BIO: Daniel BRINDLE, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 9.
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DANIEL BRINDLE
Baree, Huntingdon Co., Pa.

With Stowe-Fuller Co.:  He was born at Spruce Creek, June 6, 1894, a son of 
Harry Brindle, who died in 1899, who was married to Naomi Reeder; she remarried 
to G. B. McCarty, a blacksmith with the signal corps, Penna. R.R.  Daniel 
Brindle's father died when he was five years of age.  He attended the Spruce 
Creek schools for one year, and the Barree schoools for ten years; he has been 
with the Stowe-Fuller Refractories Co. for twelve years.  He was a volunteer in 
the World War; enlisted at Huntingdon, Pa., in 1917; was sent to Hancock, Ga.; 
assigned to Co. F. 8th Reg., 28th Division, for eight months, was then assigned 
to Co. F, 112th Division; went to Camp Upton, Long Island, N.Y.; there for four 
months; thence to Aberdeen, Md., proving ground; there for eleven months; was a 
teamster.  Discharged at Aberdeen, Md., with a service of twenty-three months.  
He is a member of the W. P. Spyker American Legion Post, No. 580, Alexandria, 
Pa.,  Votes the Republican ticket.  He has six brothers: Harry, in United States 
Service; Alfred, married to Mary Hutchison; Raymond, Petersburg, Pa., married to 
Rebecca Crawford; Rolland and Chester are at home; Donald attends school at 
Alexandria; one brother, Elmer, was killed in France, in the World War; was 
wounded and died in a hospital; body was brought home for burial.  Mr. Brindle 
has four sisters:  Ethel, married to Milton Gensimer, Union Furnace; Mary, to 
Wm. Rye, Tyrone, Pa.; Leona, to Wm. C. Hoffmaster, Barree, Pa.; Isabel, attends 
school at Alexandria High School.