Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Bandt, Frank May 6, 1862 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

FRANK BRANDT
is one of that reliable and substantial class of men whose success in life
has depended upon their own efforts. He was born in Cambria county,
Pennsylvania, May 6, 1862, and is a son of William and Rosanna (Wade) Brandt.
The Brandts are of German descent, and Frank Brandt's paternal grandfather was
a native of Germany, and settled in Pennsylvania, where he was employed for
many years as a member of different brass and instrumental bands, which
traveled in various sections of the United States. His son, William Brandt
(father), was born in this State in 1812, and embarked in the saw and grist
mill business in Cambria county, where he remained until 1868, when he
removed to his present home on the Dry Gap road, one and one-half miles from
Altoona. After coming to Blair county he conducted a grocery in Altoona for
some years, at the end of which time he retired from the pursuits of active
business life. He has been successful in his various enterprises, has an
excellent farm where he resides, and owns a productive farm and good flouring
mill in Cambria county. He is a democrat and Catholic, and married Rosanna
Wade, who was born in Butler county in 1830, and is a member of the same
church as her husband. They reared a family of children.
      Frank Brandt was reared in Cambria county and the city of Altoona,
received his education in the public schools, and learned the trade of
carpenter, which he followed regularly until 1886. In that year he engaged in
contracting and building, which business he has followed continuously and
successfully ever since.
      In 1881 Mr. Brandt was united in marriage with Annie M. Burkhart,
daughter of James M. Burkhart, of Altoona. To their union have been born four
children: Bertha M., Annie, Elma V., and Catherine E.
      Frank Brandt has given close attention to his business, which he has
gradually increased from year to year until he now has a large and
remunerative patronage. His planing mill is on Twenty-first avenue, while his
office, shop and lumber yards are at No. 1628 Twentieth avenue, where he
furnishes estimates of all kinds of work in his line of business. He handles
shingles, lath, pickets, moldings, door frames and mantels. Mr. Brandt
resides on Twentieth avenue, in Logan township, just beyond the city limits,
owns considerable real estate, acquired by his own exertions, and has met
with good success as a contractor and builder. He is a democrat in politics,
a Catholic in religious belief and church membership, and an energetic and
thorough-going business man.

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