Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Bradley, Clarence 1883 - living in 1917
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REV. CLARENCE BRADLEY.

    The Rev. Clarence Bradley, pastor of the Catholic church of the Annunciation
at Frankfort, is a native son of Kansas and has lived in this state all his
life, a resident of this county since 1907, when he was made the first resident
priest at Summerfield, save for two years when he was serving the parish at
Emmett, in the neighboring county of Pottawattomie. He was born in the city of
Atchison on May 10, 1883, a son of Charles E. and Anna (Ostertag) Bradley, the
former a native of the state of Illinois and the latter, of Buffalo, New York,
well-known residents of Atchison and the latter of whom is still living.

    Charles E. Bradley was born in Illinois on February 2, 1855, and in 1877
came to Kansas, locating at Atchison, where, in 1881, he established a shoe
store and was thus engaged in business there until his retirement in 1915, a
period of thirty-four years, during which time he became a quite well-to-do
merchant and one of the leading men in Atchison, having served for some time as
a member of the city council. He died on April 9, 1916, and his widow, who was
born in 1857, is still living, making her home at Atchison, where she has lived
since her early childhood. She was born, Anna Ostertag, in Buffalo, New York,
and was little more than an infant when her parents came West and located at
Atchison. Grandfather Ostertag was a smith and wheelwright and early drove a
thriving business in fitting wheels to the heavy wagons of the freighters on the
plains, Atchison being one of the busiest points of departure for these great
wagon trains in an early day. He helped to lay the rails over the ice in the
Missouri river, for the transportation of the first locomotive engine taken into
Atchison, and was one of the active factors in the upbuilding of that town in
pioneer days. To Charles E. Bradley and wife three children were born. Father
Bradley having two brothers, Harold, who is operating the shoe store his father
established in Atchison in 1881, and Aloysius, who is a clerk in the First
National Bank of Atchison.

    Father Bradley received excellent scholastic training for his holy office.
Upon completing the course in the local schools he entered St. Benedict's
College, at Atchison, and upon completing the course there entered Kenrick
Seminary, St. Louis, where for five years he was grounded in philosophy and
theology, completing his studies in 1906. On April 17 of that same year, at
Kansas City, he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Lillis and was
appointed assistant to the pastor of St. Mary's parish, in that city, serving in
that capacity for one year, at the end of which time he was sent to Paola, this
state, where for five months he substituted for the pastor of that parish. He
then, on August 23, 1907, was appointed pastor of the church of the Holy Family
at Summerfield, this county, the first resident pastor of that parish. During
his pastorate of nearly two years at Summerfield, Father Bradley erected the
parish house there and in many other ways strengthened the parish, remaining
there until June 27, 1909, when he was transferred to the parish at Emmett,
where he remained for two years, or until his transfer to the parish of the
Annunciation at Frankfort, June 27, 1911, a charge which he still holds and in
which he is doing much to advance the cause of the parish, both in a spiritual
and a material way, excellent progress having been reported in all departments
of the work of the church during his pastorate. Father Bradley is well read and
widely informed, not only on matters pertaining to his holy calling, but on the
current topics of the clay, and has been an influence for much good since taking
up his work in Frankfort. His popularity in the city and surrounding country is
not confined to the members of his parish and he is held in the very highest
esteem by all, regardless of religious faith or affiliation.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)

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