Dr. Stephen Lowry Collins Bredin and Catharine Sloan

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Husband Dr. Stephen Lowry Collins Bredin ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: Feb 1834 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 2 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 1918
         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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       Marriage: 1859 4

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Wife Catharine Sloan ^{2 4}

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           Born: 1837
     Christened: 
           Died: 1920
         Buried:  - North Cemetery, Butler, Butler Co, PA

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         Father: George Sloan (      -      ) 2
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M Victor Bredin

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: when four years old
         Buried:  - North Cemetery, Butler, Butler Co, PA

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Nancy McClellan Bredin ^{3 10}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Dr. Seneca Egbert (1863-      ) 3 10
           Marr: 26 Sep 1888 - ? Venango Co, PA 3

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Stephen Lowry Collins Bredin

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His literary education was received at Union College, Schenectady, NY. He read medicine with an uncle, Dr. Snowden, in Franklin, and graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, in 1856. After spending several years in the West, he began the practice of his profession in Butler in 1861. His practice quickly became an extensive one, and has been, since the first three or four years, all that he could attend to. [WWC, 79]

He left the academy of the Reverend William White in 1852, sufficiently well advanced in classical and mathematical studies to enter the junior class of Union College, Schenectady, New York, in its palmy days, when the Reverend Eliphalet Nott was still its president. Leaving college he began the study of medicine with his uncle by the mother's side, Nathan­iel D. Snowden, and in 1856 graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He spent the subsequent summer in assisting Doctor Snow­den in his practice, enjoying the full fruits of the old doctor's life-long training and cultivation in the science of medicine. The next two or three years he spent in the West, at Rochester, Minnesota. In 1859 he married and settled in his native place, Butler, PA, assuming the duties of a physician and the care of the large practice of Doctor Lowman, who had gone to the army as a brigade surgeon. Though his health was much broken and he was not able to do much business for a few years, he soon began to realize the arduous duties of a physician attending to a wide circle of coun­try practice and compelled to minister to the wants of a large clientele of principally agricultural people. His health improving he was able to do this satisfactorily to himself and his people for twenty-two years in Butler. Feeling the necessity for calling a halt he embraced the opportunity offered by the failure in health of his cousin, Doctor S. Gustine Snowden, and came to Franklin to take the doctor's place while he went away to endeavor to find in rest and change a remedy for the disease with which he was fatally stricken. Enjoying rest from the arduous, wearing life of constant riding and exposure, Doctor Bredin continued to practice in the place where he first read medicine, contented with the confidence and esteem of its people, who extended to him a kindly welcome. [HVC 1890, 814]

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General Notes: Wife - Catharine Sloan

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from Columbiana Co, OH

1 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 51, 79.

2 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 814.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1128.

4 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 79.

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

8 Editor, 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 Ruby Jane (Bailey) McCord, Genealogy of the Phipps Family (Self-published), Pg 14.