ORIN C. BRADLEY

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 532
Monongalia

ORIN C. BRADLEY, D. V. S., is one of the skilled and suc-
cessful veterinary surgeons of Monongalia County, where he
controls a substantial practice, with residence and profes-
sional headquarters at Crossroads, Battelle District, on one
of the rural mail routes from Wadestown, and about thirty
miles west of Morgantown, the county seat.

Doctor Bradley was born in Venango County, Pennsyl-
vania, and the place of his nativity, Bradleytown, is a village
that was named in honor of his grandfather, John J. Brad-
ley. The latter's son and namesake, John J., Jr., passed his
entire life in that immediate section of the old Keystone
State, and there his son, Doctor Bradley of this sketch,
was reared to adult age. He made good use of the educa-
tional advantages afforded him and at the age of eighteen
years began teaching in the district schools of his native
county. Thereafter he continued his studies in the Penn-
sylvania State Normal School at Edinboro, and in preparing
for his profession he took a course in a leading veterinary
college in the City of Toronto, Canada, and in the National
Veterinary College at Washington, D. C., in which latter he
was graduated in 1892, the school later becoming affiliated
with Georgetown University. Instead of receiving the gold
medal customarily awarded for highest class standing in the
college Docotor [sic] Bradley was more emphatically honored by
the faculty of the institution in being accorded the highest-
grade diploma, together with the degree of Doctor of
Veterinary Surgery. Nine years after his graduation the
Doctor took an effective post-graduate course in the Chicago
Veterinary College, which holds highest rank of all institu-
tions of the kind in the United States.

In 1894 Doctor Bradley established himself in the practice
of his profession at Mannington, Marion County, West Vir-
ginia, where he remained until 1905, when he removed to
his present place of residence in Monongalia County. In
1900 he served as mayor of Mannington, the charter of
which city had been amended in such a way as to lead to
a period of splendid civic and material advancement, in
which Doctor Bradley, as mayor, played an influential part.
At Crossroads Doctor Bradley owns and resides upon a fine
farm of 418 acres, to the active management of which he
gives his attention, besides continuing in the practice of
his profession and having been for fifteen years associated
with oil-production industry, in which connection he is
president of the Moon Oil & Gas Company, which is con-
ducting successful operations on three large farms near
Salem, Harrison County.  Doctor Bradley became asso-
ciated also with the late G. M. Allender, of Fairmont, in
oil operations in Harrison and Monongalia counties, with
about eighteen wells and with two strings of drilling tools.
This enterprise was conducted under the firm name of Brad-
ley & Allender until the death of Mr. Allender in 1916,
when Doctor Bradley purchased the interests of his de-
ceased partner.  He gives much of his time to his oil-
producing interests. He has high standing in his profes-
sion, has done considerable professional service for the
state and is a valued member and for two years president
of the West Virginia State Veterinary Association. Doctor
Bradley is one of the progressive business men and loyal
and public-spirited citizens of his adopted state, finds his
chief recreation in hunting and fishing expeditions, is
specially vigorous in supporting the construction of good
roads, is a Knight Templar Mason and in the time-honored
fraternity has received also the thirty-second degree of the
Scottish Rite.

In April, 1905, Doctor Bradley wedded Mrs. Alice (Barr)
Carrothers, widow of A. J. Carrothers, of Crossroads, Monon-
galia County, where he had been a representative agricul-
turist and stock-grower of his native county. He was born
near Morgantown and his death occurred in 1896. Mr.
and Mrs. Carrothers became the parents of four children,
Edna, Mary, John and Audrey. For a portion of the time
after their marriage Doctor and Mrs. Bradley resided at
Fairmont in order that the children might there attend
school, the summer seasons being passed on the farm at
Crossroads. Mrs. Bradley passed to the life eternal in the
year 1910, and the Doctor kept his stepchildren together
and cared for them with true paternal solicitude. Edna,
eldest of the children, is, in 1921, a student in Boston Uni-
versity, where she is taking a course that shall prepare her
for religious service in the rural districts of her native state,
she having already taken active part in Sunday-School
work in West Virginia. Mary, who is a graduate nurse
of marked ability, is now engaged in public-health nursing
service in the mountain districts of West Virginia. John
is actively associated with the work and management of the
home farm.  Audrey graduated from Mount de Chantel
Academy at Wheeling, is a talented teacher of music and
is at the head of children's Sunday School work in Monon-
galia County. 


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