Biographical Sketch of T. J. Bradbury, Johnson County, Missouri, Jackson Township. >From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell, Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918. ********************************************************************** T. J. Bradbury, a successful farmer and stockman of Jackson township, is one of the citizens of Johnson county whose career proves that energy and industry are the paths to true prosperity and that wealth is undesirable unless obtained by honorable, legitimate methods. Mr. Bradbury was born in Pennsylvania in 1859, a son of Daniel Bradbury, who was a member of a prominent and patriotic colonial family. Daniel Bradbury was a son of Thomas J. Bradbury, whose entire life was spent in New York. He was a son of A. Bradbury, a veteran of the Revolution- ary War. The history of the Bradbury's in America has been traced back to two brothers of the Bradbury family in England, who immigrated to America in the sixteenth century and from whom the American branch of the family has descended. The mother of T. J. Bradbury, the subject of this review, was a daughter of Jared Phelps, who was also a son of a veteran of the Revolution of 1776. The educational training received by T. J. Bradbury was such as is embraced in the studies taught in the public schools of Pennsylvania and in a private academy of that state. Mr. Bradbury left his native state and located in Kansas City, Missouri in 1881. He was employed by the Kansas City Smelting & Refining Com- pany until 1898 and one year later he came to Johnson county, and sett- led on a farm of eighty acres of land in Jackson township and for the past eighteen years has been engaged in farming and stock raising. Mr. Bradbury is devoting more attention each year to the dairy business and, at the time of this writing, in 1917, he has a large herd of fine Jerseys. He is raising Poland China hogs and has thirty-five acres of the farm in corn and fourteen acres in wheat. Mr. Bradbury is an intelligent, progressive agriculturist and by studying the soil and its adaptability to different crops never fails to make his well cultivated acres yield large returns. He is an enthusiastic advocate of crop rotation, clover growing, and of the utilization of all the barnyard manure. In 1883, T. J. Bradbury was united in marriage with Clara Paul daughter of George Paul, of Kansas City. To this union have been born four sons: Daniel B., Robert, Guy and Thomas J., Jr., all of whom are at home with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Bradbury are doing all in their power to rear their boys properly that they may take honorable and responsible stations in life and kept the Bradbury name the symbol it has always been of honor, honesty, industry and morality. Mr. Bradbury takes a pardonable pride in the untarnished record of his family, in the fact that not one blot has ever been on the family escutcheon. His own life, which has been singularly free from mistakes and faults, might well be emulated by his boys. The agricultural interests of Jackson township are represented in this volume by no more enterprising man than the highly respected citizen, the subject of this sketch. ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: <> Penny (Eisenbarger) Harrell ====================================================================