Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Allen County.

BEAUFORD WARRICK BRADBURN, one of the rising young lawyers of Allen
County, was born in Simpson County, Ky., on the 16th of April, 1855.
His parents were unable to give him such an education as they desired,
but at the age of sixteen he had acquired a proficiency in the English
branches as taught in the common schools, which he attended only in the
winter months; his summers were passed amid the labors on the farm.  In
his eighteenth year he taught a term of school, and for the next three
years divided his time between the profession of teaching and attending
school as a student.  In the meantime he applied himself assiduously to
the study of law.  After reading Kent and Blackstone he read for six
months in the office of B. M. Mulligan, until, August 1876; then he
occupied an office with H. P. Bailey until July, 1878, at which time he
was examined in the law by W. H. Botts and H. T. Clark, and received a
license, which was approved by Judge Garnett of the Sixth Judicial
District of Kentucky.  He then entered into the practice of law, which
he has followed successfully up to the present time.  On the 12th of
February, 1881, he was appointed to the office of county attorney, to
finish the unexpired term of H. P. Bailey, and in August, 1882, was
elected to the same office, in which he yet continues.  On the 10th of
January, 1877, he was united in marriage with Mary E. Barton, an
accomplished lady and a native of Allen County.  She is a daughter of
James S. and Sarah J. Barton, also natives of Allen County.  Politically
Mr. Bradburn in a gentleman of liberal views and high aspirations, and
bids fair to become one of the leading lawyers of his native State.  He
is a son of George and Isabella A. (Allen) Bradburn, who were natives of
Kentucky, married in 1852.  Mrs. Isabella Allen was a native of Simpson
County.  Her children were nine in number and our subject was the
second.  George Bradburn has been engaged in various kinds of business,
having been farmer, county assessor, and is now in the livery business.
He was born in 1829, and is a son of William C. Bradburn, who was a
native of the Old Dominion, and came to Kentucky and located in Simpson
County, where he was one of the early settlers and followed the trade of
a carriage-maker; he died at the age of forty-five years. His wife was
Mary Martin.  She was also a native of Virginia, and came to Kentucky
with her husband soon after her marriage.  Mr. Bradburn's maternal
grandfather, Thomas Allen, was a North Carolinian by birth, his
ancestors being English.  He came to Kentucky when a boy and remained
here during life.  His trade was that of a wheelright.  He died in 1862;
his widow, Sarah (Lewis) Allen, survived until 1866.  Her age at death
was sixty-five years.

Allen Bailey Barton Blackstone Botts Bradburn Clark Garnett Kent Lewis
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