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The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West, Volume 14, Western District 1786-1856, Compiled by Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, Global Heritage Press, Milton:
Marriages by Rev'd William Griffis, Wesleyan Methodist Minister (p. 120-128):
John Bedford, Jun'r, of Howard, to Catharine Brown, of Harwich. 10 Jan. 1845, by banns. Rev. Griffis. Wit. Martha Griffis and Cordeliar A. Pratt.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 407-408:
David Henry Bedford, proprietor of the Essex County Dairy, and a successful and experienced dairyman and stock dealer, is a prominent citizen of Windsor, who has descended from an old English family of importance.
     Robert Bedford, the great-grandfather of David H., was born in England in 1745. He became the first school teacher in the County of Kent, Ont. Prior to the American Revolution he settled in Pennsylvania, from which he moved to Ontario, as a United Empire Loyalist. His first location was on Lot 10, R.R., Chatham township, later settling on River St. Clair, near Port Lambton, thence moving to the Thames river, near Louisville. He and John Boyle and William Needsmore were the first white settlers in the County of Kent, on the Thames river, above Chatham. After his location at Louisville, Mr. Bedford engaged in farming until his death in 1842,, at the age of ninety-seven. He married Elizabeth Edwards, by whom he had the following children: John, Abe, Robert, William, James, David, Thomas, Fanny and Mary.
     John Bedford, son of Robert, was born in Chatham township in 1796, and he became a farmer and school teacher in his native county, where he died in 1869. He was twice married, first to Orpha Jones, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Hart) Jones, the former a native of a France, and the latter of New York State. Mrs. Mary (Hart) Jones and her brother were scalped by the Indians, and while she recovered, her brother died. To John Bedford and wife were born these four children: John, Mary Ann, Ira and Christiana. For his second wife John Bedford married Jane Sherman, and one son, Sherman, was born of this union.
     John Bedford (2), the eldest son of John, was born in 1824, in the County of Kent, and engaged in farming for some years after reaching his majority. He then removed to Chatham, where from 1850 to 1854 he was engaged in the grocery business, moving then to Thamesville, and being one of the first merchants to locate there. In 1877 he left Thamesville, and is now a resident of Sanilac, County, Michigan. In 1844 he married Catherine Brown, born in 1823, in Pennsylvania, who died in 1879, leaving the following children: David H., our subject; Maria, deceased wife of William Judson, of California; Alfred, of Alpena, Michigan; Mary Ann, wife of Dr. Crossett of Galesburg, Ohio; Maude, deceased wife of David Desmond, of Howard township; John, of the Detroit Dry Dock Company, of Detroit; and Fred, a farmer of Sanilac, Michigan.
     David Henry Bedford was born Jan. 27, 1850, at the old homestead in the County of Kent, and at the age of nineteen started out to make his own way in the world. He embarked in a general mercantile business in Ridgetown, where he continued five years, and then went into the grain business there, and at Thamesville, and continued two years in that line. Then for a few years he was a commercial salesman for a wholesale grocery firm. Removing to the County of Lambton, he purchased a farm in Dawn and Euphemia townships, which he operated until 1885, when he disposed of it, and bought another in Mersea township, County of Essex. In 1891 he also sold this property and purchased his present farm of seventy-two acres, adjacent to the city of Windsor, and other property in the city, with a view of starting a first-class diary. In this he has been very successful, and he keeps thiry cows, and markets his cream and milk in Windsor. He has one of the most productive farms of the County of Essex, and Mr. Bedford explains that his large dairy give him an annual amount of fertilizing material which he judiciously uses.
     Mr. Bedford takes an active interest in public affairs and has been a member of the council of Windsor for several years. He has been chairman of a number of important committees of the city. In 1891 he was census commissioner for the South Riding of the County of Essex. During his residence in County Kent he filled the position of auditor and in the County of Lambton was one of the county councillors. He is a man of reliability, and his fellow-citizens are quick to appreciate it. In fraternal matters Mr. Bedford is prominently identified, being past master of Lodge No. 111, A.F. & A.M., of Thamesville; and also the A.F. & A.M., of Florence. He is also a member of Wellington Chapter, No. 47, of Chatham, of Windsor Preceptory, No. 21, K.T.; and Monroe Council, No. 1, of Detroit.
     On Jan. 1, 1877, Mr. Beford married Miss Maude Roberts, daughter of Joseph Roberts, ex-warden of the County of Lambton, and the following children have been born to this union: Joseph Blake; Mabel, wife of James Ryckman, of St. Thomas, and they have one daughter, Irene; Lena, wife of Edward Howe, of Windsor; and John and Sidney, at home. Mr. and Mrs. Bedford are members of the Church of England. Politically he is a Conservative, although he does not allow his political feelings to be carried into municipal politics. Many public improvements are attributed to his zeal for the welfare of this his adopted. Mr. Bedford is the original promoter of the Windsor, Essex & Lake Shore electric railway, in which he is still interested. He is likewise a lover of athletic sports, in many of which he excelled, being a winner of several prizes on different occasions. In his younger days he was a baseball and cricket enthusiast.