Rash's Surname Index
Notes for John BREDIN
[Written by his grandson George Sloan Bredin]
John Bredin was born in 1784, and died May 21, 1851. His father brought his family over the mountains to Butler in 1802, one son settling on his way at Carlisle, PA. A sister of his father was reputed to have come over from Ireland later and to have failed to find and rejoin the family. One of her descendants was Mrs. W. J. Brundred of Oil City, PA, and another was a contractor in Kentucky.
His father purchased a farm in Butler Co., of 300 acres, and preference to one of 800 acres at the same price, at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongehela rivers, now Pittsburgh.
While still a boy (age 16), John secured a clerkship in the Butler County court house (walking three miles to work) which naturally led him to the legal profession. He developed a remarkable memory for names and faces amd was said to know personally (through contacts in the Prothonotary's office, where he was clerk) "every man worth knowing" in the entire county.
He rode circuit with the other lawyers, a stirring life of gaming, drinking and adventure. He was very ambitious and accumulated weath rapidly, mostly farmland. As an instance of his enterprise, he secured permission to put a weighing scales on the public square or "Diamond", the key to which was kept in his house which fronted on the public square or "Diamond." A box was positioned in the scales to receive the fees. Anybody and everybody tended these scales and the profit was about $200 annually.
Appted judge in 1831.
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