Dr. Nathaniel Bedford and Jane Ormsby

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Husband Dr. Nathaniel Bedford ^{1 2 3}

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           Died: 21 Mar 1818 1
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Wife Jane Ormsby ³

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           Born: 1769 - Fredrigal Place, Bedford, Bedford Co, PA 3
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           Died: 8 Jul 1790 3
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         Father: John Ormsby (1720-1805) 4
         Mother: Jean McAllister (1747-1799) 5 6

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Nathaniel Bedford

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He was the first practicing physician in what is now Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Bedford came to Pittsburgh as a surgeon in the British army, but, attracted by the promise of the place as a good one for a physician, resigned his position in the army, and forthwith opened his "shop." He is represented as having been well educated and of polished manners, but very dressy, wearing ruffled shirt-fronts and wristbands. He must have succeeded well in his profession, for he acquired a large tract of land on the South Side, comprising what became the Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth wards of the city, or what was comprised within the old boroughs of Birmingham and St. Clair. At one time, almost directly under the track of the South Twelfth street inclined railway, an antique wine-urn was to be seen; storm-beaten and weather-stained, it marked the last resting-place of Dr. Nathaniel Bedford. It was erected to his memory by the Freemasons, of which body he was a prominent member.

He laid out the original town of Birmingham in the autumn of 1811. The doctor was from Birmingham, England, and named the new town in honor of his native city. He was a resident for some time of Pittsburgh, living near the Allegheny River, just below the garrison, or Fort Fayette. He removed to Birmingham in 1814, where he lived until his death.

1 —, History of Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1876), Pg 140.

2 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part I (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 651.

3 Mary Catherine McAllister, Descendants of Archibald McAllister (Harrisburg, PA: Scheffer's Printing & Bookbinding House, 1898), Pg 36.

4 Mary Catherine McAllister, Descendants of Archibald McAllister (Harrisburg, PA: Scheffer's Printing & Bookbinding House, 1898), Pg 35.

5 Editor, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 424.

6 Mary Catherine McAllister, Descendants of Archibald McAllister (Harrisburg, PA: Scheffer's Printing & Bookbinding House, 1898), Pg 10.