Louis Grant Bradley

Brief Life History of Louis Grant

When Louis Grant Bradley was born on 14 August 1897, in Livingston, Illinois, United States, his father, Andrew Jackson Bradley, was 46 and his mother, Martha Caroline Bailey, was 39. He married Mabel May Winkler on 30 June 1921, in Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Reading, Livingston, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States for about 20 years. He died in 1989, in Florida, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida, United States.

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Family Time Line

Louis Grant Bradley
1897–1989
Mabel May Winkler
1898–1970
Marriage: 30 June 1921
Lee Edwin Bradley
1923–1990
Doris E Bradley
1925–1988

Sources (18)

  • Louis Bradley, "United States, Census, 1950"
  • Lewis Grant Bradley, "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1953"
  • Lewis Earl Bradley, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1969"

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World Events (8)

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1900 · The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal

Historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal, the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a canal system that connects the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River. It reverses the direction of the Chicago River, which now flows out of Lake Michigan rather than into it. It is one of two canals that helps navigation to ships traveling between the Great Lakes Waterway and the Mississippi River system.

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of the many places throughout England named Bradley, from Old English brād ‘broad’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

Scottish: habitational name from Braidlie in Roxburghshire.

Irish (Ulster): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Brolcháin ‘descendant of Brolacháin’, a diminutive of the personal name Brólach, compare Brawley . This was a learned family.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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