JOHN T. BRASEE, one of our four great lawyers of Lancaster, came to the bar here about the year 1833, moving from Gallipolis. He spent some years at Athens educating himself, and in the study of the law.
Mr. Brasee was an able, pains-taking lawyer, and was always thoroughly prepared when his cases were called. His recreation was farming and raising stock. He owned 1,200 acres of good land, and farmed it successfully. Mr. Brasee was an elegant gentleman, and generally, if not always, appeared upon our streets wearing a silk hat and black swallow-tailed coat. No better man or fairer man ever lived in Lancaster. No man was more thoroughly self-made. The only public office of ever held was that of state senator.
