BIO: Andrew Boelus BRUMBAUGH, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 77-79.
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  ANDREW BOELUS BRUMBAUGH, M.D., Huntingdon, Pa., third son of Jacob and 
Rachel (Boyer) Brumbaugh, was born on the old Brumbaugh homestead in Penn 
township, Huntingdon county, August 9, 1836.  Among the earliest settlers in 
Blair and Huntingdon counties were the Brumbaugh family.  Dr. Brumbaugh's 
great-grandfather, Hans Heinrich Brumbaugh, settled at Conococheague, near 
Hagerstown, Md., about the middle of the eighteenth century.  His eldest and 
youngest sons, Jacob and George, both born in Germany, settled in Morrison's 
Cove, Blair county, but on account of Indian depredations, returned to 
Maryland, until after the Revolutionary war.  They then went back to Blair 
county, with a sister, afterwards the wife of Bishop Conrad Martin, of the 
Brethren church.  Several years later Jacob Brumbaugh, who was the great-
grandfather of the Doctor, bought land in Woodcock valley, Huntingdon 
county, to which he removed, and made his home there for the remainder of 
the century.  His son, George Brumbaugh, was born March 12, 1780.  In 1800 
he married Maria Bowers; their children are:  Isaac; Jacob; and John.  
George Brumbaugh died August 6, 1849; his wife died December 15, 1857.  He 
was a bishop in the church of the Brethren, and was succeeded in his office 
by his eldest son, Isaac, now deceased; John Brumbaugh also is a minister of 
the gospel.  The second son, Jacob Brumbaugh, was born on the homestead in 
Penn township, July 4, 1806.  In 1831 he married Rachel Boyer; their 
children are:  Henry, a farmer; George B., a pastor; Andrew Boelus, M. D.; 
Abraham W., died November 26, 1869; Rebecca (Mrs. R. Mason); Mary (Mrs. John 
Foust); Catherine (Mrs. John Rodgers); Rachel (Mrs. R. A. Zook); Prof. Jacob 
H., a noted Pennsylvania teacher; and David, deceased during his boyhood.  
Andrew B. Brumbaugh was engaged in farm work, and attended the district 
school near his father's residence, but disliking rural employments, he 
spent his early manhood in house carpentry and cabinet-making.  During these 
years of labor, he advanced his education by private study, mastering the 
branches of higher English education, including the physical sciences, and 
adding German, Latin and Greek.  He attained a  prominent place as a 
teacher, and in 1854 was a member of the second annual county teachers' 
institute held in his native county; he continued teaching in the public and 
other schools of the county for the ensuing nine years.  He began the study 
medicine in 1862, under Dr. John H. Wintrode, of Marklesburg (now deceased), 
and entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 
1863, graduating with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1866.  On April 5 
of the same year, he became a resident of Huntingdon, where he has since 
continued in the successful practice of medicine and surgery, and is held in 
high esteem by the prominent members of the profession throughout the 
country.  He is surgeon of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and has met with 
marked success in his work.  He is a member of the board of United States 
examining surgeons for the Pension Bureau; a member of the Huntingdon County 
Medical Society, was one of its organizers in 1872, and has been almost 
continuously its secretary; a member of the Pennsylvania State Medical 
Society; of the American Medical Association; of the National Association of 
Railway Surgeons, and of the American Academy of Railway Surgeons,. In the 
midst of a very busy life he finds time to keep abreast of rapid progress of 
the nineteenth century in medical science, and has on more than one occasion 
read papers of great interest and practical usefulness before the medical 
societies of Pennsylvania and the National Association of Railway Surgeons.  
Dr. Brumbaugh was one of the founders of the Juniata College of Huntingdon, 
and has been since its establishment lecturer on Hygiene, and secretary of 
the board of trustees; was one of the founders of the Home for Orphan and 
Friendless Children, and has been continuously a member of the board of 
trustees.  He is county inspector of the State Board of Health, and a member 
of the local board.  Dr. Brumbaugh is public-spirited, decided in his 
opinions, carrying out his convictions against all obstacles and without 
regard to the opinions of others.  He is a great and valuable store of 
books, literary matter and scientific specimens.  He is editor of the 
Juniata Echo, and a member of the Juniata Valley and Pennsylvania Editorial 
Associations.
  Dr. Andrew B. Brumbaugh was married, October 11, 1859, to Maria B., 
daughter of Jacob Frank, Esq., of Huntingdon county.  Their two children, 
Gains Marcus Brumbaugh, M. D., and Mrs. Cora A. B. Silverthorn, are living 
to bless that union.  Dr. Brumbaugh is a member of the Brethren (German 
Baptist) church, and has been secretary of the congregation in Huntingdon 
since its organization in 1873.