BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO "History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890. Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater. Pages 571-572. PHILIP BRAILLY, senior member of the firm of P. Brailly & Son, was born in Beaumont, departement of Seine et Oise, France, in 1830. He was educated in his native land and afterward served an apprenticeship to his father; he then entered the Royal School of Paris, taking a course in drawing and architecture, graduating in the same in 1845. Following his trade in France for four years, he then came to this country in 1849, and located at Naovoo, Ill., remaining there for three years, he then went to Washington, D. C., and engaged in stair building, but soon went to Alexandria, and worked at his trade. After working in Richmond, Va., and several other places, Mr. Brailly, in 1859 came to Bellaire, and opened a shop which he operated until after the war. In 1869 he erected a factory for the manufacture of caskets, which he still owns. The firm is about to introduce the manufacture of carriages to the exclusion of the casket manufacturing. In 1876 Mr. Brailly patented a metallic corner for caskets, and now manufactures them, he has also patented an improved brake for wagons and carriages, and is making his arrangements to enlarge the works so as to comprehend the manufacture of the different articles in which he is interested, but his specialty will be the making of carriages and hacks. In 1851 Barbara A. Noel became his wife, and their union has been blessed by the birth of four children: Ernest E., Charles B., Matilda E. and William N. Charles is deceased. Mrs. Brailly was a resident of Nauvoo, Ill. She died in 1888, leaving the family to mourn the loss of a devoted wife and loving mother. Mr. Brailly is a member of the Catholic church, and has always been deeply interested in politics, being prominently identified with the republican party. He has made a host of friends since his coming to Bellaire.