James Campbell Brandon and Kathleen Walker
Husband James Campbell Brandon 1 2 3 4
Born: 17 Jul 1884 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: 1979 Buried: - North Cemetery, Butler, Butler Co, PA
Father: Washington D. Brandon (1847-1953) 4 5 6 7 8 9 Mother: Clara Bell Campbell (1851-1925) 10 11
Marriage: 11 Jun 1914 12
Wife Kathleen Walker 12
Born: 1887 Christened: Died: 1973 Buried: - North Cemetery, Butler, Butler Co, PA
Father: William Walker ( - ) 12 Mother: Mary M. McCarrier ( -Bef 1927) 12
Children
1 M Oliver David Brandon 12
Born: 29 Feb 1916 12 Christened: Died: in infancy Buried: - North Cemetery, Butler, Butler Co, PASpouse: Did Not Marry
2 M J. Campbell Brandon, Jr. 12
Born: 4 Mar 1918 12 Christened: Died: Buried:
3 F Mary Virginia Brandon 12
Born: 1 Jan 1921 12 Christened: Died: Buried:
4 M John Welsh Brandon II 12
Born: 18 Oct 1926 12 Christened: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - James Campbell Brandon
He received his education in the Butler, Pennsylvania, grammar and high schools, graduated from Mercersburg Academy in 1902, and Princeton University in the class of 1906 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and attended Harvard Law School, 1906-1908, but did not complete his course and take his degree. He was admitted to the bar in 1909 and formed a partnership with his father, under the firm name of Brandon & Brandon, which conducted an extensive general law practice. Mr. Brandon was a member of the bar of the Supreme and Superior Courts and the United States District Court. During the World War Mr. Brandon was engaged in work with the American Expeditionary Forces under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association, as a secretary, serving in Camp Hancock, Georgia, with the Pennsylvania National Guard, Twenty-eighth Division, from September, 1917, until March, 1918, then served as secretary on the U. S. S. Transport "City of Exeter." He was later transferred to the Second Division, Regular Army, and was with the Sixth U. S. Marines at Belleau Wood. In July, 1918, he was again attached to the Twenty-eighth Division, where he served as division secretary in the charge of the Y. M. C. A. personnel activities during the Vesle River drive, and Chateau Thierry, Meuse-Argonne, and on the Toul sector. After the armistice was signed he transferred to Paris as associate general field secretary, and then was transferred to the Army of Occupation as chief secretary in charge of all its Y. M. C. A. activities, with headquarters at Coblenz, Germany. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Committee of the Y. M. C. A. and of the National Council.
Mr. Brandon was a member of the Butler County, Pennsylvania, and American Bar Associations. He attended the historic meeting of the American, Canadian and English Bar Associations in London in July, 1924. He was a member of the Sterling Club of Butler, the Butler Country Club, the Union Club of Pittsburgh, the Princeton Club of Western Pennsylvania, University Club of Pittsburgh, and fraternally was affiliated with Victory Lodge, No. 694, Free and Accepted Masons, and held the thirty-second degree in New Castle Consistory. He served as president of the Y. M. C. A. of Butler for six years. In the First Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member, Mr. Brandon served as elder, and also as superintendent of the Sunday school. He was a Republican and in 1923 was a candidate for judge. One of Mr. Brandon's recreations was golf. In 1926 he won the golf championship of the Butler Country Club, which he had held several times previously. [HBC 1927, 816]
1 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 712.
2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 106.
3 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 816.
4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 54.
5 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 71.
6 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 711.
7 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 912.
8 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 808.
9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 105.
10 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 701, 712.
11 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 809.
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C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 817.
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