BRADFORD, Welman, Ascension Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

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WELMAN BRADFORD, RAYNE.--Welman Bradford was born in Ascension parish
October, 1869.  He is one of a family of four children, two brothers and
two sisters, born to Robert H. and Rosa (Welman) Bradford.  His father was
a native of Pennsylvania and his mother of New Orleans.  Robert H. Bradford
was a prominent lawyer.  He practised [sic] for some time in Washington, D.
C., and later in New Orleans.  The last years of his life were spent in
Florida, where he died in September, 1888.  The mother of Mr. Bradford is
still living with him

Weldon Bradford received the benefit of a liberal education, and since
eighteen years of age has given his principal attention to surveying and
civil engineering.  For the past two years Mr. Bradford has been
experimenting in rice culture with good results.  He has a plantation of
four hundred acres of land where he resides, one hundred of which he
cultivated in rice this year (1890).  Mr. Bradford also practises in the
Land Court.  He is the present treasurer of the town of Rayne.  He is a
young man of energy and thrift and is always identified with laudible
public measures. He is a member of the Episcopal church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p.
254.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.

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