HUSBAND OF LIZZIE KIMES, FOUR CHILDREN, KATIE BROWNBACK -MOSES,GEORGE K, MAURICE K, JESSIE K,
JACOB C. BROWNBACK, a leading farmer of Anselma, West Pikeland township, who was a gallant soldier
during the civil war, and has been an active, enterprising and useful citizen ever since, is a descendant of the early
emigrant, Garrett Brownback, and a son of Jesse and Elizabeth (Christman) Brownback. He was born in East
Coventry township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1840, and grew to manhood on his father's farm,
receiving a practical English education in the public schools of that township. Soon after leaving school he
engaged in farming, to which occupation he had been early trained, and he has made that his principal business to
the present time. In 1873 he removed to West Pikeland township, where he purchased a fine farm containing one
hundred and forty acres of valuable land, all well improved and amply supplied with convenient farm buildings.
Here he has resided ever since, and has been very successful in the management of his excellent farm. He is a
republican in politics, and in religion he and his family are members of the German Reformed
church. On August 5, 1862, at the age of twenty-two, Mr. Brownback enlisted as a private in Co. I, 6th
Pennsylvania cavalry, and served continuously until the close of the war, being honorably discharged at Cloud's
Mill, Virginia, in June, 1865. He was a brave and gallant soldier, actively participating in the terrible conflicts at
Sharpsburg, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spottsylvania, beside a number of other
minor contests and skirmishes in different States. He was a member of that monster military organization known
in history as the army of the Potomac, and was personally present in nearly all its historic engagements.
"On December 15, 1868, Mr. Brownback was married to Lizzie Kimes, a daughter of Samuel Kimes, a
prosperous farmer of West Pikeland township. This union was blessed by the birth of four children, three sons
and a daughter: Katie K., George K., Maurice K., and Jesse K., all living at home with their parents on the farm.
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