YUBA COUNTY
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CAPT. C. T. BRADLEY
After a military record seldom equaled for length of service so early in life, Capt. C. T. Bradley has settled down to business life in Marysville, specializing in real-estate operations, which, together with his horticultural interests, have made him a constructive factor in the growth and advancement of Yuba County, while still on the reserve list of officers in the United States Army. Born in Jacksonport, Wis., on August 26, 1882, he was educated at Chicago, Ill, graduating from the high school in that city.
Entering upon his military career at the age of eighteen, he is now a veteran of three wars. From 1901 to 1903, he saw service as a member of the 12th U. S. Cavalry in the Philippine Insurrection. In 1904, returning to civilian life, he engaged in the real-estate business in Los Angeles as sales manager for Abbott Kinney, and was associated in the development of Venice, at which resort his father, D. A. Bradley, built the first Ship Café, the noted dining place of the pleasure resort. In 1912, the young soldier of fortune went to Central America as manager of a coffee plantation; and on returning to California, he again engaged in the real-estate business at Red Bluff, Tehama County. The year 1916 saw him again in the army, as sergeant in the 2nd California Infantry during the trouble with Mexico, stationed at Nogales, Ariz. From March, 1917, to August, 1919, he participated in the World War, with the rank of second lieutenant of the 160th Infantry, 40th Division, training at Camp Kearney, and went over seas with that division. He saw service in the Argonne, in charge of replacement troops taken to the front, advancing to the rank of captain of his regiment. Returning to the United States in August, he went to Camp Kearney and for three months was attached to the 32nd Infantry; he now retains his military rank on the reserve list.
On leaving the service in 1919, Captain Bradley entered the real-estate business in Marysville, also maintaining an office in Yuba City. Among his other interests he is the owner of a thirty-lot subdivision near Ellis Lake, within the city limits of Marysville, and has in Yuba County a ten-acre fruit ranch which is being developed to a high state of productiveness.
The marriage of Captain Bradley, occurring at Los Angeles in 1904, united him with Minnie A. Harkey, a native of Illinois, but reared and educated in Yuba City. Fraternally, Mr. Bradley is a member of the Red Bluff Lodge, No. 156, I.O.O.F., and Corinthian Lodge, No. 9, F. & A.M., Marysville, and is Commander of Yuba-Sutter Post, No. 42, of the American Legion.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 555-556
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