BIO: Martin Grove 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, page 77.
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  MARTIN GROVE BRUMBAUGH, Huntingdon, Pa., was born in Penn township, 
Huntingdon county, April 14, 1862, son of George B. and Martha P. Brumbaugh, 
who now reside in Marklesburg.  Mr. Brumbaugh has also two brothers, Frank 
G., of Huntingdon, and Irvin G., of Marklesburg.  The Brumbaugh family are 
among the oldest and most widely spread connections in the region including 
Pennsylvania and Maryland.  A remote ancestor of Mr. M. G. Brumbaugh's, Hans 
Heinrich Brumbaugh, came with his family from Germany some time in the first 
half of the eighteenth century, and settled at Conococheague, near 
Hagerstown, Md.; and several branches of the family were among original 
settlers in Huntingdon and neighboring counties.  They have been noted for 
intelligence and activity, and have held prominent social and church 
positions.
  Martin G. Brumbaugh attended the common schools and Juniata College, 
graduating in 1881; taught country schools in 1877 and '78, and after 
studying in the scientific course at Millersville State Normal School in 
'82, taught in his Alma Mater until 1884.  He was then elected county 
superintendent of schools, and re-elected in 1887, serving six years.  In 
1885 Mr. Brumbaugh took his degree in the scientific course; in 1890, 
entered  Howard University as a post-graduate student; after a year's study, 
removed to the University of Pennsylvania, taking the degree of A. M. in 
cursu in '92, and Ph. D. in cursu in '94.  In 1894 he was elected president 
of Juniata College and professor of pedagogy in the University of 
Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; both of these positions he fills at the 
present time.  He spent the summer of 1895 in Europe, studying the 
educational systems of Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and England.  Mr. 
Brumbaugh has twice been a member of the town council of Huntingdon; is a 
life member of the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association; a life member 
of the Pennsylvania Historical Society; a member of the New York 
Schoolmasters' Club; has been a lecturer in teachers' institutes for ten 
years, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky and 
Louisiana; is a member of the faculty of the Pennsylvania Summer School of 
Methods and of Martha's Vineyard School of Methods, Ocean City, Mass.
  Martin Grove Brumbaugh was married in 1884 to Anna Konigmacher, of 
Ephrata, Pa., a graduate of Juniata College.  Their children are:  Mabel, 
born in 1887; and Edwin, born in 1890.