BIO: H. E. Brechbill, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER LVIII.

   SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS.

549  SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP.

  H. E. BRECHBILL, farmer, Boiling Springs, was born at Boiling 
Springs, Cumberland Co., Penn., April 29, 1836, the eldest son in the 
family of five children of Philip and Clarissa (Gitt) Brechbill.  The 
former, a native of Lebanon County, Penn., was of German origin, and 
the latter, born in Adams County, Penn., was of English de-

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scent.  Philip Brechbill, who spent most of his life in Cumberland 
County, was a farmer by occupation and one of the first residents of 
what is now known as the village of Boiling Springs.  Our subject was 
reared on the farm and received a good English education.  In early 
life he clerked in a dry goods store, and also farmed for a time in 
South Middleton Township; in later years he engaged in farming and 
milling, and was at one time a merchant.  Mr. Brechbill has been 
financially successful, and at the present time is owner of a flouring-
mill in South Middleton Township and of a farm and considerable real 
estate in Boiling Springs, where he still resides.  He was united in 
marriage, in 1866, with Martha J., daughter of Joseph and Mary Brandt, 
a native of Pennsylvania and of German and Irish origin.  They have two 
children:  Philip, in school, and Mary Emily Brandt, attending the 
female seminary at Hagerstown, Md.  Mr. and Mrs. Brechbill are 
consistent members of the Lutheran Church, in which he has been elder 
and Sabbath-school superintendent since its organization, in 1873, and 
was one of the prime movers in organizing the society, taking an active 
interest in the church at Boiling Springs.  He is a Republican in 
politics.  He is of a literary turn of mind, and supplies himself and 
family with the best literature of the day.