ministry for many 
years.  He was a man of enterprise, and highly respected by all who knew him.  
His wife, Susannah (Good) Brallier, was born in East Taylor township, March 29, 
1833, and died November 19, 1887.  She was a member of the German Baptist 
church, and her father, Jacob Good, was a son of Christian Good, a large land-
owner and substantial citizen of East Taylor township.  The Goods were of German 
descent, and Jacob Good married Elizabeth Gochuer, whose father, Christian 
Gochuer, was a German Baptist and an excellent citizen.
     Daniel Webster Brallier was reared in his native township until he was 
seventeen years of age, and then removed into Jackson township, which has been 
his residence ever since.  He received his education in the public schools, and 
learned the trade of carpenter, at which he worked steadily at various places 
until 1873.  In that year he commenced his present prosperous business of 
contracting and building.  He is an excellent and skilled workman, and a man of 
energy and push, and has built a large number of houses, including the erection 
of some fine and tasteful residences.  In connection with his numerous 
contracting and building operations, he takes time to manage the fine, 
productive farm which he owns in Jackson township. Skilled as a workman, 
successful as a farmer and energetic as a business man, Mr. Brallier is 
recognized as an intelligent and useful factor in the progress of the community 
in which he resides. A strong Baptist in his religious faith, he is a member of 
the First Baptist church of Johnstown. He is a democrat in political opinion 
and, while interested, yet is not active to leadership in the field of politics. 
He has filled most of the township offices, and has been elected consecutively 
for nine years as auditor of Jackson township. On October 28, 1873, Mr. Brallier 
was united in marriage with Mollie A. Long, a daughter of John Long, a resident 
of Chambersville, Indiana county.