JOHN BRADY
JOHN BRADY, farmer, Section 28, P. O. Monticello, was born in Indiana County, Pa., July 10, 1816, and there for some twenty years he carried on a large stock farm, and was also engaged in dealing in live stock, etc. He came to Kansas in April, 1865, and located in Johnson County on his present farm. He had at first 160 acres, but disposed of eighty acres a few years ago. His land is all improved, and he has a good fruit orchard and grapery. Mr. Brady also owns forty acres in Section 19, Township 12, Range 23, and a farm of 160 acres in Dickinson County, this State. He was elected a member of the Johnson Board of County Commissioners in 1866, and re-elected in 1868, and during the last term of membership was Chairman of the Board. He was elected Trustee of Monticello Township in the spring of 1878, and served one year. He was married in Centre County, Pa., in 1844, to Catherine S. Lee, and they have nine children.
From William G. Cutler, History of the State of Kansas, first published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.
