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Nathan B. Bradley (1831-1906)
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Michigan Biographies Michigan Historical Commission - 1924 (Page 102) NATHAN B. BRADLEY ________ Senator from the Twenty-seventh District, 1867-8; member of Congress, 1873-5 and 1875-7. Was born in Lee, Mass., May 28, 1831. He moved with his father's family to Ohio in 1835. He received a common school education and came to Michigan in 1852. He settled at Bay City in 1858. He served in the village and city Council and was elected Mayor in 1865. He was elected State Senator and served in the session of 1867. In 1872 and 1874 he was elected to Congress and served in the 43d and 44th sessions. In that position he made a good record. He engaged in the manufacture of lumber and salt

LIbrary of Congress Biography BRADLEY, Nathan Ball, a Representative from Michigan; born in Lee, Berkshire County, Mass., May 28, 1831; moved with his parents to Lorain County, Ohio, in 1835; attended the common schools; moved to Wisconsin in 1849; employed in a sawmill in the pine region; returned to Ohio in 1850 and built and operated a sawmill until 1852, when he moved to Lexington, Mich., and engaged in the manufacture of lumber; moved to St. Charles, in the Saginaw Valley, in 1855 and engaged in the lumber industry; purchased a mill in Bay City, Mich., which he operated from 1858 to 1864; engaged in the salt industry in Bay City; justice of the peace three terms, a supervisor one term, an alderman three terms, and the first mayor of Bay City after it obtained its charter in 1865; member of the State senate 1866-1868; engaged in banking in 1867; vice president of the First National Bank of Bay City; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for renomination in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; again engaged in the lumber business in Bay City and also was instrumental in establishing the first beet-sugar factory in the State; died in Bay City, Bay County, Mich., November 8, 1906; interment in Elm Lawn Cemetery.