BIO: Albert A. REDELIN, Centre County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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  A. A. REDELIN, M.D., a leading physician of Boalsburg, whose 
professional reputation and social acquaintance extend beyond the 
bounds of Centre county, was born in Philadelphia, February 28, 1869, a 
son of Charles and Ella (Bishop) Redelin. The father was a native of 
Sweden, born in Tidhola, near Stockholm, and for twenty years was a sea 
captain.
  In 1865 he emigrated to the United States, and was employed in 
rigging vessels in Philadelphia, when he met Miss Ella Bishop, who 
became his wife January 1, 1867. She was a daughter of an Adams county 
(Penn.) farmer. In 1871 the parents removed to Mifflin county, this 
State, where the father became foreman of the Burnham Steel Works, but 
was killed by a fall from some rigging, in 1882. The family circle 
included seven children, namely: Louisa, born in September, 1868, died 
in infancy; A. A. is the second; J. S., born in 1872, is a machinist in 
Mifflin county; Sarah M., born in 1874, is at home; Anna, born in 1876, 
is also with her mother; Charles, born in 1878, died in infancy; and 
Gertrude, born in 1881, is at home.

COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.  493

  The primary education of our subject was received in the public 
schools of Lewistown, Penn., and in the academy of that place he 
completed his literary course. In 1890 he entered Jefferson Medical 
College, at Philadelphia, from which institution he was graduated in 
the class of 1893, but in the meantime had served as bookkeeper in the 
Burnham Steel Works during his vacations, and in that way earned the 
money with which to pay his expenses through college. He began practice 
in Burnham with Dr. McKim, but in 1893 located in Boalsburg. Although 
he came into active competition with older physicians of large 
experience, he soon gained the public confidence, and has now a 
practice which might well be envied by many who have been much longer 
in business than he. He has been a close student of the profession, and 
his broad knowledge and devotion to the interests of his patients have 
won him a skill and gained him a reputation that is indeed enviable.
  Dr. Redelin was married January 12, 1892, to Miss Clara Kreig, fifth 
in the family of six children born to Joseph and Elizabeth Kreig, of 
Yeagertown, Mifflin county, where the father was engaged in the 
manufacture of axes. The Doctor and his wife have two interesting 
children: Albert N., born April 15, 1893; and Catherine A., born 
November 4, 1895. The family occupy a pleasant home on Main street, and 
hold a high position in the social circles of the community. 
Politically, Dr. Redelin is an earnest Democrat, and is secretary of 
the Boalsburg school board. He is a prominent member of the Centre 
County Medical Society of Bellefonte. In religious faith he is also an 
active member of the Lutheran Church, in which he is now serving as 
class leader.

1900 Rush Township, Schuylkill County census -
Albert A. Redelin, 30 
Clara W. Redelin, 27 
Albert N. Redelin,, 7 
Katherine E. Redelin 4 
Elizabeth Kreig, 30