The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 703

CALVIN L. BRADLEY.

Calvin L. Bradley occupies an attractive home in the Selah valley which he built
in 1908. It stands in the midst of his ranch property of ten acres, which is
largely devoted to the raising of apples. He is an alert, energetic business man
and whatever success he has achieved is entirely attributable to his own labors.
He comes to the northwest from the Empire state, for his birth occurred at Otto.
New York, on the 10th of April, 1858, his parents being Charles and Catherine
(Widrig) Bradley, both of whom were natives of New York. The mother was a
daughter of George Widrig, also a native of the Empire state and a
representative of one of its old colonial families. Charles Bradley was a son of
Levi Bradley, a native of Vermont, who in 1832 removed from New England to New
York. His father had served with the colonial army in the Revolutionary war and
aided in winning independence for the colonies. Charles Bradley became a farmer
of New York, and that he possessed the same spirit of patriotism that
characterized his ancestors is indicated in the fact that at the time of the
Civil war he joined the Union army and went to the front in defense of the Stars
and Stripes. He died in a hospital at Annapolis, Maryland, his health having
been broken clown through the rigors of war. He had been taken prisoner at the
battle of Chancellorsville but was afterward exchanged. However, he could not
overcome the disease which the hardships of war and the rigors of prison life
had brought on and he passed away, as previously indicated. His widow long
survived him and died at New York in 1895.

Calvin L. Bradley was accorded liberal educational opportunities. He completed
a course of study in Hamilton College of New York by graduation as a member of
the class of 1882, after which he taught school for a year. He next went to
Fargo, North Dakota, in 1883 and there took up the study of law, to which he
devoted his time for about four years, when he was admitted to the bar. He then
located for practice in Fargo and also followed the profession in Wahpeton,
North Dakota, until 1906, when, attracted by the opportunities of the far west,
he made his way to Yakima county, Washington, and in connection with D. F.
Sanders purchased thirty acres of land on Selah Heights. The partnership
between them was afterward dissolved but Mr. Bradley still remains active in
horticultural pursuits and is now the owner of ten acres, planted to apples. In
1908 he erected his attractive home, which is supplied with all modern
conveniences and comforts. He is now most pleasantly situated in life and is
accounted one of the progressive agriculturists and fruit raisers of his
section of the state. He belongs to the Yakima Valley Fruit Growers Association
and he has also served as a director of the Selah Water Users Association,
occupying that office during the existence of the company. He is now secretary
of the Naches-Selah Irrigation District.

On the 12th of October, 1897, Mr. Bradley was married to Miss Millie Sanders, a
daughter of D. F. and Nettie (Carey) Sanders. The father was born in New York
and the mother in Pennsylvania and in childhood they removed to Wisconsin with
their respective parents and were married in that state. Subsequently they
became residents of :Minnesota, afterward removed to Iowa and still later to
South Dakota. From that point they came to the northwest, settling in Yakima
county, and the mother passed away in this district. The father is still living
and now makes his home with Mr. and Mrs. Bradley, who by their marriage have
become the parents of three children: Beatrice, who is now a student in the
State University; Florence; and Roland. All three of the children are yet at
home.

Mrs. Bradley is a consistent member of the Congregational church. Mr. Bradley
has been an exemplary representative of the Masonic fraternity and was also
identified with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
but has demitted from these societies. In politics he maintains an independent
course, preferring to vote according to the dictates of his judgment. He is
interested in the public welfare, however, and cooperates in many well defined
plans and measures for the general good. He came to the Selah valley when it was
new and undeveloped and is now one of the leading farmers in that section. He
has lived to see remarkable changes and, moreover, he has the satisfaction of
having borne his full share in the work of general improvement and development.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.