John C. Breading and Elma Brownfield
Husband John C. Breading 1 2 3
Born: 5 Aug 1851 - Luzerne Twp, Fayette Co, PA 1 3 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Maj. Clark Breading (1806-1883) 1 3 4 Mother: Hettie Jane Roberts (1795-1868) 1 3
Marriage: 13 Aug 1871 or 1873 1 5
Wife Elma Brownfield 2 5
AKA: Ella Brownfield 1 Born: Christened: Died: Aft 1912 Buried:
Father: Nathaniel Brownfield (1810-1896) 1 5 6 Mother: Elma Mitchell (1812- ) 6
Children
1 M Clark Breading 1 5
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Unknown ( - )
2 F Hettie Breading 1 5
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Alfred C. Stafford ( - ) 5
3 M Frank B. Breading 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Unknown ( - )
4 M Nathaniel M. Breading 1 5
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
5 F Elma Breading 7
Born: Christened: Died: when six years old - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
General Notes: Husband - John C. Breading
He attended the Tuscarora Academy; leaving school, he came home to engage with his father in the drug business in 1872. In 1879 he sold out his store and bought a farm near Uniontown, Pennsylvania. In 1885 he returned to Uniontown and again engaged in the mercantile business.
Until he was seventeen years of age he lived on his father's farm, obtaining his education in the public schools, attending the Davidson School, later Merrittstown Academy, and the Tuscarora Academy, near Philadelphia. He became a druggist and for many years was in business in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1896 moving to Pittsburgh. Four years later he established in the real estate business at Bellevue, Pennsylvania, conducting in connection therewith insurance dealings, owning considerable property.
As a Republican he was a member of the Uniontown Council, and served in the same capacity in Bellevue for five years, in 1912 and 1913 as president of that body. He held the thirty-second degree in the Masonic Order, belonging to Bellevue Lodge, No. 530, Free and Accepted Masons, Bellevue Chapter, No. 286, Royal Arch Masons, Allegheny Commandery, No. 35, Knights Templar, and Pittsburgh Consistory. He and his family attended the Methodist Episcopal Church.
General Notes: Wife - Elma Brownfield
Bellevue, Allegheny Co, PA
1 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 147.
2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 39.
3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 544.
4 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 651.
5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 545.
6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 38.
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John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 454.
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