Husband: Owen Eric BRUMBAUGH
Birthdate: 6/7/1850
Birthplace: Rossville, Clinton Co., IN
Death date: Aft 1920
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Father: John Wagaman BRUMBAUGH
Mother: Martha KANABLE

Marriage date: 3/7/1877
Marriage place: Clinton Co., IN

Wife: Mary Elizabeth MAGEE
Birthdate: 8/1/1851
Birthplace: North Carolina
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Father: William MAGEE
Mother: Jean MARSH

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Child No. 1: Ethel Martha BRUMBAUGH
Sex: F
Birthdate: 5/22/1878
Birthplace: Indiana
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Child No. 2: Jessie Jean BRUMBAUGH
Sex: F
Birthdate: 7/27/1879
Birthplace: Indiana
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Spouse's name: William Knox SPROULE

Child No. 3: Olive Harford BRUMBAUGH
Sex: F
Birthdate: 4/13/1881
Birthplace: Indiana
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Child No. 4: John McGee BRUMBAUGH
Sex: M
Birthdate: 11/30/1883
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Documentation:
   * 1860 Owen appears on the 1860 census for Ross Township, Clinton County, Indiana, dwelling number 1187, family number 1187. He is 10 years old and is living with his father and stepmother.
   * 1870 Owen appears on the 1870 census for Ross Township, Clinton County, Indiana, family number 350. He is 21 years old and works on the farm.
   * 1880 Owen and Mary E. appear on the 1880 census for Frankfort, Clinton County, Indiana. He is 29 years old and is working as a lawyer. She is 28. There are 2 children shown.
   * 1900 Owen and Mary appear on the 1900 census for Frankfort, Center Township, Clinton County, Indiana, dwelling number 187, family number 191. He is 48 years old and is working as a lawyer. She is 47. They have been married 24 years. There have been 4 children; 3 still living.
   * 1920 Owen E. and Mary E. appear on the 1920 census for Frankfort, Center Township, Clinton County, Indiana, dwelling numbr 39, family number 47. He is 68 years old and is working as a lawyer. She is 67. There is 1 child shown.
   * From the book HISTORY OF CLINTON COUNTY, INDIANA Published 1886 by Inter-state Press:
   O. E. Brumbaugh, attorney at law, Frankfort, Clinton County, was born in Ross Township, this county, June 6, 1850. He pased his youth on the farm of his parents, John W. and Martha (Knable) Brumbaugh, with whom he remained until reaching his majority. He received his primary education at the common schools, completing it at the academy at Ladoga, IN and Salem College, of Bourbon, IN. When 17, he began teaching in the district schools, and in the high schools of Frankfort, which he followed until 1877. In 1875 he began the study of law in the offices of Doyal and Gard and in 1877 was admitted to the bar. He began the practice of law iin May 1878, which he has since followed with success. In 1878, he was elected city attorney and held office 6 years. He served as president of the school board and as mayor of Frankfort from May of 1884 to the spring of 1886.
   Mr. Brumbaugh married March 22, 1877 to Mary E. Magee. They have 4 children. They are members of the Mothodist Episcopal Church. He is a Republican.
   * BRUMBAUGH, Owen E.
   It is not an easy task to give adequate description of the character of a man who has led an eminently active and busy life in connection with the great legal profession and who has stamped his individuality on the plane of definite accomplishment in one of the most exacting fields of human endeavor. However, there is great satisfaction and much pride in adverting even in this cursory manner to the career of Owen E. Brumbaugh, one of the most able, conscientious and honored workers in the legal profession of Clinton county, and one of the most conspicuous men of Frankfort. In civic life he has been prominent, and he has held the unqualified esteem of his fellow citizens since his entrance into the business life of the city. The fact that Mr. Brumbaugh has been honored with the highest public office in the power of the city is sufficient proof of his able services and reputation of merit.
   Owen E. Brumbaugh was born on his father's farm near the town of Rossville, Clinton county, Indiana, and is the eldest child of John W. and Martha (KANABLE) BRUMBAUGH.
   John W. Brumbaugh, the father of our subject, was born near the village of Union, Montgomery county, Ohio, and his mother, Martha Kanable, was a native of the state of Pennsylvania. She died, however, when our subject was less than four years of age, leaving him, his father, and his sister, Amanda, who is now the wife of John M. MYLER, of Lebanon. South Dakota. John W. Brumbaugh followed the trade of a carpenter, and many residences and other structures still stand in Clinton county that were constructed by him. He was a self-made man and had considerable influence in his community. He was married the second time to Amanda D. NEHER, and of this union the following children were born: Eliza .A., Susan C., Dennis M., Jacob A., and Martha. In the year 1872 the father, with all of his children, moved to Illinois, settling near the town of Cerro Gordo, and there died in 1874. John w. Brumbaugh led and believed in an honorable and industrious life, and his years were replete with beneficence properly bestowed.
   Owen Brumbaugh grew to manhood on his father's farm, working there and attending the common schools. At the age of seventeen he began teaching and continued in the smaller schools until the year 1873, when he accepted better employment in the intermediate and high school departments of the Frankfort city schools. His own education was obtained in the country schools as mentioned before; in the Frankfort normal schools, under the instruction of Prof. E. H. Staley; at the academy in Ladoga, Indiana, under Prof. M. B. Hopkins; at Salem College, Bourbon, Indiana, and at the Bryant and Stratton Business College of Indianapolis.
   Although he had made a success of his pedagogic efforts, Mr. Brumbaugh treasured the ambition to enter the legal profession, and utilized every opportunity to study the fundamental principles of the law. It was while engaged in teaching in the Frankfort schools that he entered the law office of Doyal & Gard, were he rapidly gained the prestige and experience that led to his being admitted to the Clinton County Bay in 1877, of which he has been a member ever since.
   His own practice commenced in 1878, when he was elected city attorney of Frankfort. His work has been decidedly active since that time, having practiced in the circuit, appellate, supreme and federal courts of Indiana, and also in the courts of adjoining states. His practice has been a general one, including civil, probate and criminal cases, and, to his credit, it must be said that he has won the great majority of cases which he has entered. Consequently, his clients have the greatest confidence in his ability and do not hesitate to repose their full trust in his legal skill.
   Mr. Brumbaugh, during the last twelve years, has been honored more than once with public office. As city attorney, president of the school board and as mayor of the city, he has given his constituents and patrons the benefit of his hardest efforts. He has also devoted much of his time to municipal law and municipal affairs and has successfully waged and won many legal controversies for the city of Frankfort. In 1896 Mr. Brumbaugh was nominated for judge of the Clinton circuit court by the Republican party, with which he always affiliated, but together with his colleagues on the ticket, was defeated by force of the demand of the voters of that time for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one, as proposed by the platform of the Democratic party.
   Mr. Brumbaugh was married March 22, 1877, to Mary E. MAGEE, daughter of William and Jane MAGEE. Four children were born to them, namely: Ethel M., married to Charles E. COOPER, now farming in Texas; Jessie Jean, married to William K. SPROULE, Jr., cashier of National City Bank of Indianapolis, Olive H., at home, librarian at Frankfort, and John N, who died at the age of five years. Mr. Brumbaugh is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Pages 403 – 404. Source II.

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