BIO:  JACOB N. BRUBAKER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 633-634
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    JACOB N. BRUBAKER, who resides about two miles out of Carlisle in the
  township of North Middleton, on a well-cultivated farm of forty acres, is a
  son of David O. Brubaker, grandson of David Brubaker, and a great-grandson of
  John Brubaker, who came to America from Germany in 1710. David Brubaker, the
  grandfather, was a farmer, and was a very worthy and reliable man.
    
    David O. Brubaker, the father of Jacob N., was born in Millersburg, Pa.,
  Feb. 8, 1805, and there received an excellent common school education. When a
  young man he went to Lancaster county, and later learned the trade of tanning
  at Millersburg, Pa. Returning to Lancaster county he followed that trade
  until the close of the war. In 1864 he purchased a farm of 140 acres in Rapho
  township, Lancaster Co., Pa., which he sold about 1869, later purchasing a
  farm of 100 acres in North Middleton township, Cumberland Co., Pa., which he
  sold to his son. He then returned to Lancaster county, where he died March
  12, 1888. Mr. Brubaker married Elizabeth Nauman, of Lancaster county, Pa.,
  and their children were: Mary, Elizabeth, David, Caroline, Susan, Samuel and
  Jacob N. The mother of these died in 1843. Mr. Brubaker married (second) a
  Miss Bishop, of Lancaster county, Pa., they becoming the parents of one
  child, Isaac B. Mrs. Brubaker died in Lancaster county, aged seventy-one
  years.
    
    Jacob N. Brubaker was born February 26, 1840, in Lancaster county, and
  there at-tended the common schools, in the intervals working for his father
  until he was twenty-seven years of age. He then removed to Cumberland county,
  and located in North Middleton township, on a farm about a mile north of where
  he now resides. In 1880 he purchased his present farm, upon which he built a
  barn, besides making many other improvements.
    
    On March 5, 1875, Jacob N. Brubaker married Mary Elizabeth Wert, a daughter
  of Jacob and Margaret (Brought) Wert, of North Middleton township. The
  following named children were born to this union: Emma Jane, born Dec. 4,
  1876, who married Charles M. Bear, a son of Levi and Elizabeth Bear, of
  Harrisburg, where she resides, they having one child, Mary E.; Carrie May,
  born July 27, 1881, at home; and David J., born July 20, 1886, now attending
  commercial college at Carlisle.
    
    Mr. Brubaker is in politics Republican. His wife belongs to the Lutheran
  Church of Carlisle Springs, and both are very highly respected, and excellent
  representatives of the agricultural class of their county.