Bio: Bradford, Charles M. (History - 1850)
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Surnames: BRADFORD SWEETING EASTMAN AMES
----Source: 1891 Bio. Hist. Of Clark
Jackson Co., Wisconsin, pg. 312-313
CHARLES M. BRADFORD, one of the substantial
farmers of Sherman Township, was born in Plymouth, Sheboygan
County, Wisconsin, October 22, 1850. His parents, Ira A. and Sarah
G. (Sweeting) Bradford, were natives of Vermont and New York
respectively. They were married in Syracuse, New York, but in 1846
emigrated to Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, and settled in Plymouth,
where they have resided since that time. Ira A. Bradford has been a
farmer all his life. He was at one time Supervisor of Sheboygan
County, and has been chairman of his Town Board. He has been
fortunate in his business, and has accumulated a competence. He and
his wife reared a family of eight children: Helen, George W., De
Witt M., Charles M., Frank I., Celia, Morton E. and William N.
Charles M. Bradford grew to manhood amidst the pursuits of
agricultural life, and obtained his education in the common
schools. He remained under the paternal rule until he was eighteen
years of age, and then started out in life for himself. As the tide
of emigration was still westward, he drifted with it, and landed in
Clark County, Wisconsin, where he remained one year employed in the
pineries. He then went back to Sheboygan County, and followed
farming during the summer, and in the winter time taught school,
until the year 1875, when he returned to Clark County. He bought
eighty acres of land where he now lives it was then heavily
timbered. He has added to his first purchase forty acres, and has
through his own persevering efforts reduced sixty-five acres to a
state of cultivation. In the winter season he devoted some time to
logging in earlier days, but now gives his whole attention to the
improvement of his farm.
In politics he is allied with the Republican party. He has been
chairman of the Town Board for three years, proving always worthy
of the trust reposed in him.
In the year 1871, October 29, Mr. Bradford was married to Miss
Stella C. Eastman, of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. Mrs. Bradford
was born in Jefferson County, New York, October 4, 1851, and is a
daughter of Frederick L. and Ursula (Ames) Eastman, natives of the
Empire State. The parents emigrated to Sheboygan County, Wisconsin,
in 1854, where the mother passed the remainder of her days the
father still survives.
Mr. and Mrs. Bradford are the parents of four children: Ira L.,
William, Maud E. and Charles E.
The Family of Charles & Stella Bradford
Sherman Township, Clark County, WI
1880 Federal Census for Sherman Township, Clark County, WI | |||||||||
Name | Relation | M-S-W | Sex | Race | Age | Birthplace | Occupation | Father's B. P. | Mother's B. P. |
Chas. Bradford | Head | M | M | W | 29 | WI | Farmer | VT | NY |
Stella C. Bradford | wife | M | F | W | 28 | WI | Housekeeper | NY | NY |
Ira L. Bradford | Son | S | M | W | 5 | WI | At Home | WI | NY |
Willie F. Bradford | Son | S | M | W | 3 | WI | At Home | WI | NY |
Maud Bradford | Daughter | S | F | W | 8 mos. | WI | At Home | WI | NY |
Chester Holly | Other | M | W | 20 | WI | Laborer | NY | NY | |
Frank Hungerford | Other | M | W | 20 | WI | Laborer | NY | NY | |
Abraham Gates | Other | M | W | 21 | WI | Laborer | VT | NY |
Notes
Ira and Maud Bradford are buried in the Coles Cemetery, Sherman Township, Clark Clark Co., WI
Cynthia "Stella" (Eastman) Bradford
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