Joshua Brattan

Brattan was the storekeeper of the Brattan-Taylor Store.^[2] He was also a farmer and landowner.^[2][3]

Brattan served in the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Somerset County, from 1822 to 1823.^[4] He was the sheriff of Somerset County in 1828.^[5][6]

Brattan served on the 1838 Democratic committee that nominated William Grason for Governor of Maryland.^[7]

Brattan owned the Brattan-Taylor Store and the Barren Creek Springs Hotel on Main and Branch streets in Mardela Springs, Maryland. He also owned a tract of land known as the "Ill Neighborhood" in Somerset County.^[2] In 1834, Brattan gave an acre of land to Presbyterian trustees to establish a school, cemetery and church between Barren Creek Mills and Barren Creek Springs in Mardela Springs. In 1842, the congregation built a church building and the cemetery was known as Barren Creek Cemetery.^[3]

Brattan married Anne Porter. Brattan had six sons: Anthony, Franklin, Joseph, Samuel, Lemuel Rush and James Thomas.^[1][2] His grandson was U.S. Representative Robert F. Brattan.^[8]

Brattan died on November 29, 1838.^[2]