DANIEL CLAUSER BRUMBACH
Daniel's Lineage: Hermanus Emanuel Brumbach 1751 - 1803
***Daniel Brumbach 1794 - 1884
******Samuel Spohn Brumbach 1814 - 1882
*********Daniel Clauser Brumbach 1840 - ?

Daniel was born in August, 1840, in Pike Twp., Berks Co., Pa. "for 28 years he conducted the undertaking and cabinet furniture business at Boyertown, Pa., and was one of the organizers of the Boyertown Casket Co., the leading industry of the borough. It was organized in 1884, with a capital stock of $20,000, and this was increased in 1897 to $100,000. The company has a large 8 story office building on Arch St., Philadelphia....He is a director of the union Mfg. Co., and a director and v. p. of the Franklin Improvement Co. this concern gives employment to 300 to 400 people, and is a very successful corporation...In political views Mr. Brumbach is a Democrat.

"For 6 years he was a member of the town council, and for 3 yrs. served as treasurer of the school board.

During the Civil War he became a member of Co. A, 128th Pa. Vol. Inf., which was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, and he participated in the battles of Antietam and South Mountain. While his co. was at Maryland Heights he Was prostrated with fever and for 4 months was confined in different hospitals but finally was able to return to his co. and was honorably discharged in 1863.

He is a member of Gen. Cook Post G. A. R. of Boyertown."

"Member Reform Church and has served for a no. of yrs. as deacon and elder. Since 1905 he has been president of the Fairview Cemetery Board.

Mr. Brumbach married Caroline Moyer, daughter of Isaac Moyer of Pike Twp., Berks Co., Pa. They had five children:

1. Frank, cabinet maker of Boyertown, Pa.
2. Amandus, undertaker at Allentown, Pa.; died.
3. Ella, married James Brown, Kutztown, Pa. ( 1 son, Harold.)
4. Carrie, died.
5. Daniel, died.

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