Pueblo-Gilpin County CO Archives Biographies.....Bradford, Allen A. 1815 - 
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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

HON. ALLEN A. BRADFORD.

    We have rarely ever noted the career of a man so peculiarly his own, not
only in originality of mind and general characteristics, but in point of history
and varied experience as Judge A. A. Bradford. Being originally from Maine, he
has lived respectively in four other States- Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and
Colorado-in each of which he has held office and been more or less connected
with public affairs. He was born in Friendship, Me., July 23, 1815, at which
place he was reared, and received an academical education. In 1841, he emigrated
to Missouri, locating at Atchison County, where he afterward studied law, and
was admitted to the bar in 1843. He was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court at
Atchison, in 1845, which position he held five years. He was married at St.
Joseph, Mo., November 1, 1849, to Miss Emiline Cowles. In 1851, he removed to
Iowa, and the following year was appointed Judge of the Sixth Judicial District
of that State. In 1855, resigning his Judgeship, he removed to the Territory of
Nebraska. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Nebraska in 1856-57-58.
Leaving that Territory in 1860, he settled in Colorado, locating at Central
City. He removed from Central to Pueblo, in 1862, at which place he has since
made his home. He was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Colorado Territory
in 1862, which office he filled with ability and with honor until his election
to the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States in 1864. He represented
Colorado in Congress two terms, being elected the second time in 1868. In
Congress he stood up well among his peers and feared not to assert the rights of
his constituents. During his first term, and while at Washington, the
assassination of President Lincoln occurring, he was placed upon the National
Committee appointed to accompany the remains of Lincoln to Illinois. Upon
returning from his last session in Congress, in 1871, Judge Bradford resumed his
practice at Pueblo. Since then he has preferred the more private walks of life
and has devoted his exclusive and untiring energies to the duties of his
profession. He is the present County Attorney of the county of Pueblo. Many
interesting incidents are related of Judge Bradford, especially when referring
to his pioneer life, but space will not here admit them. His remarkably
retentive memory has secured for him an almost inexhaustible store of
reminiscences, historical data and general information, so that his jpciind is a
perfect encyclopedia-a reference book, so to speak-for all those who know him.
Few men are better posted in the law than he, and his opinions upon legal
questions are very highly regarded. Although the silver tints of life's winter
are plainly visible about the Judge's head, yet he is active and vigorous and
seems to have lost none of his native vivacity. Long may he yet live.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

History of the  Arkansas Valley, Colorado
By J. Harrison Mills

O. L. Baskin & Co.
Chicago
1881


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