L. W. Breyfogle
L. W. Breyfogle was born in Delaware, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1836. When William Penn, about 1681, advertised his lands for sale, asking forty shillings besides a perpetual quit-rent of one shilling for every one hundred acres, his great-great grandfather emigrated from Switzerland, and bought land of Penn in Berks County, Pa., as the terms were liberal and unlimited freedom of conscience and the right to be governed by laws enacted by themselves were secured to the people. When improving he employed Indians to carry rails down the mountains to the valley. The father of the subject of this sketch, Israel Breyfogle, was born in Berks co., Pa., in 1800; emigrated to Ohio in ’33; and came to Johnson co. in ’66, and located where he now resides in ’67. He was united in marriage in ’60 to Miss Elizabeth M. Shaw, of Denmark, Ohio; she died in August, ’66, and in October ’67 he married Miss Laura A. Pennock, of this county.
Mr. B. has a fine farm, well improved and stocked, and gives his undivided attention to raising stock and grain. He is one of the solid men of the county—strictly honest, industrious—and esteemed by all who know him. A view of his residence will be seen on page 85 of this work.
Atlas Map of Johnson County, Kansas, E. F. Heisler and Co., 1874, p. 55.
