Biographical Sketch of Jacob C. BROWNBACK (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila- delphia, PA, 1893, pp. 832-3. "JACOB C. BROWNBACK, a leading farmer of Anselma, West Pikeland township, who was a gallant soldier during the civil war, and has been an active, enterprising and useful citizen ever since, is a descendant of the early emigrant, Garrett Brownback, and a son of Jesse and Elizabeth (Christman) Brownback. He was born in East Coventry township, Chester county, Penn- sylvania, April 3, 1840, and grew to manhood on his father's farm, re- ceiving a practical English education in the public schools of that town- ship. Soon after leaving school he engaged in farming, to which occupa- tion he had been early trained, and he has made that his principal busi- ness to the present time. In 1873 he removed to West Pikeland township, where he purchased a fine farm containing one hundred and forty acres of valuable land, all well improved and amply supplied with convenient farm buildings. Here he has resided ever since, and has been very successful in the management of his excellent farm. He is a republican in politics, and in religion he and his family are members of the German Reformed church. On August 5, 1862, at the age of twenty-two, Mr. Brownback en- listed as a private in Co. I, 6th Pennsylvania cavalry, and served con- tinuously until the close of the war, being honorably discharged at Cloud's Mill, Virginia, in June, 1865. He was a brave and gallant sol- dier, actively participating in the terrible conflicts at Sharpsburg, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spottsylvania, beside a number of other minor contests and skirmishes in different States. He was a member of that monster military organization known in history as the army of the Potomac, and was personally present in nearly all its historic engagements. "On December 15, 1868, Mr. Brownback was married to Lizzie Kimes, a daugh- ter of Samuel Kimes, a prosperous farmer of West Pikeland township. This union was blessed by the birth of four children, three sons and a daughter: Katie K., George K., Maurice K., and Jesse K., all living at home with their parents on the farm. "For additional facts concerning the history of the Brownback family, see sketches of Lewis C. Brownback, on page 555, and Garrett Elwood Brownback, on page 603, of this volume."