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Counties of PORTER and Lake Indiana.
Historical and Biographical
Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor
Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor
F. A. Battey & Co., Pub., Chicago - 1882

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        JAMES S. BRADLY, carpenter and retired farmer, was born September
     1, 1827, in Hamilton County, Ohio, near Cincinnati.  He is the younger
     of two children living, born to DAVID and CURRANCE (PLATT) BRADLY,
     the former a native of Vermont and the latter of Connecticut.  They
     lived in Ohio until JAMES was about sixteen, when they came to Clinton
     County, Ind.  Two years later, the elder BRADLY died.  JAMES and the
     family soon went to Chicago, where he remained about seven years,
     engaged in carpentering.  He then came to Porter County and worked at
     his trade for about four years in Chesterton (then Calumet), and then
     moved on his farm in Liberty Township.  He farmed there from 1856 to
     the fall of 1881, when he moved to Chesterton and again began his
     trade with his son, CHARLES D., who has worked at the trade for two
     years.  They both have a lively run of business, and are first-class
     workmen.  Mr. BRADLY still owns his Liberty Township farm. In 1863, he
     entered service in the Twelfth Indiana Cavalry and served in
     Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, and was mustered out at Vicksburg
     at the close of the war.  He has been a member of the Sons of Temper-
     ance, the Grange, etc.  He has been Township Trustee for two years.
     He was a Free-Soil Democrat, but has been a stanch Republican since
     the formation of that party.  He was married, June 3, 1853, to
     ELIZABETH M. JONES, a native of Ohio.  They have three children living
     - CHARLES D., MARTHA E. and LAVANTIA.  CHARLES D. BRADLY was born
     March 26, 1858, in Liberty Township.  He was married, June 26, 1881,
     to MINNIE D. DETTMAN, a native of Chicago.  JAMES BRADLY'S first wife
     died in 1877, and in 1878 he married Mrs. LAVINA PARKER, a widow, and
     a native of New York.

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