My Genealogy Hound

JAMES C. BRYANT, farmer, post office Herron, is a son of Samuel and Grace (Marsh) Bryant, natives of Stratford-on-Avon, England, who emigrated to America in 1830, and settled in Lycoming county, Pa., where the father died about one year afterward. The mother came to Pittsburgh and joined her son James C., who had preceded them to America about three years. He was born in Stratford-on-Avon, England, July 7, 1813, and received his education in that country. When seventeen years of age he came to Pittsburgh, and served an apprenticeship of three years in the charcoal refining of iron, and followed that business until 1840, starting many of the refineries of those days. In 1840 he purchased his present farm on the line of Hampton and Shaler townships, and has since resided here. In 1836 he married Rachel, daughter of Maj. John and Jane (Ewing) Street, the mother a native of Chester county, but residents of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Bryant have four children living: Jane L. (wife of Isaac Dehaven, of this township), William Cullen (merchant of Pittsburgh), Milton C. (merchant of Allegheny), James S. (a farmer of Hampton township). Mr. Bryant has been school director of the township twenty-nine years, and justice of the peace for the past five years; he is a member of the Episcopal Church of Allegheny. Bryant Station, on the P. & W. R. R., is named after him.