Joseph Bancroft Bredin and Mary J. Spear

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Husband Joseph Bancroft Bredin ^{1 2}

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           Born: 24 Dec 1846 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 2 3
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           Died: 17 Oct 1907 4
         Buried:  - North Cemetery, Butler, Butler Co, PA

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         Father: Judge John Bredin (1794-1851) 5
         Mother: Nancy McClelland (1809/1811-1881/1882) 6 7 8 9

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Wife Mary J. Spear ¹⁰

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           Born: 1849
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           Died: 1926
         Buried:  - North Cemetery, Butler, Butler Co, PA

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         Father: William L. Spear (1811-1872) 11 12
         Mother: Matilda E. Spang (Abt 1815-1862) 13

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Children

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1 M James Bredin ¹⁴

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         Spouse: Grace Volis (      -      ) 14

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2 M Norman Bredin ¹⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Bancroft Bredin

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His studies and his occupations were varied. Thus, after having been a student of the Butler Academy, of the Pennsylvania and Michigan State Agricultural Colleges, he studied medicine with his brother, Dr. Stephen Bredin, and attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He then engaged in business as a druggist in the States of Iowa and Minnesota. Finally, however, he read law with George B. White, and was admitted to the Butler County bar in 1875. [HBC 1883, 73]

He attended the schools of Butler, PA, and later took courses at the State Agricultural Colleges of Pennsylvania and of Michigan. He then took up the study of medicine with his brother, Dr. Stephen Bredin, and attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. Later he went into bus­iness as a druggist, conducting a drug store in Minnesota, but later returned to Butler and then turned his whole attention to the study of law, his leaning in this di­rection being an inheritance, fifteen mem­bers of the Bredin family having been members of the Butler bar. Mr. Bredin read law with George E. White and was admitted to the bar in 1875 and continued in the practice of law until his death. Like his father, he was a man of versatile tal­ent, and his many-sided education but added to his brilliancy in his profession. In the trial of his cases, Mr. Bredin was noted for his fearless attitude and devo­tion to his clients. So well known was his personal integrity, however, that never a cloud rested upon his professional suc­cess.
From his father Mr. Bredin inherited a farm, a beautiful tract of 135 acres, which was lo­cated just outside of the borough of But­ler. Hay was the principal crop produced. There was a valuable gas well on the farm as well.

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 51, 73.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 644.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 73.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 255, 644.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 50.

6 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 492.

7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 51.

8 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 749.

9 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 806.

10 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 664, 1044.

11 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 62.

12 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1043.

13 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 745.

14 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 664.