Dist Atty in Bethlehem. Lived in Fountain Hill.

J. Davis Brodhead, was born in Easton, Northampton County, January 12, 1859. In 1865 he accompanied his mother to Bethlehem, where he was reared to manhood. For a year he attended Georgetown College, the Moravian school, and afterward was a student for two years in Seaton Hall, N. J. In 1877 he entered Yale College, where he took a two-years classical course. His literary studies completed, he spent the years 1879-81 in travel through the United States, principally in the South. Nor have his travels been limited to this country, as about 1889 he made a tour of Europe, visiting the principal points of interest in England, Scotland and the Continent.

On commencing his active career our subject concluded to study law, and as a tutor secured Judge John B. Storm, of Strasburg, ex-Member of Congress. He was admitted to the Bar at Easton in 1880, at once locating at South Bethlehem, where he has since been engaged in practice. For ten years he has been Borough Solicitor, and in 1889 was elected District Attorney on the Democratic ticket, serving from January 30, 1889, to 1892. One of the original incorporators of the Easton Transit Company, of which he is now Attorney, he is also Assistant Attorney for the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and Resident Counsel for the E. P. Wilbur Trust Company. The pleasant home of Mr. Brodhead is located on Fountain Hill. His wife, who is a native of New York, was formerly Miss Cecile Harvier, their marriage being celebrated in New York City in 1883 In 1892 Mr. Brodhead was elected a delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago, and the same year was a delegate to the State Convention.