Penrose F Eisenbrown^[1]

1831 - 1898  (67 years)

• Name	Penrose F Eisenbrown
  Born	03 Apr 1831	Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Penrose, P. F., Sons & Co
  Died	4 Jul 1898	Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
  Buried	09 Jul 1898	Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania
  Person ID	I146854	Strausstown Roots | ~HasslerFreeman
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2021

  
  

  Family	Sarah S Smith,   b. 25 Oct 1839, Pennsylvania ,   d. 07 Mar 1917, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania  (Age 77 years)
  Married	03 Jul 1859	Greenbrier, Upper Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
  	Detail: Rev. Jared Fritzinger
  Children	1. Wilson Henry Eisenbrown,   b. 24 Aug 1872, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 28 Apr 1955, West Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania  (Age 82 years)   2. John Daniel Eisenbrown,   b. 12 Jun 1886, Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 07 Dec 1966, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania  (Age 80 years)
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2018
  Family ID	F47983	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Military Records

  Gettysburg National Park - 151st Pennsylvania Infantry monument The 151st monument was created in Reading in 1887-1888 by the Eisenbrown P. F., Sons & Company. Jared Bohn Faust was the chief engraver. He, along with his brother David, were responsible for several of the Gettysburg monuments including the 151st & 93rd.

  
  

• Sources

  [S151] Montgomery Bios, Morton L. Montgomery, (. H. Beers & Company of Chicago, 1909), p. 340. Penrose F. Eisenbrown, who died suddenly at his home in Allentown, July 4, 1898, was one of the oldest business men of Berks county, and a man whose life had been so ordered as to merit the high esteem and affection of all who knew him. He was born near Allentown April 3, 1831, son of John Daniel and Charlotte Barbara ( Wolf ) Eisenbrown. John Daniel Eisenbrown was born in Adelberg, Germany. He came to this country when sixteen years of age, landing at Philadelphia. He was an organist and also followed tombstone cutting, and taught in a parochial school. He moved to Allentown in the fifties and lived there until March, 1874, when he died suddenly of apoplexy, just as he was preparing to move to Greenbrier, Northumberland county. His remains rest in Union cemetery, Allentown. Mr. Eisenbrown was twice married. His first wife was Charlotte Barbara Wolf, daughter of John George and Maria ( Bauer ) Wolf. She died in 1833, the mother of eight children, and is buried in a graveyard at Egypt Church in Northampton county. The children born to John Daniel and Charlotte Barbara (Wolf ) Eisenbrown were: (1) Frances m. (first ) a Mr. Kuhl, a lithographer in Philadelphia, and had two children, George and Mary. She m. (second ) Peter Hauck, of Philadelphia, who owned a large confectionery establishment and considerable property in Allentown. There were no children born to this second marriage. (2) Edward Constantine m. the only daughter of a well-to-do farmer named Keiffer, near Milton, and they had one child who died just ten days before his father. The latter's death was the result of an accident. He had sold some cattle and was on his way home when he was caught by a train on a bridge and was killed. (3) Mary Ann m. , lived and died in Whitehall, Pa. (4) Charlotte, deceased, m. Joseph Beitel, who lives in Allentown. (5) Wilhelmina m. Charles H. Eggert, and lived in Bethlehem. She died and is buried in the Moravian cemetery there. Her husband died in 1907. Two children survive. (6) Matilda, Mrs. Steinbach, lived at Limestoneville, Montour county, where she is buried. Her husband was a shoemaker by trade. He enlisted in the Civil War. They were the parents of six children. (7) Penrose Frederick was born April 3, 1831. (8) William, born in 1833, was adopted at Egypt by a family named Troxel, who afterward moved to Carroll county, Md. He became a painter by trade. He m. Mary Fuhrman and they now live on her father's homestead, which they own. They have no children. John George Wolf, father of Mrs. John Daniel Eisenbrown, was born in January, 1774, and died June 27, 1842; his wife, Anna Maria Bauer, was born July 17, 1775, and died in 1843. Their family consisted of two sons -- Fred and George -- and four daughters -- Mrs. Christiana Grossholz, Mrs. Souders, Mrs. Hoffman, and Mrs. Eisenbrown. John George Wolf was a wood turner, making a specialty of spinning wheels. John Daniel Eisenbrown, for his second wife, m. Mary Troxel. They were members of St. Paul's New School Lutheran Church, at Allentown, and both are buried in the cemetery there. Of the children of this marriage, Emma m. James Myers, a shoemaker, and they lived at the corner of Jordan and Liberty streets, opposite the thread mill in Allentown ; Pauline m. a Mr. Knaus, a cabinet- maker of Philadelphia ; Theresa died when eighteen years old ; Christine became Mrs. Scheffer, and died a year after her marriage ; Alfred was a drummer boy in the Union Army, and died in the service ; Otto m. Amanda Scheffer, and is deceased. Penrose F. Eisenbrown was but a year and a half old when his mother died, and he was taken to the home of his grandfather Wolf. Mr. Wolf was a woodcarver by trade, and he early trained his grandson in that line, at the same time cultivating in him habits of industry and thrift. Mr. Eisenbrown was ambitious and determined to enter business for himself. He began at Minersville, with a small establishment and a few hands, and there he was very successful. Thence he went to Pottsville, where he met with equal success, but his health failed, and he sold out in 1870, to engage in farming. About three years later he came to Reading, and he entered the marble business, building up a trade and reputation second to none. Monuments public and private, the work of his establishment, have been distributed all over the state. His taste was excellent and his workmanship the best. About 1896 he gave up active workmanship in the firm, which of late years was known as P. F. Eisenbrown, Sons & Co. , and moved to Allentown, where his death occurred. Mr. Eisenbrown was a great lover of literature, and his library was large and well chosen. He possessed no little poetical talent, and produced many German and English poems, some of which were published in the Allentown and other papers, while many remained unprinted, only to be found among his papers at his death. He was an earnest Christian. In 1848 he organized a Sunday-School at Lehigh Church and superintended it many years. This school was very successful, and only a very short time before his death Mr. Eisenbrown participated in the exercises celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. He was a kind and sympathetic man, and as an instance of this, while he was teaching in the Lehigh Church and still a young man, an epidemic broke out, and the people were being swept before it in great numbers. He saw the need of assistance, and at once entered upon the task of nursing and tending those afflicted, and remained steadfast at this until the scourge abated. For his fidelity and kindness he was ever after held in grateful remembrance by those people. When he was a little boy some five years of age, and living with his grandfather, an uncle Frederick Wolf, donated the land for the church and cemetery since known as Zion's Hill, Bucks Co., Pa. , and Mr. Eisenbrown had the great pleasure of lifting the first shovelful of earth at the excavating for the erection of the first church there. It was his delight all through life to labor for and assist any and all matters for the Church and Sunday-School. On July 3, 1859, at Greenbrier, Northumberland county, by the Rev. Jared Fritzinger, Mr. Eisenbrown was married to Sarah S. Smith, born Oct. 25, 1839, only daughter of Jonathan and Sally ( Snyder ) Smith. The following children were born of this union : Harvey Jonathan, born Sept. 22, 1860, at Greenbrier, baptized Nov. 22, 1860, died July 22, 1861, aged ten months ; Alice Charlotte, born Aug. 26, 1862, at Minersville, m. , Edward Christian, who is connected with the marble business ; Harry Wolf, born in Minersville, Sept. 16, 1864, baptized Nov. 14, 1864, is deceased. ; Charles Smith, born in Pottsville, Oct. 19, 1866, baptized June 28, 1867, m. Alice Kauffman, and is the senior member of the firm ; Annie, born in Pottsville, Sept. 18, 1868, died Dec. 29, 1870 ; George Franklin, born in Pottsville, Oct. 31, 1870, baptized Feb. 27, 1871, m. Rosa Fix, and is a member of the firm ; Wilson Henry, born Aug. 24, 1872, baptized April 29, 1873, m. Annie Faust, daughter of J. B. Faust ( superintendent of the lettering department in the plant ) and is in the Biehl Carriage and Wagon Works ; Edward Penrose, born in Reading, April 15, 1875, baptized July 4, 1875, m. Sarah Reeser, and is superintendent of the Granite Department at the North Reading Granite Works ; Mary Henrietta, born May 8, 1877, in Reading, baptized Oct. 1, 1877, died Dec. 4, 1879 ; Samuel Frederic, born in Reading, Sept. 16, 1879, baptized Jan. 4, 1880, m. Rosa Wentzel, widow of Harry Eisenbrown, and is a salesman for the firm ; Martha Sarah, born in Reading, March 4, 1882, baptized July 2, 1882, m. Dr. Samuel B. Geise of Jersey Shore, Lycoming Co. , Pa. ; and John Daniel, born June 6, 1886, baptized Oct. 3, 1886, is unmarried and is engaged in the firm as bookkeeper. Mrs. Eisenbrown resides at No. 522 Elm street, Reading. She owns the old homestead of 125 acres in Greenbrier-- a farm once the property of her grandfather. Her sons have continued the marble and granite business so substantially successful under the father's management, and they are meeting with that prosperity that attends well-directed effort and honorable dealings.