During his youth he was sent to school in the "Irish Settlement," now the defunct Weaversville Academy, and on his way to and fro he passed the beautiful farm irrigated by the Catasauqua Creek. Some years later he purchased this fertile farm of two hundred forty-five acres, in Allen Township, from the estate of Peter Beisel, and took possession of it in 1832.

George Breinig died June 2, 1871, at the age of eighty years. He served as a member of the Building Committee of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. He was a strong, intelligent and self-reliant man.

Bio in The father of our subject (Simon) was also an agriculturist in Berks County, where he lived until 1832, and then, removing to Northampton County, purchased property which he cultivated until his decease, when eighty-one years of age. He was a good type of the self-made and self-educated man, and religiously was a member of the Lutheran Church. His wife, prior to her marriage, was Miss Polly Wetzel; she was born in Berks County and died many years ago. She was the daughter of Jacob Wetzel, now deceased, who was also a farmer of that locality.