BIO: Franklin P. Brehm, 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 LX.

                       WEST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

575  WEST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

  FRANKLIN PIERCE BREHM, manufacturer, Plainfield, was born September 
20, 1853, in Frankford Township, this county, where his father, Henry 
Brehm, still resides.  Our subject followed farming until he was 
twenty-one years of age, when he began learning coach-making under 
George Strohm, of Plainfield, this county, completing his 
apprenticeship in three years, and then worked four years for Mr. 
Strohm.  He located at Good Hope, this township, in 1880, and 
established a general coach house, which he continued until he built 
his present large and commodious establishment in the fall of 1885, 
into which he moved in the first week of December following.  He has a 
large three-story

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building, 45x60 feet, well fitted up, where he carries on a very 
extensive business, manufacturing buggies, carriages, spring wagons, 
sleights, etc., employing from nine to twelve hands.  His goods have an 
excellent reputation, and besides supplying the home demand, he has 
quite a large shipping trade throughout the East and West.  In addition 
to his business property, Mr. Brehm has built himself a very handsome 
residence not far from the station.  He married, February 7, 1872, Miss 
Katie A. Beidlow, and has two children:  Bessie Maude and Harry LeRoy.  
Mr. Brehm is an enterprising business man and an upright and useful 
citizen.  He is a member of the Lutheran Church, and has been for seven 
years superintendent in the Sabbath-school at Plainfield.  In politics 
he is a Democrat.