David Allen Bradford

David Allen Bradford The wants of the gentleman whose name forms the caption of this sketch have never been abnormal or erratic, but he has found life's chief pleasure in sustaining a good reputation and doing what he could to help his fellow man, believing that a good name is more to be desired among men than anything else. He was born September 17, 1856. His father was Garrison Bradford, who was also a native of Richland township, where he spent his life as a tiller of the soil, having married into the Allen family, who came from Virginia in an early day.

D.A. Bradford made the best use possible of his early educational advantages, having devoted the winter months to study for a number of years until 1875. When he was twenty years old he left his paternal roof-tree and sought his fortune in Iowa, where he settled on a farm and worked there for two years, when he returned to his native community. He has devoted his subsequent life to farming and carrying on the general business incident to life on a farm, and he now owns a well managed farm of sixty acres in Richland township. His unusual ability as an agriculturalist has won for him the responsible position of president of local order No. 80 of the Farmers' Educational and Co-operation Union of America, an organization having as one of its main objects the regulation of prices on the various products raised on the farms belonging to its members, especially the prices on staple crops. Mr. Bradford takes a great interest in this work, believing that it is a worthy movement which will eventually result in incalculable good to its members.

Politically the subject is a Republican, but he has never aspired to positions of honor and trust at the hands of his fellow voters, merely preferring to cast the "honest ballot that shakes the land." The subject owes much of his success to the encouragement of his wife, who was Sarah Warren, a native of Greene county, where she was born April 7, 1858, and reared and received a common school education. One child has survived this union from infancy, Fay, who was born November 1, 1884. She graduated from the Bloomfield high school and taught for three years in Richland township. She is at present (1908) attending the State Normal School, preparing herself for more responsible positions in her chosen profession. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bradford are members of the Methodist Protestant church, Allen's chapel. The subject has always been active in church work and a leader in the Sunday school. He is at present trustee at Allen's chapel, and is regarded as one of the pillars of that church

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Biographical Memoirs of Greene County, Ind. With Reminiscences of Pioneer Days, Illustrated (1908, B. F. Bowen & Co. Indianapolis, Indiana) Vol. 2 Pg. 643-5

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