Dr. Eli B. Brandt and Margaretta Caroline Mateer

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Husband Dr. Eli B. Brandt ^{1 2}

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           Born: 16 Apr 1829 - Monroe Twp, Cumberland Co, PA 3
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         Father: George Brandt (Abt 1791-1875) 3
         Mother: Barbara Beelman (      -1835) 3

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       Marriage: 12 Feb 1856 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 1 2

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Wife Margaretta Caroline Mateer ^{1 4 5}

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           Born:  - Lower Allen Twp, Cumberland Co, PA
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         Father: William Mateer (      -      ) 6 7 8
         Mother: Mary Ann Porter (      -      ) 6 7 9

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Children

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1 F Mary Brandt ³

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         Spouse: Oliver Yohn (      -      ) 3

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2 M Arthur D. Brandt ³

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Eli B. Brandt

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His ancestors emigrated from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania at an early day. He was brought up on the farm and enjoyed the advantages of the public schools of the county in which he became a teacher. He studied medicine and after attending the usual courses of lectures in Jefferson Medical College, graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1855. He immediately commenced to practice medicine in New Cumberland. In 1856 he married and removed to Shiremanstown, where he engaged in practice with Dr. Robert G. Young as senior partner. In 1864 he engaged in agricultural pursuits, but soon after returned to the practice of his profession in Mechanicsburg.
Dr. Brandt was a member of the Cumberland County Medical Society and also of the State Medical Society. [HCC 1886, 194]

He was born on the old family homestead farm of his father and grandfather in Monroe Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, five miles south of Mechanicsburg. He worked on his father's farm, attending and teaching school during winters until he was twenty-one, when he began the study of medicine with Dr. L. H. Luther, of Churchtown, Monroe Township, and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1855. He located first at New Cumberland, thence went to Shiremanstown and to Mechanicsburg in 1868, where he thereafter engaged in the practice of his profession. He was a member of the Cumberland County Medical Society, which he served as president and secretary, and was also a member of the State Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association.
He enlisted as surgeon of the Thirty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers May 29, 1863, and was mustered out in August, 1864. He was elected president, in 1861, of the Allen and East Pennsborough Society for the recovery of stolen horses and mules and the detection of thieves; re-elected in 1869, and held the office for many years.
He was elected mayor of Mechanicsburg in 1878-79-80, and again in 1884 and 1885. He was a delegate to the national convention at Chicago in 1868, and a delegate to Philadelphia in 1872. He was nominated Republican State senator of the Twentieth Senatorial District in 1874.

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Notes: Marriage

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He and his wife had seven children; two were still living in 1886.

1 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 194.

2 Editor, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 179, 406.

3 Editor, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 406.

4 Editor, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 179, 406, 495.

5 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 68.

6 Editor, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 406, 495.

7 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 709.

8 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 56.

9 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 67.