History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 648.
[Harrison County]   [Cynthiana City and Precinct]

E. W. BRAMBLE, distiller; P. O. Lair's Station; was born in Hamilton
County, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1842, to A. L. and Deborah (Stiles) Bramble.  His
father was born in Pennsylvania, and floated down the Ohio River in a
flat boat to Hamilton County, O. [sic], with his parents, in 1806.  He
remained with his parents to the age of twenty-one, when he married,
bought a farm of his own, and with a bare supply of the simplest articles
of household furniture known to early settlers, all of which did not
make a two-horse wagon load, he drove from his paternal home to a little
cabin near where now stands the fine residences and homestead of our
subject.  His faithful wife and he entered upon their new life with that
loving courage which could only contemplate a life of unwearying industry.
In looking forward to the success not dream of the result they afterward
saw and experienced.  There was apparently nothing but work ahead, and at
it they went with a loving faith and earnest will which became their fixed
habit of life, and from which they never rested.  Their earlier labors were
in the rude forms of farming peculiar to that day.  The varied products of
their farm found their places in markets in city, regularly, on the leading
market days.  While this part of the work continued so systematically, it
did not by any means take all of Mr. Bramble's time or talents.  From the
earliest settlement of of the Miami valley the famous yield of is corn
found most steady absorption in hogs, and commerce in pork was a necessary
sequence.  In this Mr. Bramble embarked as soon as the trade opened.  He
became not only a great feeder of hogs and other stock, but also among
the earliest of drovers, slaughters, packers and dealers.  Not confining
his business to local operation, he was constantly handling stock at other
points, buying in and shipping from most of the great grazing and feeding
centers of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.  Of busy men he became about the
busies, not for a greed of grain, but because he had an instinct of
activity and a fondness for business.  Without an interest in the outward
forms of religion, he led a practically good life.  His friendships were
many, his acquaintance very large, and his taking away in February, 1875,
in the seventy-sixth year of his age, was widely regretted by all among
whom he was known.  E. W. Bramble lived with his parents until he was
twenty-eight years of age, where he received a good education and assisted
his father in all of his business.  In 1870 embarked on life's rugged
pathway by trading in Kentucky.  In 1873 he married Miss Loraine Megibben,
and in 1876 became a partner in the firm of Megibben, Bramble & Co., the
largest distillers of Harrison County.  He and wife are members of the
Baptist Church.  In politics he is a Democrat.

Bramble Stiles Megibben
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Hamilton-OH PA

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