BENJAMIN M. BRADY - Biography
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BENJAMIN M. BRADY - Biography
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Classification: Biography
Surnames: Brady, Conrad, Davis, Jackson
Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, pp. 661-662.
Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888.
B. M. BRADY, farmer, section 2, Wea Township, is a well and favorably known pioneer, having been a resident here since 1829. He was born in Alleghany County, Maryland, August 26, 1821, son of WILLIAM and JANE (DAVIS) BRADY, also natives of that State. They removed to Virginia in 1832 (should be 1822?), and came thence by wagon to Brownsville, on the Ohio River, thence by boat down the Ohio and up the Wabash to Lafayette. The boat was stranded on a sand-bar in the Wabash River, and they were obliged to remain there six days before they could proceed on their journey. On their arrival in this county the BRADY family located near HARTER's old mill.
MR. B. M. BRADY was a lad of eight years when he came to this county. His youth was passed in hard labor upon his father's farm, and his education he received in the pioneer schools of Virginia and Tippecanoe County. During his life he has been a successful farmer, and he now owns 250 acres of very fine land, which is highly cultivated and well improved. He has a comfortable residence, a good barn, and other substantial farm buildings. One of his most valuable farm improvements is a modern windmill, which furnishes motive power for supplying water for both the house and the livestock. Everything about the premises is an evidence of thrift. MR. BRADY is a steward in the Methodist Episcopal church at Dayton, and is remembered as a worthy and representative pioneer of the county, who has been identified with its best interests for nearly sixty years. He has never sought office, but humbly votes his sentiments at the polls. At the age of twenty-three years he married MISS JANE JACKSON, of this county, who died in 1867, leaving five sons--ELIAS EDWIN, ROBERT O., STEPHEN W., JACKSON O. and WILLIAM. MR. BRADY was united in marriage with his present wife, LEONA CONRAD, of this county, December 1, 1875, and to this union there have been born three children--AMANDA MABEL, BENJAMIN M., Jr. and FRANK RAY.
Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888.
B. M. BRADY, farmer, section 2, Wea Township, is a well and favorably known pioneer, having been a resident here since 1829. He was born in Alleghany County, Maryland, August 26, 1821, son of WILLIAM and JANE (DAVIS) BRADY, also natives of that State. They removed to Virginia in 1832 (should be 1822?), and came thence by wagon to Brownsville, on the Ohio River, thence by boat down the Ohio and up the Wabash to Lafayette. The boat was stranded on a sand-bar in the Wabash River, and they were obliged to remain there six days before they could proceed on their journey. On their arrival in this county the BRADY family located near HARTER's old mill.
MR. B. M. BRADY was a lad of eight years when he came to this county. His youth was passed in hard labor upon his father's farm, and his education he received in the pioneer schools of Virginia and Tippecanoe County. During his life he has been a successful farmer, and he now owns 250 acres of very fine land, which is highly cultivated and well improved. He has a comfortable residence, a good barn, and other substantial farm buildings. One of his most valuable farm improvements is a modern windmill, which furnishes motive power for supplying water for both the house and the livestock. Everything about the premises is an evidence of thrift. MR. BRADY is a steward in the Methodist Episcopal church at Dayton, and is remembered as a worthy and representative pioneer of the county, who has been identified with its best interests for nearly sixty years. He has never sought office, but humbly votes his sentiments at the polls. At the age of twenty-three years he married MISS JANE JACKSON, of this county, who died in 1867, leaving five sons--ELIAS EDWIN, ROBERT O., STEPHEN W., JACKSON O. and WILLIAM. MR. BRADY was united in marriage with his present wife, LEONA CONRAD, of this county, December 1, 1875, and to this union there have been born three children--AMANDA MABEL, BENJAMIN M., Jr. and FRANK RAY.