Ferdinand A. Brader

Ferdinand Arnold Brader is known for his large detailed pencil drawings of farms and other dwellings in rural Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Ferdinand Brader was born in Kaltbrunn, St. Gallen, Switzerland, the son of Johann Baptist Brader and Anna Maria Steiner. On August 28, 1860 he married Maria Katherina Karolina Glaus of Benken, St. Gallen and their son Carl Ferdinand was born December 20, 1864. Ferdinand Arnold Brader emigrated to Pennsylvania in the United States sometime in the early 1870s.

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