Biography of Edward M. Brumback, pages 673/674/675. History of DeKalb County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914. Edward M. Brumback Agriculture has been an honored vocation from the earliest ages and as a usual thing men of honorable and humane impulses, as well as those of energy and thrift, have been patrons of husbandry. The free, out-door life of the farm has a decided tendency to foster and develop that independence of mind and self-reliance which characterize true manhood, and no truer blessing can befall a boy that to be reared in close touch with nature in the healthful, life-inspiring labor of the fields. It has always been the fruitful soil from which have sprung the moral bone and sinew of the country, and the majority of the nation’s great warriors, renowned statesmen and distinguished men of letters were born on the farm and were indebted largely to its early influence for the distinction which they have attained. Edward M. Brumback was born on April 5, 1853, in Fairfield township, DeKalb county, Indiana, and is the son of Jesse M. and Jane (Showers) Brumback. Jesse M. Brumback was born in Huron county, Ohio, on April 2, 1823, a son of Daniel and Sarah (Culp) Brumback. He remained with his parents until his majority, when he engaged in farming in his native county, where he remained until October, 1846, when he came to DeKalb county, Indiana, locating in Fairfield township, where he began the clearing of one hundred and sixty acres of heavily timbered land. His means were limited, but by industry and good management he was successful and eventually acquired the ownership of over three hundred acres of land, apart of which he gave to his son, the subject of this sketch. Mr. Brumback was married on April 7, 1850, to Melissa J. Showers, the daughter of Solomon Showers, of Richland township, DeKalb county, though she was born in Michigan. To them were born three children, namely: Celia R., the wife of John E., Walters, of Kendallville, Indiana; Edward M., the immediate subject of this sketch, and Cornelia J., who died in infancy. The mother of these children died on March 9, 1855, and on November 2, 1856, Mr. Brumback married Lucinda Gloid, a native of Richland county, Ohio, and the daughter of Samuel and Rebecca (Smith) Gloid. In politics Mr. Brumback was a Democrat and served his fellow citizens in public capacity, having been a justice of the peace for a short time, and in 1862 was elected county clerk, in which position he served three years. The subject of this sketch attended the common schools of his home vicinity and also attended the high school in Auburn. He was reared to the life of a farmer, a vocation to which he has devoted himself throughout his active life. He is the owner of a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Richland township, on which he resides and on which he is engaged in general farming and stock raising, and he also has an interest in the old home place. He carries on a general line of farming and his home place embraces some of the best improvements in the locality, his buildings of all kinds being first class and in excellent repair, everything about the premises indicating the close attention and progressive spirit manifested by the proprietor in the prosecution of his labors. Mr. Brumback is a good business man and is well read and widely informed, keeping in touch with the leading question, of the day and abreast of the times on all matters in which the public is likely to be interested. Personally, he is held in high esteem by his neighbors and fellow citizens, his character and integrity having ever been above criticism, while his relations with his fellow men are such as to win for him the friendship of all who know him. Politically, he gives his support to the Democratic party, though he is too busy a man to aspire to public office. On March 5, 1891, Mr. Brumback was united in marriage to Lottie Smith, a lady of charming personality, who is held in the highest esteem by all who know her. She is the daughter of Thomas and Mary (McLain) Smith, he a native of Carroll county, Ohio, and she from Columbiana county, Ohio. They moved from eastern Ohio to western Ohio, and then, in 1870, came to Sedan, DeKalb county, Indiana. Later they went to Nebraska, where he died. Submitted by: Arlene Goodwin Auburn, Indiana Agoodwin@ctlnet.com