George was the youngest of 7 children of Johann Jacob & Mary Elizabeth Angle Brumbaugh of Clayland's Contrivance north of Hagerstown, MD. He married Louisa Gelwicks in the Salem Reformed Church where her father Charles also worshipped. They had no natural children but adopted Eleanor L. G. Brumbaugh, daughter of brother David Brumbaugh, born 1829, baptized 1831 and died 1834 before her fifth birthday. George bought The Sign of the Swan in Hagerstown in 1807 and sold it in 1811. He started a brewery thereafter and was selling hops. During the 1820s he was elected on of the five commissioner of Hagerstown and served several years as clerk for the commissioners. He opened a general story in the 1820s, Hess & Brumbaugh, but it burned down in 1827. In 1830, he was appointed to the Levy Court in Washington Co by the governor. He was a director of the fire company and also of the savings bank in town. HIs obituary in the Hagerstown Mail called him "long a respected inhabitant of Hagerstown." His wife survived him and died in 1840.
George was the youngest of 7 children of Johann Jacob & Mary Elizabeth Angle Brumbaugh of Clayland's Contrivance north of Hagerstown, MD. He married Louisa Gelwicks in the Salem Reformed Church where her father Charles also worshipped. They had no natural children but adopted Eleanor L. G. Brumbaugh, daughter of brother David Brumbaugh, born 1829, baptized 1831 and died 1834 before her fifth birthday. George bought The Sign of the Swan in Hagerstown in 1807 and sold it in 1811. He started a brewery thereafter and was selling hops. During the 1820s he was elected on of the five commissioner of Hagerstown and served several years as clerk for the commissioners. He opened a general story in the 1820s, Hess & Brumbaugh, but it burned down in 1827. In 1830, he was appointed to the Levy Court in Washington Co by the governor. He was a director of the fire company and also of the savings bank in town. HIs obituary in the Hagerstown Mail called him "long a respected inhabitant of Hagerstown." His wife survived him and died in 1840.
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