Sullivan-Bradford County PA Archives Biographies.....BRENCHLEY, James L. 1864 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
      JAMES L. BRENCHLEY. - This well-known farmer and lumberman of Shunk, Fox
  township, Sullivan county, is a native of Bradford county, this state, having
  been born at the latter place November 15, 1864. His parents are George and
  Lydia (Loomis) Brenchley, now residing in Fox township. The mother is a native
  of Bradford county and a daughter of James Loomis, of the latter place. The
  father was a native of Fox township, his parents coming to this country and
  locating in that township before 1840. George Brenchley was twice married - his
  first wife being a Miss Weed, by whom he had two children, Abraham and John, the
  latter dying at the age of twenty-four years. After the death of his wife he was
  again united in matrimony to Miss Lydia Loomis. To them were born the following
  children: Minnie, the wife of Guy Fuller, of Springfield, Pennsylvania; James,
  the subject of these memoirs; Frank, who married Mattie Leonard and is living at
  home engaged in lumbering; Maggie, the wife of Emery Tellison, of Smithfield,
  this state; Maud, Walter and Wallace, the latter three living at home.
  
      When James L. Brenchley was a child of nine years his parents came to
  Sullivan county, settling in Fox township. Here he attended the common schools,
  receiving such education as could be obtained from them until he reached his
  eighteenth year; at this age he began to work for himself, employed in the
  extensive lumber tracts of that region. He afterward bought a farm of
  seventy-four acres, from which he has cleared most of the timber and otherwise
  greatly improved, devoting the land to general farming. He also engaged in
  lumbering.
  
      At the age of twenty-three he was united in marriage to Miss Cora, daughter
  of James H. Campbell. Two children have blessed this union: Ina Belle, born
  December 6, 1896, and Ethel M., born July 26, 1898. In politics Mr. Brenchley is
  an unyielding Republican and is at present serving a three-years term as road
  commissioner. He is a prominent member of the Patriotic Order Sons of America,
  with which he united some four years age, and is deservedly popular throughout
  the county, where he is well known.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
            Extracted from: 
              
            History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
            by Thomas J. Ingham
              
            Compendium of Biography
              
            The Lewis Publishing Company
            Chicago: 1899
  
  
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