Hugh Brady Hugh Brady ( July 29 , 1768 – April 15 , 1851 ) was an American general from Pennsylvania . He served in the Northwest Indian War under General Anthony Wayne , and during the War of 1812 . Following the War of 1812 , Brady remained in the military , eventually rising to the rank of major general and taking command of the garrison at Detroit . He also marginally participated in the 1832 Black Hawk War . Hugh Brady died an accidental death in 1851 when he was thrown from a horse - drawn carriage . Early life . Hugh Brady was born July 29 , 1768 , one of six sons and four daughters by John and Mary Brady , in Standing Stone , Huntingdon County , Pennsylvania . He is not to be confused with the current President of University College Dublin . Brady ' s father , Captain John Brady , was killed in 1776 , during the American Revolution in a battle with Native Americans . In May 1779 , the family moved to Brady ' s maternal grandfather ' s home in Cumberland County and stayed there until October 1779 . After a harsh winter , Brady spent the ensuing few years working the fields in the area with his brothers , often armed in case of conflict with Native Americans . Brady ' s mother died in 1783 , and his oldest siblings began to marry . Hugh Brady moved with his brother Samuel Brady to Washington County , Pennsylvania . Samuel married and Hugh stayed with his brother until 1792 , when he began his military career . The Brady and Quigley families . Hugh ' s father , Capt . John Brady , was born in 1733 near Newark , Delaware and died April 11 , 1779 near Muncy , Pennsylvania in an Indian attack . His mother was Mary Quigley Brady , who was born on August 16 , 1735 in Hopewell Township , Cumberland County , Pennsylvania and died October 20 , 1783 in Muncy , Lycoming County , Pennsylvania . Capt . John Brady and Mary Quigley Brady had thirteen children , three of whom died in infancy . Their children were Captain Samuel Brady , born 1756 ; James Brady , born 1758 ; William Brady , born 1760 and died in infancy ; John Brady , born March 18 , 1761 ; Mary Brady ( Gray ) , born April 22 , 1764 ; William Penn Brady , born August 16 , 1766 ; General Hugh Brady , twin , born July 27 , 1768 ; Jane Brady , twin , born July 27 , 1768 ; Robert Quigley Brady , born September 12 , 1770 ; Agnes Brady , born February 14 , 1773 and died November 24 , 1773 ; Hannah Brady ( Gray ) , born December 3 , 1774 ; Joseph Brady , born in August 1777 and died in infancy ; and Liberty Brady ( Dewart ) , born August 9 , 1778 . The Quigleys . Hugh ' s Irish maternal grandfather , James Quigley , was born in about 1710 and came to America from Ireland in 1730 . He settled on of frontier land , in what is today , Hopewell township , Cumberland County , Pennsylvania , close to present day Shippensburg , Pennsylvania . He built his wilderness home of logs close to the banks of Conodoguinet Creek . The Scottish - Irish were the earliest settlers on the Pennsylvania frontier of the early 18th century . As one author puts it . The Cumberland Valley was dotted with Scottish - Irish settlements throughout its entire area , a district which had become almost exclusively the possession of this racial group , with whom were mingled small numbers of English and German settlers constituting perhaps ten percent of the population . It was well adapted to farming , and the Scottish - Irish , in this early period , were mostly farmers , but later they developed a marked aptitude for trade and the professions . As pioneers , they were the advance guard blazing the trail through the wilderness far out on the frontier . They were the first line of defense against the savages , bearing the brunt of the Indian wars , and courageously enduring the hardships of pioneer life as the typical frontiersmen of provincial Pennsylvania . Step by step they had advanced along a perilous path , surmounting whatever difficulties arose , moving ever farther into the wilderness and reclaiming it to the new civilization . Little is known of James ' wife , Jeanette , except that she was likely of Scottish descent and probably was born in Hopewell Township in 1725 . However , according to Brady family historian , Belle Swope , " We are assured she was a devoted wife , a loving mother , and a wise counselor , or she would not have given to the world such brave and illustrious children . " In 1738 the log Middle Spring Presbyterian Church was erected three miles ( 5 km ) from their homestead , of which James and Jeanette Quigley became faithful members and in which they along with some of their children came to be buried in its old graveyard . James Quigley had to be and was ever vigilant to keep hostile Indians from killing his family and burning his home – a fate that befell many of his neighbors in those early days on the Pennsylvania frontier . In addition to successfully keeping his home and family safe , on March 25 , 1756 James Quigley was commissioned ensign in the Cumberland County Colonial Rangers . He served as at private in Revolutionary War . He died in 1782 . They had six children , who were all born on their Hopewell Township homestead , namely , John Quigley , born in August 1731 , Samuel Quigley , born in June 1733 , Mary Quigley ( who was the wife of Major John Brady , Hugh ' s mother ) , born August 16 , 1735 , Agnes Quigley , born in March 1737 or 1738 , Martha Quigley , born in July 1741 and Robert Quigley , born in 1744 , who married Mary Jacob . Robert Quigley eventually ended up living on the Quigley Homestead , at Quigley Bridge , Hopewell Township , Cumberland County , Pennsylvania . Robert Quigley and Mary Quigley Brady remained very close throughout their lives . The Bradys . As to the Brady grandparents of General Hugh Brady , Belle Swope states , " No family of pioneers was more conspicuous in the early history and settlement of the country than the Bradys . " Hugh Brady was born in 1709 in County Cork , Ireland . Hannah ' s maiden name was McCormick . She was born on January 3 , 1709 in Dublin , Ireland . After immigrating from Ireland , the Bradys first lived in the American colony of Delaware where they were they married in 1733 . They are said to have moved to frontier Pennsylvania on the urging of prosperous friends who told them that good land was readily available . Hugh and Hannah Brady moved to the Scottish - Irish Presbyterian community on the banks of Conodoguinet creek around 1733 , where they established a homestead close to where the Quigleys had already settled . They thereby became near neighbors of and fellow church members with James and Jeanette Quigley . They had nine children , Major John Brady ( General Hugh Brady ' s father ) , born in 1733 in Delaware , Samuel T . Brady born in 1734 , Joseph Brady born in 1735 , Hugh Brady born in 1738 , William Robert Brady , born in 1740 in Cumberland County , Pennsylvania , Margaret Brady born in 1742 , Mary Brady born in 1745 , Ebenezer Brady born in 1750 and James Brady born in 1753 . All of their children , except Major John Brady were likely born in Hopewell Township , Cumberland County , Pennsylvania . Hannah Brady died in 1776 in Cumberland County , Pennsylvania . Hugh Brady died on May 26 , 1787 , also in Cumberland County , Pennsylvania . As are the Quigleys , they are also buried in the Middle Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery , Cumberland County , Pennsylvania . Military career . Early career . Brady was first inducted into the military with a commission from George Washington as an ensign in General " Mad " Anthony Wayne ' s army in 1792 and placed in a rifle company under the command of Captain John Crawford . By 1794 , Brady rose to the rank of lieutenant , and fought with Wayne in the Northwest Indian War . Brady participated in the decisive Battle of Fallen Timbers , which resulted in the Treaty of Greenville . Following the war , in 1796 , he left the military , albeit temporarily , and returned to Virginia to visit the widow of his brother , Captain Samuel Brady . His brother had settled in Ohio County , Virginia and after visiting his widow there , Hugh Brady decided to return home to see his family in Sunbury , Pennsylvania . He arrived there , after further stops in Virginia and Kentucky , in 1797 . He remained in Sunbury until , during the winter of 1798 – 99 he was appointed a captain in a militia raised during the administration of President John Adams . The militia was disbanded less than two years later and Brady went about improving a plot of land , with his brother William , about from Pittsburgh along the Mahoning River . Brady married Sarah Wallace and remained on the plot until 1807 . War of 1812 . In 1807 Brady moved to Northumberland County , Pennsylvania and remained there until 1812 . In 1812 he received a commission from President Thomas Jefferson and once again rejoined the ranks of U . S . military officers . He was given command of the 22nd Infantry Regiment and saw action at the Battle of Chippawa and the Battle of Lundy ' s Lane , where he was severely wounded . The wounds ended his service during the War of 1812 . Brady would remain in the military after the war , until his death in 1851 . In Michigan . In 1815 Brady was appointed Colonel Commandant to the 2nd Infantry Regiment based at Sackett ' s Harbor , New York . In 1822 , Colonel Brady and five companies of the 2nd Infantry established Fort Brady on the site of the French stockade Fort Repentigny ( 1751 ) , along the St . Mary ' s River at Sault Sainte Marie , Michigan Territory , near Lake Superior . The outpost became an important defense structure in the upper Michigan frontier . In 1857 , most of the soldiers at Fort Brady were withdrawn and transferred to Fort Snelling , Minnesota . Brady rose in rank to brigadier general later that same year , after ten years service . Brady had command of the garrison at Detroit by 1828 . In late April 1832 the Black Hawk War began between Sauk war chief Black Hawk ' s British Band and the Illinois state and Michigan Territorial Militia . Brady left Michigan Territorial Capital for Fort Winnebago , near present - day Portage , Wisconsin . Brady was Commandant of the Department of the Upper Great Lakes at the time and was accompanied by one aide . Brady , having seen combat in the 1790s with Wayne and during the War of 1812 , was of the opinion that the Sauk could be easily defeated with only a few companies of soldiers . Brady was given command of two companies and set out to rendezvous with General Henry Atkinson , overall commander , in northern Illinois . Much of Brady ' s overall involvement in this conflict was peripheral . On the afternoon of June 8 , 1832 , Henry Dodge and his men , including James W . Stephenson , proceeded to Kellogg ' s Grove and buried the victims of the St . Vrain massacre . That night Stephenson returned to Galena , Illinois , while Dodge moved to Hickory Point where he remained overnight . The next morning Dodge set out for Dixon ' s Ferry , where he camped with General Brady . On June 11 , Dodge escorted Brady to the mouth of the Fox River to confer with Atkinson . Dodge left the conference with clear authority from Atkinson to deal with the violence in the mining region . Hugh Brady set out for Fort Hamilton , with the brigade commanded by Alexander Posey and his two companies of regular s , on June 20 . Brady was eventually given a larger force but was stricken with dysentery in July and did not participate further in the war . Five years after the Black Hawk War , in 1837 , Brady was given command of Military Department No . 7 , headquartered in Detroit . He remained in the position for seven years , during which time he was in command over the removal of several Native American tribes as well as an incident known as the " Patriot War " . When the U . S . - Mexican War broke out , Brady was too old to join the troops in the field but he assisted by helping to raise troops and equipment and shipping it to the war zone . In 1848 , three years before his death , Brady was promoted to the rank of major general . Late life and death . Hugh Brady died an accidental death in Detroit on April 15 , 1851 . Brady was at the helm of a horse - drawn carriage , when the vehicle became entangled in telegraph wires . The wires , lowered for repairs , caused the horses to panic . In the panic , Brady was thrown from the carriage and fatally injured . He died in the presence of his pastor , Dr . ( Rev . ) George Duffield .