Bios: OSCAR EVANS BRADLEY, D. O., 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      OSCAR EVANS BRADLEY, D. O.,
  
  [p. 765] the only practitioner of the science of osteopathy at Ellwood
  City, has met with remarkable success in his profession as is evidenced
  by his record that shows that some 250 patients are treated by him per
  month. Dr. Bradliey was born at Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri,
  August 30, 1874, and is a son of James H. and Nancy Minerva (Baker) Bradley.
  
  The parents of Dr. Bradley both survive and reside on the father's farm
  in Missouri. The family is an old one in that State, and the grandfather
  was a captain in the Confederate army during the Civil War. James H.
  Bradley and wife had a family of four sons and one daughter, namely:
  Oscar Evans; Augustus C., who resides at Bible Grove, Missouri; Everett
  L., is also a resident of Bible Grove; Cora W., who is the wife of Dr.
  M. P. Browning, residing at McComb, Illinois; Leo I., who resides at
  Downing, Missouri; and Atlee B., who is a resident of Bible Grove.
  
  Dr. Bradley's elementary education was obtained in the district schools
  near his home and later he entered the State Normal School at
  Kirksville, where he remained until he had completed the work of the
  senior year. In 1902 he engaged in teaching school, keeping up with his
  classes in the Normal School in the meanwhile, after which he attended
  the American School of Osteopathy, at Kirksville. The school is still
  presided over by the venerable Dr. A. T. Still, its founder, who, in the
  current month (August, 1908) celebrates his eightieth birthday. In
  January, 1903, Dr. Bradley took a post graduate course in osteopathy, at
  St. Louis, and entered into practice at McComb, Illinois. In October,
  1906, he came to Ellwood City and established his office in the Dambach
  Building, on Lawrence Avenue. As a practitioner in a new school of
  healing, Dr. Bradley has had many prejudices to overcome but his
  remarkable success, curing cases which had been given up by physicians
  and surgeons as hopeless, established a confidence that subsequent
  developments went far to make lasting.
  
  Dr. Bradley married Miss Anna May Browning, who was born and reared near
  Memphis, Missouri. She is a daughter of William Perry and Sarah E.
  (Harrington) Browning. Her father served in the Union army during the
  Civil War, as a member of Company C, Twenty-seventh Regiment, Illinois
  Volunteer Infantry. He died in June, 1906. His widow survives and
  resides at Memphis, Missouri. There were six children born to Mr. and
  Mrs. Browning, namely: Alfred H., deceased; Charles P. and Albert C.,
  both residing in Missouri; Etta, wife of Edward M. Smith, residing in
  Oklahoma; Martin P., who is engaged in the practice of osteopathy at
  McComb, Illinois; and Mrs. Bradley. Dr. and Mrs. Bradley have two sons,
  Horton Kenneth and Raymond DeLoss. They are members of the Christian
  Church at Ellwood City.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
 Updated: 18 Dec 2001