Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 484-485 [McCracken]

     HENRY L. BRADLEY, one of the successful young business men of
Paducah, Kentucky, was born in this city, July 28, 1872, a son of
William H. and Lucy C. (West) Bradley.  The father is a native of
Georgia, where he was born September 5, 1836, and when yet a child went
with his parents to western Tennessee, locating in Paris, Henry county,
remaining there until 1858, when he removed to Paducah, and was there
employed as bookkeeper by the old firm of J. W. Sherrer & Company,
wholesale grocers.  William Bradley is the only man now living who was
connected with that firm when it closed its doors during the Civil war,
and he also enjoys the honor of being the first man to travel for a
Paducah wholesale house.  At one time he was in business with J. T. West
& Company, and later became the senior member of the firm of Bradley &
Terrell, millers, but he sold his interest in this concern in 1873, and
operated a commission house at Cairo, Illinois, for a year. 
At different times he was employed as a traveling salesman for M.
Livingston & Company, and also for D. W. Swan Manufacturing Company.  For
nine years he traveled for Thompson, Wilson & Company, wholesale liquor
dealers.  Since 1889 he has been in the employ of the W. L. Weller &
Sons' wholesale liquor house of Louisville, Kentucky, the
oldest house of its kind in the state.
     Henry L. Bradley is the youngest of three living children.  He
obtained his education in the public and private schools of his native
city, and at the age of seventeen years began working in a flour mill. 
After four years' experience he assumed management of the Three Rivers
Milling Company, of Paducah, and acted in that capacity for two years.  
In 1895, when only twenty-three years old, he embarked in a grain
business on his own responsibility, his first establishment being on
the south side of the town, but in 1899 he removed to his present
convenient premises at 823 and 825 Harrison street, and added coal to
his other commodities, now dealing in grain, coal, and cornmeal, which
he manufactures himself.
     In 1901 Mr. Bradley was married to Miss Emma McKnight, a native of
Paducah.  In politics he is a Democrat.  In religious matters he is a
Presbyterian, while his wife is a Methodist.  Fraternally he is a
member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and is highly esteemed by
all who know him.

Bradley West Sherrer Terrell Livingston Swan Thompson Wilson Weller
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