Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Bradley, Andrew J. September 9, 1868 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

  ANDREW J. BRADLEY, editor of the "Daily News," of Pottstown, 
was born in Philadelphia, September 9, 1868. He is the son 
of Andrew and Ellen (Walls) Bradley, both natives of 
Philadelphia. They had two children Sallie, wife of Frank J. 
Kerr, of Philadelphia; and Andrew J. Bradley.

  Andrew Bradley (father) was a blacksmith by trade, and 
later raised and trained race horses. He now lives retired 
at Elkton, Maryland. His wife died in 1895, being sixty-five 
years old at the time of her death. They were both 
Catholics. The paternal grandfather of Andrew J. Bradley was 
born in County Derry, Ireland. The maternal grandfather was 
also a native of Ireland.

  Andrew J. Bradley spent the first part of his life in 
Philadelphia. At the age of sixteen, after completing his 
education in the public schools, he applied himself to the 
trade of a printer, a business in which he has been engaged 
ever since he worked in the job office of Allen, Lane Scott, 
where he learned the trade. He also worked on the 
Philadelphia "Press" and "Inquirer."

  He in 1899 entered the office of the "Daily News" as 
foreman of the composing room, and showed his ability to be 
of such t high order that in 1901 he became the editor of 
the paper.

  He is a member of the Republican Ward Workers' 
Association, Missimer Assembly, A. C. U., and the Press 
League of Bucks and Montgomery counties. He was one of the 
organizers and the first president of the Pottstown 
Typographical Union. In religious faith he is a member of 
the St. Aloysius Roman Catholic church. Politically he is a 
Republican. He resides at the Commercial Hotel.

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