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Welcome To Sullivan County, Indiana
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STEPHEN BRACEWELLSTEPHEN BRACEWELL, merchant, P. O. Curryville, was born in Green Acres, near Oldham, Lancashire, England, June 8, 1836; son of Michael and Bettie (Sidebottom) Bracewell, both natives of England. Our subject when eight years of age was apprenticed to the trade of cotton spinning, at which business he continued till he was twenty-one years old, at which time he sailed for America, and landing in New York almost penniless, and not being able to obtain employment, walked to Pittsburgh, at which city, not finding ready employment, hired as a roustabout on a steamer running from Pittsburgh to Florence, Ala., which he followed for nine months, when he obtained a situation as knife-cleaner at the Gault House, Louisville, Ky. In June, 1859, he went to Fulton, Mo., where he worked in the coal mines; then to Columbia, and from there in the fall of 1863 he went to Belleville, Ill., and remained mining until 1867. He then went to Louisiana and was Superintendent of salt mines, which position, after six months, he gave up and that fall, 1867, made a trip to England. In 1868, he came to Curryville, and remained some weeks, when he returned to Missouri, where he was successful in mining. In November, 1870, he settled in Curryville, where he purchased property and has remained since. His attention was given to mining for the first six years, but in 1878 he opened a general stock of merchandise, and has since conducted a successful business. He was married at Saddleworth Church, England, April 21, 1856, to Elizabeth Beswick, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Hadley) Beswick, and two children have blessed their union--Bettie A. and Fred. Mr. Bracewell is an I. O. O. F. and a Republican.CURRY TWP. PAGE 766 FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC. ILLUSTRATED. 1884, CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. |
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