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STEPHEN LOWRY COLLINS BREDIN, son of Judge John Bredin of Butler and grandson of George McClelland of Venango county, was born in Butler in 1834. 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 Catharine, the third daughter of George Sloan, of Hanoverton, Columbiana county, Ohio, and settled in his native place, Butler, 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 has for six years continued to practice in the place where he first read medicine, contented with the confidence and esteem of its people, who have extended to him a kindly welcome.
History of Venango County, Pennsylvania
: its past and present, including its aboriginal history, the French and
British occupation of the country, its early settlement and subsequent
growth, a description of its historic and interesting localities, its rich
oil deposits and their development, sketches of its cities, boroughs,
townships, and villages, neighborhood and family history, portraits and
biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc.,
etc. .
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