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William Milne Bradley <\/a>(son of Samuel and Jane Bradley)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following connection was found with the help of a researcher.  I had been intrigued for some time to know the reason for the additional name ‘Milne’ in William Milne Bradley<\/a>, son of first cousins Samuel and Jane.  Jane`s sister Catherine married Robert Milne, brother of William Charles Milne, missionary to China and both sons of William Milne, colleague of Dr Morrison, also missionaries in China.  The mystery still isn`t really resolved as Catherine married Robert in 1845 and William Milne Bradley was born in 1842.  Perhaps I`ll never know!  I had found mention that William Milne Bradley had travelled to Wyoming in the United States and the researcher mentioned above managed to trace a direct descendant, a granddaughter Kathleen.  Kathleen furnished me with wonderful information regarding her grandfather and also a narrative relating to the lives of her grandparents written by her mother Elizabeth.  Also a biography by William`s son Russell. Sadly Kathleen has now died but I copy below some of the information she gave relating to her Grandfather William Milne Bradley.  I have been touch with Art Hunter, Kathleen`s son, who is happy for me to share this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William married a widow Elizabeth Reynolds \n(Massey) 24th November 1870.  Elizabeth already had children but she and \nWilliam went on and had a further 3 children, Elizabeth, Russell and Eliza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Milne and his brother David \ncontinued to be close after their emigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a Biography of William Milne \nBradley by his son Russell Bradley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“William Milne Bradley \nwas born in Manchester, England on October 24 1842.  He went to a boarding \nschool.  He and his older brother, David, who was born in Manchester on \nSeptember 22 1840.  They went to Canada on a sailing vessel in 1860 (Cari`s note \n– they both appear on the 1861 census in Manchester).  They were one of the \nfirst settlers on Miscola Lake, Canada.  William trapped some and worked in the \nlumber woods for two years.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 During the Civil War, \nmen that had money and were drafted and didn`t want to serve were willing to \ngive a good price for an alien to take his place.  If he could get an alien he \nwould be free from the draft all during the war.  But if he got a native, he was \nsubject to the next draft.  Dad thought he would go to the States and get that \nbounty and enlist.  He went to Wisconsin and worked in a saw mill.  The Bounty \nhad dropped on aliens so he never enlisted.  He went from there to Chicago and \nworked in a railroad shop as a machinist.  He knew something of that trade as \nhis father owned a foundry in Manchester.  He worked as an apprentice for some \ntime in his father`s shop.  He didn`t stay very long in Chicago.  (The pasture \nalways looked greener on the other side of the fence.).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 He went from there to \nNew Orleans where he worked in a shop for a while.  Next he went to Galveston \nwhere he worked in a machine shop.  From there he started drifting northwest.  \nDuring the summer of 1864 he made ties for the railroad.  During the winter of \n`64 and `65 he cut cord wood at Long Island, Nebraska.  It was all dead cedar.  \nI think it was for the railroad.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 He was in Levenworth, \nKansas in the spring of `65.  A man named Iliff had a contract to deliver cattle \nto Fort Union, New Mexico and he hired on as one of the cowboys.  Iliff hired \nhis men with the understanding that he would furnish transportation back to \nKansas if they wanted to go back.  If they took their discharge at Ft. Union \nthey would get more money.  Dad was a good walker and he didn`t know how he \ncould make money any easier that walking back to Kansas.  He had one single \nblanket and a little grub and started out.  The country was very thinly settled \nat that time.  About the first place he stopped was at Trinidad, Colorado.  He \nworked awhile there for a Spaniard named Sapies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 He drifted in to \nKansas.  He and two other men built a boat and started down the Smokey Hill \nRiver.  Their aim was to go down that river to where it joined the Republican \nRiver and formed the Kaw and go down to the Missouri and then down the \nMississippi to somewhere in the south.  They didn`t know just where but they \nwere on their way, going down the Smokey, when they came close to Junction City, \nKansas.  They stopped at a woodcutter`s camp and had dinner with them.  The \ndinner was mostly navy beans of which he ate a lot.  After dinner they all got \nsick.  Bradley was much sicker that the other men.  He was so sick he gave up \nthe trip to the south.  The other two men took the boat and went on.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 When the cook was \ncleaning things up after dinner, he found a pound plug of tobacco had fallen off \nthe shelf over the fireplace into the kettle of beans and had boiled with them.  \nThe other men all chewed tobacco and it didn`t make them so sick, but Bradley \ndidn`t use tobacco in any form so it made him very sick.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The next day he \nstarted out on foot.  He left the river and went east to Clarks Creek.  He came \nto the Tom Reynold`s farm about noon.  He was broke.  He asked Mrs Reynolds for \nsomething to eat.  He said he would cut wood or do any work she wanted for a \nmeal.  Mrs Reynolds was a woman who would give anyone a meal.  She would share \nwhat she had.  She didn`t ask for any pay or work for it.  He started to cut \nwood at the wood pile but was soon called in to dinner.  He thought he hadn`t \ncut enough for his dinner so he went back to the wood pile again.  Reynolds came \nhome that evening and invited him to stay all night.  Reynolds was a stock \ntrader who bought and sold cattle and horses.  He had no education.  He couldn`t \nread or write and it was quite a handicap in his business.  He was naturally a \nsmart man and he saw Bradley had a good education and could be a great help to \nhim.  So he hired him to work on the farm and keep his financial things in \norder.  Bradley stayed at Reynolds that winter.  The spring of 1866 he enlisted \nin the 18th. Kansas Volunteers to fight the Indians who were bad in Kansas.  He \nserved through the summer campaign and was mustered out in the fall.  He went \nback to Reynolds and was working there when Reynolds was murdered and robbed on \nAugust 22 1868.  This left Mrs Reynolds with seven children ranging in age from \n1 to 15 years old.  He stayed on and worked the farm and on Thanksgiving, \nNovember 24, 1870 he and widow Reynolds were married.  To this union were born \nthree children Laura October 7 1871, Russell July 31 1874 and Zona August 3 \n1882.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 He always liked to be \non the move so in the spring of 1886, he trailed a herd of cattle from Kansas to \nWyoming.  At that time, Wyoming was mostly government land.  He took a claim on \nRawhide Creek.  He stayed in Wyoming summer and them came back to Kansas the \nfirst of November.  His wife sold the farm the summer of `86 but didn`t give \npossession until April 15 1887.  He left the farm the 12th April with two wagons \nand some loose horses for Long Island, Kansas where be bought cattle and \ntravelled on to Wyoming.  His wife and two girls went by train to the new town \nof Lusk, Wyoming.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 In the Spring of `88 \nhe homesteaded on Six Mile Creek and he bought out some other claims there and \nhad the best stock ranch in that part of Wyoming.  He was doing very well and \nhad a good bunch of cattle and horses.  In the fall of `93 he met a young man, \nJack Raffen, from Chicago, who was looking for a ranch in the west.  He brought \nJack to the ranch and Jack stayed there that winter.  Jack liked the ranch so \nwell that he wanted to buy it. He got his father, who was a wealthy Scotchman in \nChicago to come to Wyoming, in the late fall of `94 to look things over.  His \ndad bought the ranch and cattle and a lot of horses for Jack.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Bradley stayed on the \nranch until the spring of `95 and then went to the Ozark Mountains in south \nMissouri.  (This was a very bad move financially.)  He shipped two car loads of \nhorses to West Plains, Missouri.  There was no sale for horses there.  No one \nhad any money.  It was a very hard up Hill Billy country.  As there was no free \nrange there for horses, he soon found they were costing more to keep than they \nwere worth.  He began trading them.  He would give a few horses and some cash \nfor land.  The land wasn`t worth much but it didn`t cost so much to keep as the \nhorses did.  He stayed in Missouri until January 1901.  He had traded around \nuntil he had gotten rid of most of his real estate in Missouri.  Next he went to \nTrinidad, Colorado and worked as a carpenter until June.  Then he went across \nthe mountains with a team and wagon to Durango, Colorado.  He stayed there about \na month.  He found nothing there worth while.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 His son Russell, was a \nhorse shoer and general blacksmith.  They leased a shop in Pagosa Springs, \nColorado.  They worked there most of the summer.  He heard there was a \nblacksmith and wagon shop for sale in Lusk.  He and his son went to Lusk and \nbought the shop and ran it for about ten years and did very well.  His wife died \nAugust 16 1909.  He sold the shop that winter and went on a ranch with his son.  \nThe spring of 1911, they went with wagon and team and some loose horses to the \nBig Horn Basin near Shell, Wyoming.  They bought an irrigated farm on Beaver \nCreek.  They sold that the winter of 1917 and bought a cattle ranch twenty miles \nwest of Wheatland, Wyoming.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 In the fall of `18 \nthey had a chance to sell the ranch and stock at a good profit which they did.  \nThey went back to the Big Horn Basin and bought the (M?) Ranch and stock from \nColonel Jay L. Torrey.  It was the prettiest and best in the Basin.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Dad Bradley, as he was \ncalled, didn`t go in with his son Russell on that deal.  Russell and his son \nBill, who was 18, took that over.  It was a 600 acre ranch with 200 acres under \nirrigation.  Dad was on the ranch some of the time, but was taking things easy.  \nHe took a trip or two to southern Texas and enjoyed his vacation from work.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 In 1923 he went to California to visit his daughter Laura who lived in Los Angeles.  He liked California so well that he stayed there most of the time.  He used to come every summer to the ranch for a while.  They sold the (M?) Ranch in the Basin and bought a ranch near Lusk the spring of 1928.  Dad used to spend the summers on the ranch with his son and grandson and the winters in California.  He liked that fine as he always did like to be on the go.  The early part of `32 he was struck by a car – a hit and run driver – and was nearly killed, but he recovered.  He came to the ranch in Wyoming in June, but he didn`t feel so well and the longer he stayed, the worse he got.  He thought he would feel better if he was back in California in a lower altitude.  (Lusk is between five and six thousand feet.)  So his grandson Bill took him back to California.  Bill said it did help him.  Bill stayed with him a few days and he said when he left his granddad was feeling fine and happy.  He wrote weekly letters to the ranch and said he was looking forward to coming to Wyoming the next June.  He always was a great walker and he was able to take long walks even at his age.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"William<\/a>
William Milne Bradley and son Russell<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"David<\/a>
David Bradley<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

These photos were from Kathleen, William Milne`s granddaughter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 On March 18 1933 on one of his walks, he started across a lawn that had a low wire around it.  He didn`t notice the wire and tripped over it and fell.  He didn`t know he was hurt.  He had had many worse falls than that.  He just got up and went on his way, but in a few hours, he was in great pain and the doctor said he had burst a blood vessel inside and that there was nothing could be done for it.  In a few hours he passed away.   So ended the life of the kindest and best man that ever lived.  They don`t come any finer or better than William M.(Dad) Bradley.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This photo was from Kathleen, William`s granddaughter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Laura, daughter of William Milne and Elizabeth also wrote a description of the lives of her parents which obviously overlaps with her brother Russell`s account but I copy here some extra information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My \nfather was always interested in horses and all the neighbors brought their \nhorses to him to doctor or to train to be ridden or driven to a wagon, plow etc.  \nHe became so interested in this work that about the year 1876 he wrote a book on \nHorsemanship and decided to travel into Eastern Kansas and take up the business \nof breaking horses to be ridden or driven.  For a few months he made quite \na success of this, but one day he found a very wild horse that bucked extremely \nhard when he got on him and threw him off.  He fell, hitting his head on a \nstump, and was knocked unconscious.  He remained in that condition in spite \nof all the doctors in that vicinity could do.  As it was near Olathe where \nthey asylum fro the insane was located he was taken there and as before the \naccident —or from his book— his home address was given and word was sent to \nmy mother of his condition.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“So \nwhen word came to Mother about my father`s accident she consulted doctors and \neven lawyers who were friends and was told to leave my father where he was for a \nmonth or so, then she might go to see him and possibly bring him home. Letters \nwere exchanged between Father and Mother even the doctors and lawyers wrote \nfriendly letters to him.  He usually wrote letters.  Sometimes he \nwrote quite rationally but sometimes he seemed to be losing his ability to think \nstraight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a \ntime Mother decided to go to Olathe and visit Father.  Russell and I were \ntoo young to be left at home so she decided to leave the other children with Mr \nThurman and Frank Johnson and hire a neighbor to drive her, with Russell and me, \nto Olathe in a covered wagon………….When we arrived at the asylum in Olathe \nwe were met by Dr Knapp, who was in charge.  He greeted us kindly and I \nremember he said to my mother: “Let me take the little girl in to her father and \nsee if he knows her.”  He picked me up and carried me into my father`s \nroom.  Father knew me at once and rushed happily forward to take me in his \narms but I cried and hung on to the doctor, saying, “No, I don`t want to to to \nhim, that`s my Uncle Dave.”  Dave was my father`s brother, a bachelor, who \nnever wore a mustache and did not care for children.  My father wore a \nmustache but had pulled it all out during the period of his unconsciousness.  \nThere must have been a strong family resemblance, which  no one had ever \nseemed to notice before.  My father`s kind loving voice quickly made me \nrecognize him and I was so happy to be with him once more. Father was pronounced \nentirely cured and next day we started for home and there never was a recurrence \nof his mental trouble.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also \nfrom Kathleen – letter from David Bradley to his brother William – date to be \nverified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My \ndear Will<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \nreason I have not answered your letter is that I have  met with a terrible \nmisfortune.  On the 20th of January in the evening the rotary snow plow \ncame along and I didn`t get over far enough or out of the way and it \nstruck me; after waiting 4 or 5 weeks the Doctor put me under chloroform and \ntook out the broken bone, but after examination he found several other bones \nbroken.  Another Dr was with him.  They saw the only thing to do was \nto take off the leg below the knee.  The chloroform has left me very \ndebilitated.  I have no appetite.  I have a hiccough which troubles me \nat intervals. The stump of my poor leg is dressed every day and all the doctors \nfear is blood poisoning or hemoraging.  Now dear Will don`t let this \ntrouble you anymore than you can help.  And don`t on any account think of \ncoming to see me.  The trains are not running and the RR blocked for five \nweeks.  Mail is carried by men on snow shoes.  The Dr is a fine man \nand is also the RR Dr.  he treats me the same as if I was a paying patient.  \nNow Dear Will do not think of coming to see me til May.  No regular trains \nwill run till then.  Dr B A Arborgast is the Dr`s name should you wish to \ncorrespond with him do so.  How I wish for good Mr Thurman so I could talk \nto him, ask him to read the Psalms beginning “Truly our God is a loving God and \nalso sing “Arise my soul arise””. Tell dear Elizabet6h not fret cheer her up.  \nI hope this news will not have any bad effect upon her and do not let it \ninterfere with your prospects. Dear Russell and Dear Zona will feel bad about \nthis.  I hope to get well, but there is no knowing how everything will end \nbut my trust is in God.  Religion is a great comfort to me but I feel that \nGod is near to me.  Now Good Bye dear Will write to me.  The Rotary \nhas not run since it struck me.  Excuse mynot answering your letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With best love I remain your affectionate Brother David \nBradley.  Give my best to all.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nSamuel Robert Bradley<\/a> (son of Rev. \nRussell Bradley, nephew of William Milne Bradley).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samuel Robert b. 7 September 1876 was the \nnephew of William Milne. The first knowledge of Samuel is by a passenger record \nfrom Ellis Island wherein his age on arrival is stated as 21 years and single, \nhe is Irish and his place of residence is Cashel, Ireland. He had sailed on the \nMajestic leaving Liverpool and arrived Ellis Island on 10 August 1898.  His \noccupation is Land Agent Assistant and he can read and write. His final \ndestination was New York and he had paid for his own ticket.  Also on this \nsailing is Margaret E Graham a single governess\/teacher from Cashel.  \nAccording to a copy newspaper cutting there is a marriage announcement for \nSamuel and Margaret for the date 10 August 1898 in New York, Margaret being the \nelder daughter of Robert Graham MA Headmaster of Midleton College Cork. Why \ndidn`t they marry in Ireland I wonder?  They were divorced in 1902.  \nThere is a second Ellis Island entry for  Samuel Robert in 1906, again from \nLiverpool and this time on the Celtic.  His last residence is London and he \nstates his last time in the United States was from 1898 to 1903.  He is \nmarried.  In 1909 he marries Kate Dora Thebaud in Jersey City, New Jersey. \nKate was born in England and was an actress having performed in Australia and \nNew York. She gave up her career at the time of her marriage. She died in 1961 \nhaving spent the last year with their only daughter Mrs Chave in Wellesley MA.. \nBefore that she and Samuel had spent the whole of their married life in New York \nCity.  Samuel died in 1970, also in Wellesley.  He was described in \nhis death notice as a former sales representative and a sports enthusiast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am in possession of a copy letter \n(deposited with the Soc. of Genealogists) from \nRussell (of 17 Wesley Road, Rathgan, Dublin but written on headed notepaper for \nThe Lambs, 130 West 44th Street, New York) to his son Samuel at 36 Woodruff \nAvenue, Flatbush, L.I. New York dated March 24th 1938. Russell addresses the \nletter ‘My dear Sam’. He goes on to say he has received Sam`s letter of the 14th \nand is sorry to hear that business is so bad in New York. Samuel has obviously \nasked for information on his grandparents, Samuel and Jane and Russell proceeds \nto give details and confirming his parents were first cousins. He also confirms \nthat his (Russell`s) grandfather Benjamin(e) Bradley was agent to the Duke of \nBridgewater and that his maternal grandfather was Samuel Bradley, an independent \nminister. Russell confirms that he was one of 7 children and that only ‘your \nUncle Willey, now 88, and myself survive’.  He signs himself  ‘your ever \naffectionate father’.  In a later letter Russell gives the information that \nhis father Samuel was a partner with Edward Bellhouse in the Eagle Iron Foundry \nand had mortgaged his house in order to buy in.  He goes on to say that \nEdward Bellhouse was a very extravagant and reckless man and nearly ruined the \nbusiness.  He also gives information on his uncle John, from Droitwich with \nsons John, Samuel, Frederic and Charles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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