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24 Historical Souvenir of Greenville, Illinois.
James Bradford,
Founder of the banking house of Bradford and Son, who came to Greenville
in 1 824 and served in the Black Hawk war. He was circuit clerk
and recorder, county clerk, master itl chancery, county commi-^sioner,
member of the Illinois Legislature, and county judge. He was the first
mavor of Greenville, elected in 1872. He died January 29, 1889.
"The Cholera, this mighty agent
of death, has spread destruction in
our village since our last issue. Our
lively and business like town has
put on the habiliments of mourning
and sadness.
"The first case of cholera, in our
town, was the stage driver to whom
we referred last week. He is recovering.
The next, we also alluded
to last week—a young woman
named Sarah Woosley, living with
the family of Charles Holies Esq.
She was taken on Friday morning
last and died on Saturday morning
about two o'clock. This was the
first death from cholera.
"Early the same morning a child
of Dr. Sprague's, two or three years
old was taken and died in five or six
hours. The same day Charles Horton
Esq., an infant child of C.
Holies, Esq., a daughter of Mrs.
Kellam's aged 11 or 12 years, and
I. N. Reed were all taken. The infant
died in the afternoon some
time; Mr. Horton died about 11
o'clock and Isadora Kellam about
12 o'clock the same night. Mr. Reed
died about four o'clock Sunday
rafternoon.
"There have been other cases of
cholera but these are all the deaths,
and these all occurred in less than
48 hours."
In the issue of the Journal of
July 27, 1849 the editor says:
"Since our last Issue there have
been two more deaths from cholera,
Mrs. Park and Mr. Hopton, but no
cases have come to our knowledge
since Monday last."
There were 13 cases of cholera
and eight deaths. The Journal says:
"Some of our citizens have, perhaps,
become unnecessarily alarmed and
a number have left with their families.
It is due to our physicians to
state that they have attended the
sick during the present crisis, with
an industry and self-denial worthy
of all praise. Some of our citizens
have also distinguished themselves
for their unyielding and disinterested
care for the sick and if from
this worthy number we were requested
to designate, we might
speak the names of Rev. Robert
Stewart and Elam Rust, Esq."
To these names we may also add
the names of J. P. Garland, Wyatt
Causey, Isaac Enloe and others.
Greenville had splendid physicians
in the forties and fifties. Dr.
Drake, Dr. Fitch, Dr. Brooks and
Dr. Brown. Dr. Brooks met death
by suffocation in 1874 at his home
in the brick buildin'? that stood
across the alley east of the old Baptist
church.
ercctivtllc tn the fifties.
1 NCREASED business on every
' hand marks the period from 18 50
to 18 60. In 1S50 the first govern-
Bradford and Son's Bank
The bank of Bradford & Son was founded by James Bradford and
son Samuel in 1867, in the frame building one door south of the present location,
but moved into the present location soon after the business was
established. At the death of James Bradford on January 29, 1889, Samuel
Bradford became the head of the institution and so remained until his
death September 14, 1891. John S. Bradford, who was admitted to the
firm in 1890, then became the head of the banking house and so remains
at the present time.