Charles H. Brosius

  General Notes:

Charles H. Brosious, son of Isaac E., was born March 4, 1880, in LowerMahanoy township, and there attended the common schools. He was reared to farming, which he followed as assistant to his father in his youth,continuing to live with his parents until 1904. That year he moved to Sunbury, where he continued to reside for a year and a half, following which he was located at Limestone, in Upper Augusta township, for four years, in the spring of 1910 settling at his present home in the central part of Rockefeller township, at the Center (Shipman)schoolhouse. It was at one time the Daniel Conrad homestead, later owned by William Horning, and consists of seventy -one acres of fertile land, with good buildings and various modern improvements. Everythingabout the property is in excellent condition, and Mr. Brosius has up-to-date machinery and the necessary equipment for carrying on his work
profitably and expeditiously. He has a silo, and is wide awake in adopting any approved apparatus or methods for facilitating good work,being regarded as one of the enterprising young farmers of his section. The farm is sure to improve materially under his energetic management. For nine years Mr. Brosius was engaged in the dairy business, conducting a daily milk route to Sunbury.
On July 9, 1904, Mr. Brosious married Katie May Foy, daughter of Daniel B. and Sallie M. (Rebuck) Foy, of Rockefeller township, and they have one daughter, Ellen May. Mr. Brosious and his family worship at the Hollowing Run Lutheran Church. Socially he holds membership in Lodge No. 203, I.O.O.F., of Sunbury.

Charles married Katie May Foy, daughter of Daniel B. Foy and Sallie M. Rebuck, on 9 Jul 1904.