Brady, Thomas J
soldier, lawyer, journalist, public official, was born Feb. 12, 1839, in Muncie, Ind. He received a common school education; taught school for several years in Muncie and vicinity; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1860. He entered the union army in 1861 as captain; was promoted major in 1862, and to a colonelcy in 1863; served throughout the civil war, and was mustered out of service with the last regiment, in 1865, as brevet brigadier-general, for long and meritorious service. He resumed the practice of law at Muncie, Ind., and became the publisher of the Muncie Weekly Times. In 1870 he was appointed United States consul at St.
Thomas, West Indies. In 1874 he was made chairman of the republican state central committee of Indiana; in 1875 was appointed supervisor of internal revenue; and in 1876 was appointed second assistant postmaster-general of the United States, and served until 1881, when he resigned.