A Captain in the 149th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. Discharged March 30 1863.
He was chief engineer of the Tioga Fire Department.
He was Tioga County treasurer at the time of his death.
Death of Thomas B. Bryden - - on Sunday from the injuries sustained in an accident of the 20th ult. He was born at Halldykes, near Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Sept. 4, 1830. He left and came to America in the year 1850. Subsequently he obtained a knowledge of Civil Engineering (from) his elder brother, James Bryden, now dec'd, in surveying lands of the Bingham Estate. In 1856, his brother died and he accepted the position of surveyor for the estate. In 1857, he was married to Miss Buelah Straight, who with one child survives him. In 1862 he entered the service as Captain of a Company of Volunteers. His company was on duty in and around Washington until 1863. When Mr. Bryden retired from the service. In 1870, he entered the employ of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company for 2 years. He then returned to his old position in the Bingham Estate Office, and left there April last to become surveyor of the Pa. Joint Lumber and Land Co. The funeral was attended from Mr. Bryden's late residence on Central.