PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Betty Ralph
bralph@HiWAAY.net
December 1, 1999
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Copyright © 1999 by  Betty Ralph. This copy contributed for use in
the OH Biographies Project.  bralph@hiwaay.net


from "History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., 
Chicago, 1885

REUBEN BROBST, wood buyer, Brimfield, was born in Lehigh County, Penn.,
January 22, 1824, son of Daniel and Mary (Brobst) Brobst.  His paternal
grandfather was Michael Brobst, of Lehigh County, and a farmer by
occupation, and his maternal grandfather was John Brobst, of same county, a
prominent farmer and merchant.  Our subject was reared in Lehigh County
until sixteen years of age.  He then went to Washington, Penn., where he
served an apprenticeship of five years at the tinner’s trade.  In 1847 he
settled in Brimfield, this county, and worked at his trade in connection
with putting up eves troughs, for fifteen years.  He then embarked in his
present business, in which he has since been profitably engaged.  Mr. Brobst
was married, in 1848, to Orra, daughter of Nathaniel Packard, an early
settler of Brimfield Township, and by this union there are four children:
Electra, wife of Henry Ewell; Orpha, wife of Peter Snyder, Alice and Edward
D.  Mr. Brobst is a F. & A. M.  In politics a Democrat.