William M. Brundage

        William M. Brundage, farmer, is a native of New York, born November 11, 1831, and the son of Jonathan W. Brundage and Permelia (Mills) Brundage, both natives of Orange County, N. Y., and both of German descent. The father was one of the most successful physicians of Susquehanna County, Penn.; he died in 1864, at the age of sixty-five, and mother in 1861, at the age of sixty-one. Our subject received a fair education in the common schools of Pennsylvania. He began life a poor man after the late war, but now owns a good farm on Mission Ridge, four miles from Chattanooga. The farm is well cultivated, is very fertile and productive, is estimated to be very valuable, as compared with the valuation of land sold near him. In 1858, Mr. Brundage married Miss Sarah J. Bennett, a native of Pennsylvania, born May 22, 1841, and the daughter of L. G. and Maria J. Bennett. To our subject and wife were born two daughters: Georgie V. and Nora E. Previous to the war Mr. Brundage was a Whig in politics but since that event has voted with the Republican party. He is an honest, industrious man and is respected by all. Mrs. Brundage is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887