Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with an introductory historical sketch . , now numerous and in-fluential in Eastern Pennsylvania, tracesits origin back to Germany, and wasplanted in America by Garrett Brownback(originally written Gerhard Brumbach),whocame over from Amsterdam in the sailingship Concord in 1683, and settled first atGennantown, near Philadelphia, and laterremoved to Chester county. There he be-came a large land holder, kept the first hotelin
Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with an introductory historical sketch . , now numerous and in-fluential in Eastern Pennsylvania, tracesits origin back to Germany, and wasplanted in America by Garrett Brownback(originally written Gerhard Brumbach),whocame over from Amsterdam in the sailingship Concord in 1683, and settled first atGennantown, near Philadelphia, and laterremoved to Chester county. There he be-came a large land holder, kept the first hotelin his section, and was the founder ofBrownbacks German Reformed died in 1757, at an advanced age. Oneof his descendants, in the third generation,was William Brownback, paternal grand-father of the subject of this sketch, who wasa prominent farmer of Chester county,where he died July 29, 1890, aged eighty-four years. He was a lifelong member ofthe Reformed church, in the upbuildingand success of which he took a lively inter-est, and was a well known and esteemedcitizen of his county. He married Eliza Wilson, by whom hehad a family of four children, one of hissons being James Brownback (father), who. j^?(|^*W
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