General Notes

Occupation: Fraktur Artist and Farmer

Religion: Mennonite

Jacob Brubacher, the son and Fraktur artist, apparently retired from farming in 1786, allowing his son Jacob to assume management.

Unfortunately, a trade for the Fraktur artist was never indicated on the lists. We can assume that he spent his time farming his land and teaching during at least some of the winters. He wrote his own will in 1790, leaving his plantation to his son and listing his children, He made no mention of a wife in the will so that she had probably already died.

The will of Hans Jacob Brubacher II was probated September 18,1802.
Hans Jacob Brubacher was almost certainly buried in a family cemetery on his farm- a cemetery " in early times known as Brubacher's, now " Shroder's" Today the cemetery is no longer part of the farm.

Hans Jacob Brubacher is among the earliest recognized Frakturs creators. He continued producing for a fifty-year span. His Fraktur is simple in design, tending to geometrical shapes, but is sometimes colorful. His handwriting over the years is almost unchanged--a small, upright, distinctive script. Hans Jacob, who signed most of his works, has shown what Mennonites at such an early time could do.