Bradley, Edward
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born April, 1808, in East Bloomfield, N. Y.
When twenty-eight years of age he was appointed associate judge of the common pleas of his native county; and in 1839 he removed to Michigan and engaged in the practice of law. In 1842 he was elected to the senate of Michigan; and was a representative from that state to the son.
HO VIO BRADLEY, LEONIDAS HAMALINE, lawyer, was born July 23, 1841, in Patriot, Ohio. In 1861 he graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university, and received the degree of B. A.; and subsequently received the degree of A. M. He served as a union soldier during the civil war for three years; and was assistant acting adjutant-general at Fort Pickering, Memphis, Tenn. In 1866 he was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Illinois. He lived in Springfield, Ill., during 1865-86, and there took an active part in local affairs; was a member of the city council, and assistant United States attorney for the southern district of Illinois, and was instrumental in breaking up the whisky ring during 1868- 73.
He then removed to Omaha, Neb., where he holds a place in the front ranks as an able lawyer.