BRADDOCK  , a

borough of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Monongahela river, to m . S.E. of Pittsburg . Pop . (189o) 8561; (1900) 15,654, of whom 5111 were foreign born; (1910 census) 19,357 . Braddock is served by the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore & Ohio, and the Pittsburg & Lake Erie railways . Its chief industry is the manufacture of steel especially steel rails; among its other manufactures are pig-iron, wire rods, wire nails, wire bale ties, lead pipe, brass and electric signs, cement and plaster . In 1905 the value of the borough's factory products was $4,199,079 . Braddock has a Carnegie library . Kennywood Park, near by, is a popular resort . The municipality owns and operates the water-works . Braddock was named in honour of the English general Edward Braddock, who in 1755 met defeat and death near the site of the present borough at the hands of a force of French and Indians . The borough was first settled at the close of the 18th century, and was incorporated in 1867 .