A line of business enterprise that closely touches the general interests of every community and that is of great importance is that implied in the facilities for safeguarding real estate transactions through the providing of authoritative abstracts of title, and at Idaho Falls, the thriving judicial center and metropolis of Bonneville county the best of provisions of this order are made through the medium of the Bonneville Abstract Company, of which Mr. Bradbury is president. This company gives the most reliable service and it may consistently be said that one of its abstracts is as authoritative as any deed. The interested principals are business men of the highest standing, the files and all other provisions of the office have been arranged according to the best modern methods and the service is prompt, accurate and authoritative, so that the county is fortunate in having a concern whose facilities thus adequately cover all titles to realty within its borders. The president of this company is a progressive, loyal and public-spirited citizen, a man of sterling character and one who has a secure place in popular confidence and esteem, his position in the community being such that he is most emphatically entitled to consideration in this publication.
William A. Bradbury was born at Dixon, the capital city of Lee County, Illinois, on the 25th of January, 1859, and is a scion of the stanchest of New England stock, both his paternal and maternal ancestors having settled in that section in the colonial days. He is a son of Josiah and Mindwell B. (Proctor) Bradbury, both of whom were born and reared in the state of Maine. They were numbered among the sterling pioneers of Illinois, and from that state the father went forth as a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He enlisted as a recruit from Dixon, that state, as a member of the Seventy-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and while on the march with his regiment he contracted typhoid fever. He was sent to his home and shortly afterward, in 1864, his death occurred, his age at the time having been fifty-four years. His wife survived him by more than a score of years and was a resident of Iowa at the time of her death, in 1887, at which time she was sixty-five years of age.
The tenth in order of birth in a family of eleven children, William A. Bradbury was a child of five years at the time of his father's death, and he was reared to adult age in the state of Iowa, where he received the advantages of the public schools of State Center, Marshall county. Thereafter he learned the drug business, and with this line of business enterprise he continued to be identified for several years. He then left Iowa for the purpose of taking up a homestead in western Nebraska, where he obtained government land and improved a productive farm. He continued his residence in that state for seventeen years, and in 1901 he came to Idaho Falls, Idaho, where he became cashier in the bank conducted by Anderson Brothers. He retained this office until 1906, when he identified himself with the abstract business to which he now gives virtually his entire time and attention and in the upbuilding of which he has been a resourceful factor. He was elected president of the Bonneville Abstract Company in 1908 and has since had the active supervision of the business. He is a firm believer in the great future of the state of his adoption, is appreciative of its manifold advantages and attractions and has identified himself closely and permanently with its interests. He is one of the active and valued members of the Idaho Falls Club of Commerce, which is exercising important functions in fostering the growth and precedence of his home city, and he served two terms as a member of the city council, besides which he has been specially progressive in his services as a member of the board of education. While a resident of Frontier county, Nebraska, Mr. Bradbury served two terms as county clerk. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party. In the time-honored Masonic fraternity Mr. Bradbury is actively affiliated with the York Rite bodies, in which he has passed the various official chairs in the lodge, chapter and commandery, besides which he is an appreciative member of the adjunct organization, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also identified with the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. He finds in Idaho the most alluring of attractions in the line of outdoor sports, and devotes a few weeks each year to hunting expeditions, in which he has brought down some fine trophies of skill in marksmanship.
On the 9th of May, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bradbury to Miss Mary E. Medbury. daughter of Joseph Medbury, of Frontier county, Nebraska, to which state he removed from Minnesota, the place of his birth. Mr. and Mrs. Bradbury and their children are popular in the social activities of the community and their pleasant home is one of generous and unostentatious hospitality. Concerning the three children the following brief data are given: Alice, who was born in Frontier county, Nebraska, on the 23d of December, 1893, was graduated in the Idaho Falls high school and remains a member of the family circle; Paul, who was born in the same county, on the 26th of January, 1897, is a student in the high school in Idaho Falls; and Donald, who was born in Frontier county, Nebraska, on the l8th of February, 1900, is a student in the public schools.
[History of Idaho: a Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress..., Volume 3 by Hiram Taylor French (1914)]
William A. Bradbury was born at Dixon, the capital city of Lee County, Illinois, on the 25th of January, 1859, and is a scion of the stanchest of New England stock, both his paternal and maternal ancestors having settled in that section in the colonial days. He is a son of Josiah and Mindwell B. (Proctor) Bradbury, both of whom were born and reared in the state of Maine. They were numbered among the sterling pioneers of Illinois, and from that state the father went forth as a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He enlisted as a recruit from Dixon, that state, as a member of the Seventy-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and while on the march with his regiment he contracted typhoid fever. He was sent to his home and shortly afterward, in 1864, his death occurred, his age at the time having been fifty-four years. His wife survived him by more than a score of years and was a resident of Iowa at the time of her death, in 1887, at which time she was sixty-five years of age.
The tenth in order of birth in a family of eleven children, William A. Bradbury was a child of five years at the time of his father's death, and he was reared to adult age in the state of Iowa, where he received the advantages of the public schools of State Center, Marshall county. Thereafter he learned the drug business, and with this line of business enterprise he continued to be identified for several years. He then left Iowa for the purpose of taking up a homestead in western Nebraska, where he obtained government land and improved a productive farm. He continued his residence in that state for seventeen years, and in 1901 he came to Idaho Falls, Idaho, where he became cashier in the bank conducted by Anderson Brothers. He retained this office until 1906, when he identified himself with the abstract business to which he now gives virtually his entire time and attention and in the upbuilding of which he has been a resourceful factor. He was elected president of the Bonneville Abstract Company in 1908 and has since had the active supervision of the business. He is a firm believer in the great future of the state of his adoption, is appreciative of its manifold advantages and attractions and has identified himself closely and permanently with its interests. He is one of the active and valued members of the Idaho Falls Club of Commerce, which is exercising important functions in fostering the growth and precedence of his home city, and he served two terms as a member of the city council, besides which he has been specially progressive in his services as a member of the board of education. While a resident of Frontier county, Nebraska, Mr. Bradbury served two terms as county clerk. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party. In the time-honored Masonic fraternity Mr. Bradbury is actively affiliated with the York Rite bodies, in which he has passed the various official chairs in the lodge, chapter and commandery, besides which he is an appreciative member of the adjunct organization, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also identified with the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. He finds in Idaho the most alluring of attractions in the line of outdoor sports, and devotes a few weeks each year to hunting expeditions, in which he has brought down some fine trophies of skill in marksmanship.
On the 9th of May, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bradbury to Miss Mary E. Medbury. daughter of Joseph Medbury, of Frontier county, Nebraska, to which state he removed from Minnesota, the place of his birth. Mr. and Mrs. Bradbury and their children are popular in the social activities of the community and their pleasant home is one of generous and unostentatious hospitality. Concerning the three children the following brief data are given: Alice, who was born in Frontier county, Nebraska, on the 23d of December, 1893, was graduated in the Idaho Falls high school and remains a member of the family circle; Paul, who was born in the same county, on the 26th of January, 1897, is a student in the high school in Idaho Falls; and Donald, who was born in Frontier county, Nebraska, on the l8th of February, 1900, is a student in the public schools.
[History of Idaho: a Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress..., Volume 3 by Hiram Taylor French (1914)]
A line of business enterprise that closely touches the general interests of every community and that is of great importance is that implied in the facilities for safeguarding real estate transactions through the providing of authoritative abstracts of title, and at Idaho Falls, the thriving judicial center and metropolis of Bonneville county the best of provisions of this order are made through the medium of the Bonneville Abstract Company, of which Mr. Bradbury is president. This company gives the most reliable service and it may consistently be said that one of its abstracts is as authoritative as any deed. The interested principals are business men of the highest standing, the files and all other provisions of the office have been arranged according to the best modern methods and the service is prompt, accurate and authoritative, so that the county is fortunate in having a concern whose facilities thus adequately cover all titles to realty within its borders. The president of this company is a progressive, loyal and public-spirited citizen, a man of sterling character and one who has a secure place in popular confidence and esteem, his position in the community being such that he is most emphatically entitled to consideration in this publication.
William A. Bradbury was born at Dixon, the capital city of Lee County, Illinois, on the 25th of January, 1859, and is a scion of the stanchest of New England stock, both his paternal and maternal ancestors having settled in that section in the colonial days. He is a son of Josiah and Mindwell B. (Proctor) Bradbury, both of whom were born and reared in the state of Maine. They were numbered among the sterling pioneers of Illinois, and from that state the father went forth as a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He enlisted as a recruit from Dixon, that state, as a member of the Seventy-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and while on the march with his regiment he contracted typhoid fever. He was sent to his home and shortly afterward, in 1864, his death occurred, his age at the time having been fifty-four years. His wife survived him by more than a score of years and was a resident of Iowa at the time of her death, in 1887, at which time she was sixty-five years of age.
The tenth in order of birth in a family of eleven children, William A. Bradbury was a child of five years at the time of his father's death, and he was reared to adult age in the state of Iowa, where he received the advantages of the public schools of State Center, Marshall county. Thereafter he learned the drug business, and with this line of business enterprise he continued to be identified for several years. He then left Iowa for the purpose of taking up a homestead in western Nebraska, where he obtained government land and improved a productive farm. He continued his residence in that state for seventeen years, and in 1901 he came to Idaho Falls, Idaho, where he became cashier in the bank conducted by Anderson Brothers. He retained this office until 1906, when he identified himself with the abstract business to which he now gives virtually his entire time and attention and in the upbuilding of which he has been a resourceful factor. He was elected president of the Bonneville Abstract Company in 1908 and has since had the active supervision of the business. He is a firm believer in the great future of the state of his adoption, is appreciative of its manifold advantages and attractions and has identified himself closely and permanently with its interests. He is one of the active and valued members of the Idaho Falls Club of Commerce, which is exercising important functions in fostering the growth and precedence of his home city, and he served two terms as a member of the city council, besides which he has been specially progressive in his services as a member of the board of education. While a resident of Frontier county, Nebraska, Mr. Bradbury served two terms as county clerk. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party. In the time-honored Masonic fraternity Mr. Bradbury is actively affiliated with the York Rite bodies, in which he has passed the various official chairs in the lodge, chapter and commandery, besides which he is an appreciative member of the adjunct organization, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also identified with the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. He finds in Idaho the most alluring of attractions in the line of outdoor sports, and devotes a few weeks each year to hunting expeditions, in which he has brought down some fine trophies of skill in marksmanship.
On the 9th of May, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bradbury to Miss Mary E. Medbury. daughter of Joseph Medbury, of Frontier county, Nebraska, to which state he removed from Minnesota, the place of his birth. Mr. and Mrs. Bradbury and their children are popular in the social activities of the community and their pleasant home is one of generous and unostentatious hospitality. Concerning the three children the following brief data are given: Alice, who was born in Frontier county, Nebraska, on the 23d of December, 1893, was graduated in the Idaho Falls high school and remains a member of the family circle; Paul, who was born in the same county, on the 26th of January, 1897, is a student in the high school in Idaho Falls; and Donald, who was born in Frontier county, Nebraska, on the l8th of February, 1900, is a student in the public schools.
[History of Idaho: a Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress..., Volume 3 by Hiram Taylor French (1914)]
William A. Bradbury was born at Dixon, the capital city of Lee County, Illinois, on the 25th of January, 1859, and is a scion of the stanchest of New England stock, both his paternal and maternal ancestors having settled in that section in the colonial days. He is a son of Josiah and Mindwell B. (Proctor) Bradbury, both of whom were born and reared in the state of Maine. They were numbered among the sterling pioneers of Illinois, and from that state the father went forth as a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He enlisted as a recruit from Dixon, that state, as a member of the Seventy-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and while on the march with his regiment he contracted typhoid fever. He was sent to his home and shortly afterward, in 1864, his death occurred, his age at the time having been fifty-four years. His wife survived him by more than a score of years and was a resident of Iowa at the time of her death, in 1887, at which time she was sixty-five years of age.
The tenth in order of birth in a family of eleven children, William A. Bradbury was a child of five years at the time of his father's death, and he was reared to adult age in the state of Iowa, where he received the advantages of the public schools of State Center, Marshall county. Thereafter he learned the drug business, and with this line of business enterprise he continued to be identified for several years. He then left Iowa for the purpose of taking up a homestead in western Nebraska, where he obtained government land and improved a productive farm. He continued his residence in that state for seventeen years, and in 1901 he came to Idaho Falls, Idaho, where he became cashier in the bank conducted by Anderson Brothers. He retained this office until 1906, when he identified himself with the abstract business to which he now gives virtually his entire time and attention and in the upbuilding of which he has been a resourceful factor. He was elected president of the Bonneville Abstract Company in 1908 and has since had the active supervision of the business. He is a firm believer in the great future of the state of his adoption, is appreciative of its manifold advantages and attractions and has identified himself closely and permanently with its interests. He is one of the active and valued members of the Idaho Falls Club of Commerce, which is exercising important functions in fostering the growth and precedence of his home city, and he served two terms as a member of the city council, besides which he has been specially progressive in his services as a member of the board of education. While a resident of Frontier county, Nebraska, Mr. Bradbury served two terms as county clerk. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party. In the time-honored Masonic fraternity Mr. Bradbury is actively affiliated with the York Rite bodies, in which he has passed the various official chairs in the lodge, chapter and commandery, besides which he is an appreciative member of the adjunct organization, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also identified with the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. He finds in Idaho the most alluring of attractions in the line of outdoor sports, and devotes a few weeks each year to hunting expeditions, in which he has brought down some fine trophies of skill in marksmanship.
On the 9th of May, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bradbury to Miss Mary E. Medbury. daughter of Joseph Medbury, of Frontier county, Nebraska, to which state he removed from Minnesota, the place of his birth. Mr. and Mrs. Bradbury and their children are popular in the social activities of the community and their pleasant home is one of generous and unostentatious hospitality. Concerning the three children the following brief data are given: Alice, who was born in Frontier county, Nebraska, on the 23d of December, 1893, was graduated in the Idaho Falls high school and remains a member of the family circle; Paul, who was born in the same county, on the 26th of January, 1897, is a student in the high school in Idaho Falls; and Donald, who was born in Frontier county, Nebraska, on the l8th of February, 1900, is a student in the public schools.
[History of Idaho: a Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress..., Volume 3 by Hiram Taylor French (1914)]
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