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JUDGE BRADWELL IS DEADCHICAGO PIONEER AND LEGAL EXPERT PASSES AWAY.Had Lived In Metropolis Since 1834— Was an Indian Fighter of Note— Leaves Two Children.Chicago, Nov. 30,~James B. Brad-well, former county judge, publisher of the Chicago Legal News and pio-turesque pioneer, who had lived in Chicago since 1834, died Friday at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. F. A. Helmer. He was 79 years old. Pneumonia an^ kidney disorder caused death, although the veteran had not been, in-hip usual - vigorous-health 'for. two years. Present'when he died were his children, Thomas Bradwell, former justice of the peace, and Mrs. Helmer. Attending him were his grandson, Dr. James B. Bradwell and Charles E. Kablke.His wife, who was MisB Myra Colby, was distinguished as the first woman lawyer in the United States; She edited the Legal News until, her. death in 1894.Mr. Bradwell was an Englishman, having been born April 16, 1828, in Loughborough, coming to the United States with his parents, however, when he was two years old. After a stay of three years at Ithaca, N. Y.. the family came west to Jacksonville* 111., traveling in a “prairie schooner” drawn by a yoke of oxen and a span of horses. The stay in Jacksonville was short and. the .same conveyance wh|ch cafried.'the!pvftoiO: the east was again\puf into domihissibn' and beadedfor Chicago, tying up on -the lake shore, where Randolph street now Is.Indians and wolves beset them and their days were passed in danger and physical discomfort. Trekking on, the Bradwells journeyed In their schooner to a point on the Desplaines river near Wheeling, where a tract of l government land was pre-empted. Although the site of the homestead on1the Desplaines river Is not a great: cway from the present limits of Chi-, eago,, yet in that day the farm was e ; long ■ way off . from Fort ? Dearborn.£lt; /
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Atlantic Daily Democrat
Atlantic, Iowa, US
Sat, Nov 30, 1907
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