Source: 'Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of The Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania' Published by The Lewis Publishing Company; 1905 (page 232-233)

"J. DAVIS BRODHEAD, district attorney and a most capable lawyer of South Bethlehem, was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1859.
He traces his ancestry back to Daniel Brodhead, the progenitor of the family in the new world. His history appears elsewhere in this work."…..

"J. David Brodhead received his education in Georgetown (D. C.) College, the Moravian school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in Seaton Hall, New Jersey, and in Yale College, where he took a classical course covering two years. He spent the years 1879 to 1881 in travel through the United States, principally in the south. He prepared for the profession of the law under Judge John B. STORM, of Stasburg, ex-member of congress, and was admitted to the bar in 1880, the year in which he attained his majority. He at once entered upon practice in South Bethlehem, in which he has since been actively engaged. He served as district attorney from 1889 to 1893; and was borough solicitor for the long period of nineteen years. Aside from his profession he has had varied business interests in Bethlehem, and vicinity. He was one of the original incorporators of the Easton Transit Company, has served as president of the Bethlehem Consolidated Water Company from 1901 to the present time (1904), and is a director in several other corporations contributing to the commercial and industrial activity of the village and county. He is a stanch Democrat in politics, and active in political affairs. In 1892 he sat as a delegate in the Democratic nation convention which nominated Grover Cleveland for his second presidential term, and gave to that distinguished statesman a hearty and effective support. He was alternate-at-large to the Democrat national convention of 1904.
Mr. Brodhead married, in 1883, Miss Cecile HARVIER, a daughter of Calix and Cecile HARVIER, the ceremony being performed in New York, of which city the bride was a native. Two daughters have been born of this union, Ethel and Leonie, both in Bethlehem. The family home is situated on Fountain Hill, South Bethlehem."

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000860
BRODHEAD, Joseph Davis, 1859-1920

BRODHEAD, Joseph Davis, (son of Richard Brodhead), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Easton,Northampton County, Pa., January 12, 1859; attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pa.; elected district attorney of Northampton County in 1889; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1892 and 1904; elected to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1909); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1908; resumed the practice of law in South Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pa.; appointed judge of the courts of record of Northampton County in 1914; died in Washington, D.C., April 23, 1920; interment in Easton Cemetery, Easton, Pa.

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