BIO:  Jacob Brandt, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Franklin Township, Pg 105

JACOB BRANDT was born in 1827 in Carroll Township, York County, and is a son of 
Jacob and Rachel (McClure) Brandt, of York County, who, like the grandparents, 
followed farming.  Jacob Brandt was reared a farmer, and has always followed that 
occupation.  He owns 275 acres of some of the best land in the township, 
adjoining which he owns a small place of five acres, where his son David Lives; 
he is the owner also of thirty acres of mountain land, several building lots in 
Dillsburgh, three places in Adams County, and a fine building in Mt. Holly, 
Cumberland Co., Penn.  In 1848 he married Sarah Smith, a daughter of John S. 
Smith, who came from England in 1827.  They have had the following children:  
Mary E. (deceased), David, John, Sarah E. (deceased), Albert, Harry C. 
(deceased).  They all belong to the Evangelical Church, in which Mr. Brandt was 
steward for ten years.  In connection with his farming, he also deals in horses 
and mules, and has been for twenty-one years quite extensively engaged in that 
trade.