Pages 538 & 539
Adam
Brown, the grandfather of Samuel A., was descended from German ancestry and a
native of Northampton County, from whence he removed to Lehigh County. He was
united in marriage to Miss Margaret Spait, whose son, Paul, born on the 24th of
February, 1807, in Northampton County, resided in North Whitehall township,
Lehigh Co. He married Miss Maria Wotring, of the same county and township, and
had children, – Elizabeth, Samuel A., Stephen P., Kittie Ann, Louisa R., P.
Franklin, and Hiram Evan, of whom five survive. Samuel A. Was born Oct. 2,
1833, in North Whitehall township, where his boyhood was spent upon the farm of
his father. His education was obtained at the schools in the immediate
neighborhood of his home and at the Allentown Seminary. His health being far
from robust, necessitated, for a period of several years, cessation from active
labor, though he was eventually able to perform the duties of a clerk or
accountant. In 1862 he entered the army as first lieutenant of the One Hundred
and Seventy-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and remained in the service
eight months, when ill health compelled him to relinquish his commission. He
then became an employé of the Ironton Railroad Company, where he remained for
three years, performing the active duties of his position.
Mr. Brown was in 1868 married to Miss Amanda M., daughter of Stephen Graff, of
North Whitehall township. He was before his marriage, and is still, engaged in
mining in North Whitehall township, having, in connection with his brother,
leased the iron-ore beds from the estate of his father. He has encouraged also
a taste for agriculture, and devotes a portion of his time to farming, bringing
to bear in this, as in other employments, both intelligence and enterprise. He
is in his political associations a pronounced Democrat, and has served as
justice of the peace and school director of the township. He was formerly
associated with the Allentown National Bank as a director. Mr. Brown, with a
view
to the benefits arising from travel and change of scene, in 1880, made the tour
of Germany, Austria, France, and Belgium, and experienced much benefit from the
journey. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, though also a supporter of the
German Reform Church, with which Mrs. Brown is
connected.
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From
The History of the
Counties of Lehigh & Carbon, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
By
Alfred Mathews &
Austin N. Hungerford
Published
in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1884
Transcribed
from the original during winter 2006
by
Shirley
Kuntz
Proofing and web page by
May 2006