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The Stories End
Despite years of disastrous experiences with notes, his and others, Eber kept on dealing in them. In 1867, for one example, he took a note for five hundred dollars, the signer promising to pay that amount to '' Eber Bradley or barer the some with interest.''
Their Uncle Eben Bradley, whom they knew well in Vermont and Ohio days, died on September 7 that year in Whitehouse, "Aged- 73Yrs. -3M. 18 Da." as one of the two memorial stones states. The other stone commemorates his activity in the War of 1812.
Grace Isabelle Bradley was born to Eber and Cyntha on September 28, 1869. The baby was named after Grace Bliss Coburn, a long-time family friend from Vermont, and Isabelle Frink, wife of a local minister. Little Grace Bradley was called "Belle" because, she said in later years, Mrs. Coburn did not want to be called "Big Grace" to distinguish her from "Little Grace."
By Census time in 1870, in Waterville Township (Whitehouse), Eber had broken the ice, reporting himself as a physician. He was 42, reported no real or personal estates although he, in actuality, owned both. His household consisted of Cyntha 36, William 13, Albert 10, Henry 5, Grace Isabelle 10 months, and Cyntha's mother 66.
Eventually, Eber revised his personal history to suit himself, stating that he had started practicing medicine and surgery at twenty-five, palpably incorrect, perhaps to meet the requirements of an 1868 Ohio law requiring certain formal medical education except for persons who had practiced medicine for ten years or more.'
During his doctoring years, he identified himself as a homeopathic practitioner with—to quote his own notes—expertise in "obstetrics, extracting teeth, doctoring children, burns, old sores and cancerous ulcerations (with an) average of 600 patients
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per year" and about nine home visits daily. He commonly prescribed
"golden seal root" for mouth cankers, turpentine and lard for chest
colds.
Considering the often uninformed state of the medical arts in those days, "Doctor" Bradley might have done about as much good, and not much more harm, as many more orthodox practitioners. Certainly he was remembered with admiration by many patients. In 1933, an old-time resident recalled his "heroic work during the scarlet fever epidemic of 1869-70."
Others in the 1870 Census were Hiram, thirty-four, farmer, wife Elizabeth, and two children, Edith and Frederic. Also in the vicinity were John Wesley Bradley, carpenter, and Roscious Bradley, farmer, with their families.
The same Census reported Eli Judson, sixty-six, owning his stove store in Williston although the Census taker spelled his name "Bladley." Real estate was placed at $2500, personal at $1000 for Census purposes. He and Sarah, sixty-nine, made up the entire household. Their home, located on one of two large lots they owned, was five or six residences distant from the Ezbon Sanfords. "E. J. Bradley's Stove Store, "on the main street, was no more than brisk two-minute walk from his home and within ten doors of both me Williston Academy and Town Hall 2
Charles, 35, and his second wife, Roseannah Creamer, 27, whom he had married in 1865, had moved to Jefferson Township in Fayette County, Ohio. In the Census report dated July 7, 1870, the family included Eli 9, Henry C. 2, and Abbe Lex 1 month. Charles' farming must have been prospering, his household including two female domestic servants and two farm laborers. It is a safe bet that he was also doing part-time ministry work although unreported in the Census forms.
Eli and Sally moved to Lucas County in 1870, remaining there until 1876. The Toledo City Directory 1874-75 lists him as a Bible agent with residence at 59 Vinton. Among the Bibles he sold was probably an impressive "Combination Bible," published by W. E. Bliss & Co., Toledo, 1875, a Prospectus for which was found among family papers in Nebraska.
The location of Vinton Street, where they lived, has not changed in over a hundred years although in 1877 it was a short block from
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the Wabash and Erie Canal and deadended at the Michigan Southern and Northern
Indiana Railroad 3 whereas in 1977 the street is a block from the
Anthony Wayne Trail Expressway and deadends at the tracks of the Penn Central.
A daughter, Lydia, was born to Eber and Cyntha in 1871. She lived until 1916, dependent, and taken care of by her sister Belle.
Around 1871, Minnie Marian taught school for a year or so in Troy where Albert and Mary had lived from about 1867 as he continued his trade as a molder.4 By January 1873, while Albert remained there, Minnie was in Ohio where she worked as an assistant to her brother Eber, sometimes writing letters in his name and signing them "Per M. M. Bradley." 5 Presumably for her own reference, she kept a notebook of homeopathic medical
words including these:
Anticeptics-Such medicines as resist putrification.
Infection-An unhealthy and poisonous composition formed during the
putrification process of dead organic matter.
Typhus-The nervous fever.
She had transfered her membership from a Troy church, in July 1872, to the First Presbyterian Church in Maumee, Ohio. 6 The Toledo Blade of Thursday, May 14, 1874, announced her marriage:
Dye-Bradley-At Westminster Church. Toledo, May 12, 1874, by Rev. H.M.Bacon, Rev. Henry B. Dye, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Maumee City, Ohio, and Miss M.M. Bradley, of Toledo. Troy, N.Y. and Burlington, Vt., papers copy.
Minnie, who had chosen her thirty-seventh birthday for her marriage date, was using "Martha" as her first name or only the initials "M. M." The request for out-of-town newspapers to copy was, incidentally, a widespread practice when papers freely picked up news items from other publications on their exchange list.
The Reverend Henry Blenas Dye's first wife, Phoebe Griggs, had died over a year before at thirty-nine, leaving him with their three children. His church, at 200 East Broadway in Maumee, built in 1836-37 and subsequently enlarged, was a simple frame structure surmounted with a square tower and wooden spire. 7
Dye's salary as Pastor rose to $1000 in 1876. The following year, when he asked to be released from the pastorate, he and Martha moved to the Presbyterian Church in Brownsville,
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Nebraska. This was the beginning of several moves from one pastorate to another until his retirement in 1907: Sidney, Iowa;
Sterling, Nebraska; Sioux City, Morrison, and Grundy Center, Iowa; and Saginaw, Michigan.
The Reverend and Mrs. Dye certainly read the Maumee Advertiser along with the Blade to keep up with the news. The issue of the Advertiser on May 21, 1874, a week after the Dye-Bradley marriage, was typical. There were ads for Dr. Clark who cured cancers, old sores, and removed tumors; Swan's Apothecary's Hall featured "Find old Kentucky Whiskies. . . for Medical purposes only;" Pat McGovern's livery stable boasted of a "Rig that will suit in every particular, Fast, Slow, or Medium, Pat keeps the best Horse Flesh;" and the Steamer "Cora Lock" made regular trips between Maumee and Toledo, via Perrysburg, requiring only an hour to an hour-and-a-half for a one-way trip.
Almira Farrington died in 1874 at seventy yours of age. Her son-in-law, with whose family she had lived for some twenty years, thought highly of Cyntha's mother. He wrote, "Mother Farrington was a very devoted virtuous woman."
His sister Minnie was also admired by Eber. When he and Cyntha had their last child, a daughter, in 1875-who lived only five years—she was named in honor of her Aunt Minnie and Charles' wife, Rose.
In the early 1870's, Charles and his family moved from Fayette County, Ohio to Seward County in Nebraska where he farmed and probably engaged in some church activities. Albert was still at the iron foundry in Troy when, in 1875, the lure of owning his own farm in Nebraska induced him and his wife to buy Charles' farm for $1420. 8 Charles moved farther west to Phelps County, Nebraska, where he bought more land and, we know, was a leader in his church.
Albert and Mary lived in a two-room house on their farm until 1898 when they built a larger residence. The year after settling in Nebraska, they were joined by his mother and father from Lucas County. By 1880, quarters must have been crowded in the
home with four adults as well as Albert and Mary's children. 8
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The 1880 Census reported Minnie, 42, and Henry Dye, 47, In Sidney, Iowa, where he was a minister. With teem were his son William, 18, and daughter Marietta,
14, named after her father's alma mater, Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio.
In Phelps County, Nebraska, Charles, 46, was a "County Superintendent," presumably of some church organization or function. Roseannah was 35. The children were Ell W. 19, Henry 12, Abbe Lex 10, and Ancel 2.
Living nearby, brother John C., forty-eight, was forming having left Vermont on some undetermined date in the '70's. His family consisted of his wife Mary (Mary Elizabeth, nicknamed "Lizzie"?) and twenty-one-year-old Myron Clyde.
In Whitehouse, Eber was doctoring in 1880, Cyntha keeping house, and the at-home children were Albert 20, Henry 16, Belle 10, Lydia 8, and Minnie 4. Their eldest. Will, was proving himself somewhat of a worry to his parents. Helefthome, he and brother Henry farmed together for a while, he worked with a circus or wild-west show for a period, and finally became a lumberjack.
Josiah Farrington was achieving a name for himself in western Missouri. An 1881 history of Carroll County extolled his public services as a Justice of the County Court and one of the area's leading merchants.9
With their high hopes disappointed in their oldest son, Eber and Cyntha sponsored their second-born, Albert Josiah, at twenty-three, to higher education at Ohio Normal College (Ohio Northern University in 1903), Ada, Ohio, for the 1882-83 term. He had been keeping books for his father, an assignment his Aunt Minnie had previously and which Belle was to take over later. All of the children shared the chore of rolling sugar mixtures into pills.
It is mostly likely that Albert was thinking about a career as a teacher, normal school attendance at the time being primarily vocational training. According to the University's archives, he attended Ohio Normal for ten weeks, getting grades of 100 in Penmanship, 90 in Mental Arithmetic, and 85 in Orthography, better known as Spelling.
The father of the individualistic "Eli-ites," as his son Henry had described them twenty-four years before, died at the
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Nebraska home of his son Albert on January 19, 1885, at eighty-one, a devout
and hard-working Christian throughout his long life.
None of the children was more individualistic than the eldest, Ebe4, personally, professionally, and politically. Self-anointed medical doctors with only on-the-job training were not that uncommon and he did enjoy a well deserved reputation for prodigiously hard work. He was also known for his generosity, giving food and supplies freely to needy patients. His children agreed as adults that he was not all that thoughtful of his own family, however, often giving away family necessities.
Politically, he was a maverick. In 1887, for one example, a checklist was made of the political inclinations of Whitehouse voters. There were 133 probable Democratic votes and 85 Republican, the latter party including Henry and A. J. A political offshoot called "Union Labor" had a mere eight adherents including, of course, Eber.
Will Bradley, at twenty-eight, was lumbering in May of 1885 when he wrote to twenty-year-old Henry S., urging that he join Will as quickly as possible. Writing from "Drummond," probably a temporary lumbering location in Minnesota, he wrote, "If we are agoing to make a stake we want to get at something else beside working for some person or Company." Will had just received a letter "from A. J. B.," whom both he and Henry often called "Jo," from his middle name of Josiah.1B
Henry did not decide on lumber jacking as his trade. Instead, in 1887, he married Jennie Catherine Parker, and settled down in Lucas County. They had two children, Minnie Maize (1889-1912) and Harley Edward, born on September 25, 1892.
In the late 1880's, Myron Clyde Bradley, the son of John C. Bradley and his first wife, Frances, was a civic leader in Holdrege, Nebraska. He took over the local paper, The Holdrege Daily Citizen for two years after being the paper's shop foreman. At the same time, he was chief of the local volunteer fire department and a member of the department's hose-cart running team. Although M. C. was cheated out of winning a race at a state meet in Kearney in 1887, or so his friends insisted, the team survived to appear in a national meet in Denver in 1889. 11
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Nearly half a century later, Myron Clyde participated in the great Century of
Progress exposition in Chicago, playing the part of a white-bearded Benjamin
Franklin in "Ye Olde Tyme Print Shop." 12
He never gave up the trade. When he died at ninety-one in Los Angeles, his occupation was given as "Editor," his business as "Printing." Throughout his adult life, he used "Clyde" or, more often, his initials, "M. C."
Hiram had quit farming by the late 1880's. He was in Toledo, working as a traveling agent for a cordage supply company, according to the 1888-89 City Directory.
Phelps County, Nebraska read about the activities of several family members in the Nebraska Nugget and the Holdrege Citizen during the 1886-1891 period. With family connections on the Citizen staff, the Bradleys did not lack for news coverage:
In 1886 John C. Bradley returned to Phelps County after ' 'passing a long spell of illness in Seward." He advertised in the papers as agent for the White Bronze Company, monuments and memorials, Des Moines, in 1886 and 1887.
In 1887, Eli Williamson Bradley called the Prohibition County Convention at which his father, Charles, represented his home Industry Precinct. When Eli lost a yearling colt, it was reported in the local press.
In 1889, John C. Bradley was secretary of the Citizen of which his sob, M.C., was editor until January 1, 1891.
With these appearances, John C. Bradley disappears from available records and recollections, a reasonable assumption being that he and his family left the area in the 1890's.
Willie, the precocious eldest son of Eber and Cyntha's, about whom his Uncle Myron had worried thirty years before, died as he was working as a lumberjack near Aitken, Minnesota, killed by a falling tree on February 22, 1889, four days before his thirty-second birthday. When his body was returned to Whitehouse for burial, letters from his nineteen-year-old sister Belle were found in the pocket of his lumbering clothes.
His younger brother, A. J., at twenty-nine, started on his thirty-year career with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company on March 2 5, 1889. He had married Clara (Caddie) May
Grimes, daughter of the Reverend Ezra Grimes, a fire-and-
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brimstone Methodist preacher, and Lucinda Walker Grimes on August 26, 1884.
Their three children were Frederic Carlton, born in 1885, Walker Farrington,
1893, and George Albert, 1898.
Employment with Metropolitan required frequent moves by the family. From Toledo, A. J. was transferred to Columbus, then Chillicothe, Columbus again, Parkersburg and Wheeling, West Virginia, and finally back to Toledo from 1900 to 1918 when he retired on pension to spend the rest of his life in his beloved Whitehouse."
On October 24,1891, Sarah Cooley Bradley died at ninety, near Staplehurst, Nebraska, at the home of her son Albert. The mother of ten children, she was survived by seven of her eight sons and one of two daughters. Martha Mariah's husband, the Reverend Henry Dye, came from their home in Sterling, Nebraska to assist at his mother-in-law's services. Impressive monuments mark the burial sites of Sally and Eli, perhaps acquired through their son John as agent for monument dealers in Iowa.
Two years later, Cyntha died of typhoid fever. She was fifty-nine. Difficult as Eber must have been at times, no one reading his letters to Cyntha can doubt his devotion to her. Daughter Belle described her mother as a quiet person, completely concerned for the well-being of her family.
Belle, twenty-four, was married the next spring, April 18, 1894, to Charles Lewis, thirty-three, a widower and father of two small sons, Gifford and Watson. The marriage was at the home of her brother. Henry, at Whitehouse. Belle and Charles were to have two children, Ford and Bradley Lewis.
After years of declining health, Josiah Farrington, sixty-seven, died in Norborne on February 22, 1895, of complications arising from age and hardships he had undergone during the Civil War. His disability pension bad been increased two years before from ten dollars a month to twelve. At one time considered well-to-do, he reportedly signed notes as security for others and died a poor man. 14
From Nebraska, Albert maintained friendly relations with his brother Harmon in Vermont. In 1960, Albert's daughter, Anna C. Peterson, remembered the excitement of visiting her Uncle
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Harmon with her parents and how scared she was taking a ride in a "big
boat" on Lake Champlain in the summer of 1897.
Other widely separated family members kept in touch. Harmon's son, Charles Henry, and his wife visited Minnie in Iowa; Myron probably was in Whitehouse once or twice; Charles' son, Eli, visited his cousin, Albert Josiah, and was a Methodist Protestant minister in McConnellsvllle, Ohio at his death in 1900; the Nebraska families of three of the brothers, Albert, Charles, and John C., were well acquainted.
Hiram's family was friendly with Eber's children even after Hiram's death in Toledo in 1897. His wife, H. Elizabeth, had died nineteen years before.
Myron and Clara lived in San Jose, California in the 1860's. Later on, Myron might have been in the freight hauling business between Omaha and Salt Lake City for a time although a recent cursory examination of Omaha Public Library records produced no evidence.
He had been mining in Cripple Creek, Colorado, for years when he died on June 9, 1900 in St. Mary's Hospital, Pueblo. Charles brought the body from Colorado for burial by Albert in the Seward, Nebraska, Cemetery adjacent to the monuments erected for their parents.
Obituaries appeared in The Daily Press of Cripple Creek and Victor as well as The Daily News of Denver. The latter reported that he was "well known in Cripple Creek as Major Bradley." His age was given as about sixty although he was seventy.
Cripple Creek, from the discovery of gold in 1890 through its peak year in 1900, was booming and rambunctious. It had 139 saloons, 15 hotels, 40 groceries, 25 schools, 8 newspapers, 2 opera houses, and 100 attorneys. 15
The Times of December 28, 1895 referred to a mining claim identified as "Toledo Blade," probably christened by some admirer of that popular publication. The same month, the Palace Hotel felt called upon to publish a warning notice:
From this date, the Palace Hotel will charge 50 cents for every chair taken
in the office outside of the guests of the house.
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The year after Myron's death, Harmon Howe Bradley, seventy, died in Morrisville, Vermont, on January 9th. His wife Sarah had died in 1879. Their survivors
included their son, Charles Henry Bradley (1860-1922), probably the only family
member in this account who achieved mention in prominent encyclopedias as
educator, author, and for thirty-five years head of the Massachusetts Farm and
Trade School in Boston.
Two months later, March 22, 1901, The Weekly Progress as well as The Holdrege Citizen reported the death of Charles Sanford Bradley on March 20th at sixty-seven. Obituaries described him as a prominent minister in the Methodist Protestant Church, former president of the Nebraska Conference, a genial, enthusiastic, and vigorous man.
Albert E. Bradley died at Seward, Nebraska on January 8, 1907, at sixty-eight, the year after the death of his wife Mary. Their children were Albert Isaac, Sara Masylvia, Mary Louise, Hattie Maude, Helen (Nellie) Irene, Lottie, Meico, and Anna. In 1900, Helen and Leroy E. Bye had married; they became the parents of Helen Mary, Elizabeth Pearle, Mabel Rose, and Roy Albert.
Although feeble and incompetent in his last years, Eber Bradley survived until September 18,1909. He was eighty.
Martha Mariah's zest for living did not subside in her seventies. From Grundy Center, Iowa, she wrote (May 22, 1911) to a niece that she was suffering from several infirmities. Her sight was failing, but she hoped to go east that fall for medical treatment as well as to see "the children." She recalled with some pride her previous birthday anniversary, the seventy-third, when she had received thirty-five cards from one town where she and Henry had spent six years.
She died in Saginaw, Michigan on April 7, 1919, nearly eighty-two. The burial place is marked by a stone: "Mother - M. M. B. Dye-1837-1919."
With the death of Martha Mariah Bradley Dye, the last known living child of Eli Judson and Sarah Cooley Bradley, this account of three generations of her family is ended.
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NOTES
Chapter 1
1. JaneGreen, History of Bradley, Skipton, England, Craven Herald Limited, 1964,10
2. Donald Lines Jacobus, "Families of Ancient New Haven-Bradley Family." New Haven Genealogical Nagazine, Vol. 2-3,1923-26, 261-307.
3. Ralph D. Smyth and Dr. Bernard C. Steiner, "The Bradleys of New Haven and Guilford (Conn.)," Th« New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. LVII, 1903,134-141.
NOTES Chapter n
1. National Archives, Revolutionary War, EberBradley, File S-12324.
2. Chilton Williamson, Vermont in Quandary: 1763-1825, Montpelier, Vermont, Vermont Historical Society, 1949,30.
3. Clifford Lindsey Alderman, Gathering Storm, New York, Julian Messner, 1970,39.
4. Williamson, 38.
5. Alderman, 43.
6. Ibid., 8
7. Kid.,
8. Ralph Nading Hill, TheWinooski, New York, RinehartA Co., Inc., 1949,38.
9. National Archives, Revolutionary War, Samuel Bradley, File R-12358.
10. Regional Center for Educational Learning, Perspectives '76, Hanover, N. H., 1973,A-102.
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11. Harold L. Peterson, The Book of the Continental Soldier, Harrisburg, Pa., Stackpole Press, 1968,190-191,235.
12. CharlesA.Jellison,EthanAllen Frontier Rebel, Taftsville, Vt, the Countryman Press, 1969,238.
13. Frederic F. Van DeWater, The Reluctant Republic, Taftsville, Vermont, The Countryman Press, 1974,224.
14. A. M.Caverly, History of the Town of Pittsford, 1872, Bicentennial Edition, 1976, 151-152.
15. Ibid., 135
16. Ibid., 136-144
17. National Archives, Revolutionary War, Lemuel Bradley, FileR-1361.
18. Jellison, 238.
19. Ibid., 252-274.
20. National Archives. Revolutionary War, Stilman Bradley, File R-I7I47. Chapterm
1. National Archives, Revolutionary War, Eber Bradley, File S-12324.
2. National Archives, Revolutionary War, Elisha Bradley, File S-12310, and Joseph Bradley, FileS-12347.
3. W. StorrsLee, Stagecoach North, New York, MacmillanCo., 1941,89,106.
4. National Archives, War of 1812, Bounty Land File, Eben Bradley, File 181040.
5. Byron N. dark, ed., A List of Pensioners of the War of 1812, Baltimore,
Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969,8-10.
6. JohnL. Heaton, The Story of Vermont, Boston, D. LothropCo., 1889,144.
7. Walton's Vermont Register and Farmer's Almanack 1824-28 Montpelier, E. P. Walton.
8. Ibid., (1824), 84.
9. TheHistoricalCommittee.AHistoryoftheTownofWilliston 1763-1913, Williston, Vt.,n.d.,46.
10. Ibid., 63
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11. Walton's (1825), 120.
12. RalphNading Hill, The Winooski, New York, Rinehart & Company, 1949,127.
13. BrendaC.Morrissey,ed.,AbbyHemenway's Vermont, Brattleboro, The Stephen GreenePress, 1972,93.
14. Gerald Bradley, Further Notes on theHislory of My Family, Houston, Texas, 1976.
15. Walton's (1837), 106.
16. Owned by Harley Bradley, Bowsman, Manitoba, Canada, 1977.
17. John Pell, Ethan Allen, Adirondack Resorts Press, Inc., Lake George, N. Y., 1929, 171,303.
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1. Randolph C. Downes and Catherine G. Simonds, The Maumee Valley USA, Historical Society of Northwestern Ohio, Toledo, 1965,145.
2. Samuel Swift, History of the Town of Middlebury, Charles E. Turtle Co., Rutland, Vt., 1971,98.
3. Ibid., 103-104.
4. Hayden, Stevens, Wilbur, and Barnum, ed., History of Jericho, Vermont, Burlington, 1916, n.p.
5. Contract owned by Harley Bradley, Bowsman, Manitoba, Canada, 1977.
6. Downes and Simonds, 144.
7. Gerald Carson, The Old Country Store, Oxford University Press, New York, 1954, n.p.
8. Toledo Blade, November 10,1865.
9. Mrs. Charles Lewis, conversation with the author, Whitehouse, Ohio, September 1959.
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10. The Toledo Blade, brochure, 1976.
11. Cincinnati Enquirer, May 9, 1886, quoted by Philip D. Jordan, Ohio Comes of Age:
1873-1900, Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society, Columbus, 1943,405.
12. Letter to author from the Oregon Historical Society Library, Portland, Oregon, October 15, 1966.
13. Walter Meacham, Old Oregon Trail, American Pioneer Trails Association, Bayside, L. I., N. Y., 1960. 55-56.
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1. Town Records, Williston, Vermont.
2. Clement Eaton, A History of the Southern Confederacy, The MacMillan Co., New York, 1952, n.p.
3. Information from Charles D. Bradley, Whitehouse, Ohio.
4. Letter from Pearle Bye Houchen to author, August 18, 1966.
Chapter VI
1. Eugene H. Roseboom, A History of the Stale of Ohio, Vol. IV, Ohio State Archaeological and History Society, Columbus, Ohio, 1944,207.
2. F. W. Beers, Atlas of Chittenden County, Vermont (1869), Reprint by Charles E.
Turtle Co., Inc., Rutland, Vt., 1971,26.
3. H, F. Walling, Atlas of the State of Ohio 1868, Reprint by The Bookmark, Knightstown, Ind., 1976,60.
4. Troy City Directories, 1866-1872.
5. Letter owned by Helen M. Bradley, Columbus, Ohio, 1977.
6. Letter to author from First Presbyterian Church, Maumee, Ohio, Feb. 12,1965.
7. Echoes, Nov. 1973, The Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.
8. Information from Pearle Bye Houchen.
9. Missouri Historical Association, History of Carroll County, St. Louis, 1881.
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10. Letter owned by Harley E. Bradley, 1977.
11. Holdrege Daily Citizen, Historical Edition, June 22-28,1958.
12. Newspaper clipping, unidentified, owned by Pearle Bye Houchen, 1977.
13. Letter to author from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Oct. 21,1960.
14. National Archives, Civil War, Josiah Farrington, File WC-437,397.
15. Jerry Hulse, Los Angeles Times, "Cripple Creek Remembers When," undated clipping.
Three essential references used throughout, without benefit of source note numbers, have been:
-A dozen pages of names, marriages, deaths, and dates made by Eber Bradley, Whitehouse;
-The "Bradley Chart" (10-6-1913), prepared by A. J. and Fred Bradley, a copy of which was kindly given to me by George A. Bradley, Marianna, Florida.
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-A record of family data kept by Aunt Belle, Grace Isabelle Bradley Lewis Whitehouse.
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5. Town Records, Williston, Vermont.
6. Sacramento City Directory, 1861-62.
7. A. J.Bradley, Early Whitehou»e History, Phillips Printing Co., Whitehouse, Ohio, 1937,12,
8. Edward T. Downer, Ohio Troop« in the Field, Ohio State University Press, Columbus, n.d., 14.
9. Robert S. Harper, Ohio Handbook of the Civil War, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, 1961,9.
10. National Archives, Civil War, Henry M. Bradlev. File 35554. Chapter V
11. E. M. Haynes, A History of the Tenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, Tenth
Vermont Regimental Association, n. p., 1870,10-15.
12. National Archives, Civil War, James L. dark. File 236527.
13. Roberts. Harper, 75.
14. National Archives, James L. dark.
15. Loraine S. Dwyer, "The Dixon House," Chittenden County Historical Society Bulletin, Burlington, Vermont, June 1969.
16. Charles E. Frohman, Rebels on Lake Erie, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio, 1965, 50.
17. Toledo Blade, undated clipping.
18. Gerald Bradley, Further Notes on the History of My Family, Houston, Texas, 1976.
19. Roberts. Harper, 67.
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20. The Atlanta Century, (a compilation of events 100 years ago), Capricorn Corporation, Atlanta, Ga., 1972, "Sunday, Aug. n, 1862."
21. David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace, The People's Almanac, Doubleday & Co., Garden City, N. Y. 1975,183.
22. Letter owned by Pearle Bye Houchen, Beaver Crossing, Nebraska.