"An Illustrated history of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties : with a
brief outline of the early history of the state of Oregon." Chicago?: Western
Historical Pub. Co., 1902.  Page 594.  Malheur County.

EBER L. BRADLEY

     This capable gentleman, better known as Judge Bradley, is one of the
prominent men of this county, having been in the vicinity of Malheur, where he
now resides, for many years, and taking always a leading part, both in the
development of the country and in the manipulation of governmental affairs, in
all of which he has discharged faithfully  and well the duties devolving upon
him, and now as one of the venerable patriarchs, stanch pioneers, and patriotic
citizens, he is held in high esteem and admired by all.
     Mr. Bradley was born in Butler county, Ohio, on July 31, 1829, being the
son of Eber M. and Elsie (Rinearson) Bradley.  He went with his parents to Des
Moines county, Iowa, in 1843 and in 1851 he came across the plains in a train of
thirty wagons drawn by oxen.  He passed through the territory now occupied by
Baker and Malheur counties and went on to Oregon City.  He followed packing for
a time and then took up a merchant's life at Jacksonville, Oregon.  Later he
packed to Yreka and other points, and in 1855 sold out and the following year
visited the spot where the city of Spokane now stands.  Thence he returned to
Umatilla and The Dalles and that fall he enlisted in Company C, of Oregon
Volunteers, to fight the Indians.  He was under Captain James K. Kelly,
afterward colonel and now ex-state and United States Senator.  He participated
in several skirmishes and as detailed to appraise the government property, being
also clerk in the quartermaster's department, and later was honorable
discharged.  After this he was again on the mercantile sea with Professor Post
and also interested in steamboating on the Willamette.  In 1860 he closed out
this business and went with a pack train to British Columbia, and the following
spring he was in Oro Fino and Pierce City merchandising and mining.  Here he was
robbed of about nineteen hundred dollars.  later he closed out and went to work
for Wells Fargo, carrying the express from Lewiston to Florence.  In 1863 Mr.
Bradley was deputy sheriff under Captain Fisk and in this capacity he had charge
of the famous murderers of McGruder, who were finally hung.  Later he was in
Walla Walla, and in 1864 he was in Boise, and in 1867 he came to Malheur, where
he still lives.  He at once engaged in mining and has lived here continuously
since that time, being always one of the prominent men of the section, as he is
today.  While in Oro Fino Mr. Bradley was elected the first county clerk of
Shoshone county, Idaho, the date being 1863, and he ran on the Republican
ticket.  In Boise he was deputy sheriff under Pinkham, and in Malheur he has
been notary for the past twenty years, serving a number of terms as justice of
the peace.  He had charge of the Malheur Indian Agency from 1882 to 1886 and
also of the Malheur and Camp Harney reservation.  In 1880, in 1890 and in 1900
Mr. Bradley acted as census enumerator.  Mr. Bradley owns the hotel in Malheur,
has several other valuable buildings and also some good mining property on the
Mormon Basin creek.  He is highly esteemed wherever he is known and is one of
the substantial and upright men of the county.  Mr. Bradley is one of the
veterans of the Indian wars and was always ready to go to the front in time of
impending danger.
 

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2006 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.