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Samuel D. Bradford, Van Buren [Township]

Samuel D. Bradford was born, September 22, 1798, in Pennsylvania, and was a son of John and Mary Bradford. He commenced the business of farming when a boy, and has continued through life at the same occupation. He has acquired a good practical education. He removed to Ohio, near Cincinnati, in the year 1800; and in 1801 settled here with his father on the farm now owned by George D. Bradford. He was, on the 24th April, 1827, married to Miss Mary Ann Johnston, of Franklin County, Pa., who was born December 7, 1801; result of union, six children, viz., Mary J., born February 12, 1828; John A., born May 19, 1830, died June 5, 1842; James B., born August 31, 1832; Robert C., born September 1, 1832; Samuel H., born December 3, 1837; Annie E., born October 28, 1843. Mr. Bradford commenced life comparatively poor, but by industry and frugality became well off. In politics, he was a Whig, then a Republican. He was a member of a church now known as United Presbyterian, and even in the day in which he lived, was a temperate man. He died November 18, 1872; then there was one more blank in the honorable circle which is yearly growing less, soon to be no more, and remembered only by tradition or the page of history. Should these brave and hardy men be forgotten? Certainly not, nor shall they be, no more than that illustrious band that landed on the Rock of Plymouth. The biographer fancies, as he pens these lines, that two centuries hence, when the world shall have advanced in improvements and knowledge fully as much as it has during the past two hundred years, antiquarians may wish to trace back the history of this magnificant State to her incipiency, and follow her up to her then nascent and progressing importance; researches will have to be made, the literary archives of the nation shall be ransacked, and doubtless, among their dusty tomes, Evert's Historical Atlas will be found, and among its records the name of Samuel D. Bradford will be discovered and noted down as one of the pioneers. Though dead, he still speaketh: how true the time-honored saying. Reader, is this a fancied picture, without a shadow of truth? innumerable precedents affirm that it is not.

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