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• Hij is geboren October 20, 1840 in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten.Bron 1

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• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1919, hij was toen 79 jaar oud.Bron 1

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• Hij is begraven in Hillsgrove, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, USA.Bron 1
• Een kind van Joseph Brong en Catharine Hufsmith

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Hij heeft/had een relatie met Anna M. Brong.

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Veteran of the Rebellion

Company F
176th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry

===== WILLIAM BRONG =====

Cultivating the soil has been the principal occupation of the gentleman whose name heads this sketch, and he is the owner of a farm pleasantly situated in Hillsgrove township, Sullivan County, Pa. His parents are Joseph and Catherine (Hufsmith) Brong, and he was born in Monroe County, Pa., October 20, 1840. Our subject's grandfather was Jacob Brong, also a native of Monroe County; he was engaged in farming and the lumber business and owned a large saw-mill. He continued to reside in Monroe County all his life and died there an old man. Joseph Brong was born in Monroe County, Pa., where he lives at the present time, having spent over eighty years of his life in that county. He has been a farmer all his life, and has been remarkably successful; he has made many friends, all of whom respect and esteem him for his many sterling qualities.

He was twice married. His first wife was Catherine Hufsmith, a native of Monroe County, and his second wife was Mrs. Catherine Kreste. Our subject's mother died in 1880. She was the mother of thirteen children, who were named as follows: William, our subject, the eldest; Sarah, who is a resident of Monroe County; Mary Ann, wife of J. B. Miller of Wilkesbarre, Pa.; Hannah, who united in marriage with William Everitt, a retired farmer of Monroe County, Pa.; Charles H.. a carpenter by trade, residing at Peckville, Pa.; Emeline, who resides at home; Julia Ann, deceased; Savannah, who married Albert Kreste, and they are residents of Bethlehem, Pa.; John, a laborer residing at Wilkesbarre, Pa.; Millard, who lives in Monroe County, Pa.; Nathan, deceased; and two who died in their infancy.

William Brong began farming as a laborer in his native county; when the Civil War broke out he volunteered his services, and in September, 1862, he enlisted in Company F, 176th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf., under Col. A. A. Leckler and Capt. Nicholas. The company only participated in a few skirmishes, and at the expiration of his enlistment, on June 2, 1863, our subject was discharged. Returning home he began the life of a farmer, and in 1891 he left his native county and removed to Sullivan County and settled in Hillsgrove township, where he began lumbering; later he settled on his present homestead near Hillsgrove, owning a fine farm of eighty-two acres. December 25, 1864,

Mr. Brong was united in marriage with Ann Maria Anglemire, born in Monroe County, Pa., June 9, 1841, and a daughter of Adam and Sarah (Kreste) Anglemire, both of whom are now deceased; her father was a farmer by occupation. Mr. and Mrs. Brong are the parents of four children, namely: Adam J., who resides at home; Robert, a farmer of Hillsgrove township, who married Cora Jackson; Alda M., who died young; and Bertha, an adopted child, born April 16, 1895. Mr. Brong was formerly a Democrat, but is now a Republican; he has held the office of road commissioner several years. Religiously he and his wife are members of the German Reformed Church of Hillsgrove.

(SOURCE: Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District, page 747. Published in 1899 by Biographical Publishing Company, transcribed by Tammy Clark)

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