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JACOB N. BRUBAKER, who resides about two miles out of Carlisle in the township of North Middleton, on a well-cultivated farm of forty acres, is a son of David O. Brubaker, grandson of David Brubaker, and a great-grandson of John Brubaker, who came to America from Germany in 1710. David Brubaker, the grandfather, was a farmer, and was a very worthy and reliable man.

David O. Brubaker, the father of Jacob N., was born in Millersburg, Pa., Feb. 8, 1805, and there received an excellent common school education. When a young man he went to Lancaster county, and later learned the trade of tanning at Millersburg, Pa. Returning to Lancaster county he followed that trade until the close of the war. In 1864 he purchased a farm of 140 acres in Rapho township, Lancaster Co., Pa., which he sold about 1869, later purchasing a farm of 100 acres in North Middleton township, Cumberland Co., Pa., which he sold to his son. He then returned to Lancaster county, where he died March 12, 1888. Mr. Brubaker married Elizabeth Nauman, of Lancaster county, Pa., and their children were: Mary, Elizabeth, David, Caroline, Susan, Samuel and Jacob N. The mother of these died in 1843. Mr. Brubaker married (second) a Miss Bishop, of Lancaster county, Pa., they becoming the parents of one child, Isaac B. Mrs. Brubaker died in Lancaster county, aged seventy-one years.

Jacob N. Brubaker was born February 26, 1840, in Lancaster county, and there attended the common schools, in the intervals working for his father until he was twenty-seven years of age. He then removed to Cumberland county, and located in North Middleton township, on a farm about a mile north of where he now resides. In 1880 he purchased his present farm, upon which he built a barn, besides making many other improvements.

On March 5, 1875, Jacob N. Brubaker married Mary Elizabeth Wert, a daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Brought) Wert, of North Middleton township. The following named children were born to this union: Emma Jane, born Dec. 4, 1876, who married Charles M. Bear, a son of Levi and Elizabeth Bear, of Harrisburg, where she resides, they having one child, Mary E.; Carrie May, born July 27, 1881, at home; and David J., born July 20, 1886, now attending commercial college at Carlisle.

Mr. Brubaker is in politics Republican. His wife belongs to the Lutheran Church of Carlisle Springs, and both are very highly respected, and excellent representatives of the agricultural class of their county.