The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 409 GEORGE R. BRADSHAW. George R. Bradshaw, who has been successfully identified with agricultural and commercial interests in the Yakima valley for the past quarter of a century, is now engaged in the transfer business at Kennewick, where he owns an extensive storage plant and also deals in coal and wood. His birth occurred in Rogersville, Tennessee, on the 19th of February, 1872, his parents being Benjamin A. and Mary J. (Larkin) Bradshaw, both of whom passed away in Tennessee. By occupation the father was a farmer. George R. Bradshaw attended the public schools in the acquirement of an education and on attaining his majority came to the Yakima valley, arriving in Ellensburg, Washington, in July, 1893. He began working as a farm hand for others but at length took up a homestead and subsequently became the owner of other land, his undertakings as an agriculturist being attended with gratifying and well merited nessee, on the 19th of February, 1872, his parents being Benjamin A. and Mary J. the hardware business at Ellensburg, where he conducted an enterprise of that character for a decade. In 1913 he again bought a farm and was engaged in the work of the fields until he sold the place in 1916 to become identified with business interests at Kennewick, purchasing the Kennewick Transfer Company. He has since conducted a large storage plant, as well as dealing in coal, wood, etc., and his business has steadily grown until it is now one of extensive and profitable proportions. Sound judgment, enterprise and industry have characterized him in all of his business affairs, so that he has won a well merited measure of prosperity which places him among the substantial and representative citizens of Benton county. On the 12th of January, 1898, Mr. Bradshaw was united in marriage to Miss Colorado Packwood, a daughter of Samuel T. and Martha Finetta (Holmes) Packwood, who took up their abode at Ellensburg in 1874, the father being a pioneer farmer of the Yakima valley. Mr. and Mrs. Bradshaw have become the parents of three children, namely: Lizzie, who is the wife of John B. Floyd and resides in Kennewick; and Lucretia and Dorothy, both at home. In his political views Mr. Bradshaw is a stanch republican. He held the office of city treasurer while a resident of Ellensburg and is now serving as treasurer of Kennewick, making a most excellent record in that connection. Fraternally he is identified with Ellensburg Lodge No. 1102, B. P. O. E., the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America. He has been an interested witness of the development of this section of the state during a quarter of a century and has won many friends as the years have gone by. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.