Notes for Seneca BREYFOGEL

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Notes for Seneca BREYFOGEL

After leaving school Seneca engaged in farming and then embarked in the coal business at Reading in which he was very successful, but believing he was called to the ministry, he gave up his business and prepared himself for that calling. He became entitled with the Evangelical Association and his first charge was a circuit in eastern Pennsylvania. His ability as a speaker was marked, and in a comparatively short time he was called to larger charges, among those he filled being Morristown, Port Carbon, Tamaqua, and Easton. The results of his work were widespread, and he became a great power for good throughout his section of the state. He left a large estate.

SOURCE: Excerpt from the History of Berks county, Page 439

SOURCE: The Breyfogle Genealogy, Flora Breyfogle Grumman, About 1909, Page 7

Seneca and Sarah are living in Oley Township, Berks County, PA. Seneca is listed as a farmer and a 2-year old female is listed in the same household. The name of this child is Charity Keeber (could be Keeper, Keefer) and it is unkown if this is a child of this couple.

SOURCE: 1850 Federal Census Oley, Berks, PA

Seneca and Esther are living with there three children in Reading, PA where his employment is listed as laborer. Flora Grumman and Lewis W. Breyfogle recorded two children for this couple but the census form appears to assign an infant son to them.

EDITORS NOTE: In a lengthy article written about his son Sylvanus, it is reported that Seneca and Esther had four children, with two of them living at the time the work was published. (Sylvanus & Ellen)

SOURCE: 1860 Federal Census Reading, Berks, PA; Berks County Book of Biographies

Seneca, now working as a clergyman, and his wife Sarah and their children Sylvanus and Ellen are living in the small town of Tamaqua, PA. There is no mention of the third child listed on the the 1860 Federal Census.

SOURCE: 1870 Federal Census Tamaqua, Schuykill, PA

Seneca and Sarah are living in Reading, PA and Seneca lists himself as a preacher. Living in the same household is Ellen, her husband James Miller, and their 3-month old infant son Ralph.

SOURCE: 1880 Federal Census Reading, Berks, PA

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