| JohnT. Bradbury |
JOHN T. BRADBURY was born in Harrison county,West Virginia, March 4, 1840. His father is James Lee Bradbury, born inVirginia in 1816. He was reared on the farm and when he was twenty-threehe went to Kentucky and engaged in teaching for some forty years. He cameto Illinois in the fall of 1847, bringing his wife and two children. Theycame across the country in a lumber wagon and a horse team. It took themabout thirty days to make the trip. Mr. Bradbury soon secured a schoolin Brown county. They soon moved into Mt. Sterling, where they lived until1858. Mrs. Bradbury died in 1857, in the prime of her life, thirty-six,leaving five children to mourn her loss, namely: John T.; Nancy, deceased;James R., carpenter; Margaret Mallory; William, a farmer on the bluffsof the Illinois river.John was brought up to be industrious, andwas well educated. At sixteen he began to study under Dr. Witty at Mt.Sterling. In summer he took charge of the farm, but in the winter studiedunder the instruction of the able Dr. Witty. In 1859 he went to the MissouriMedical College at St. Louis, and graduated in 1861. He opened his firstoffice in Ripley, but very soon closed it and went to Hiawatha, Kansas,in the spring of 1861. Here he remained, practicing until 1863, when hereturned home and enlisted in the One Hundred and Nineteenth Illinois Infantry,Company D. He was in the service three years, but most of the time as hospitalsurgeon. He was mustered out at Mobile, Alabama. In the spring of 1865he returned to Missouri, at Parke, in Sharon county, and opened an office,where he practiced for about a year, when he returned to Versailles, inBrown county. Here he opened an office and drug store. In 1872 he soldout and came to Cooperstown, where he has resided since. He has had a largepractice these many years and has felt the need of rest at times. He hasbeen Postmaster during the Harrison administration.
He was married in 1861, in Mt. Sterling,to Viola Hatcher, daughter of E. and Maria N. (Brisbin) Hatcher,the former from North Carolina, the latter from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.She was born in Madison, Indiana. The family came to Illinois in 1856.
Mr. and Mrs. Bradbury have had seven children,only three of whom are now living: Samuel F. married to Ellen Logsden,two children; James Mitchel married Kate Hurlett; George Anderson, a youthof fifteen. They have all been educated. Dr. Bradbury is an Odd Fellowand a stanch Republican. He and his wife are very estimable people andare highly respected by all.
Biographical Review of Cass, Schuylerand Brown Counties, Illinois, Biographical Review Publishing Co., Chicago,1892, page 159.
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