Nevada Genealogy Trails Elko County Lewis Lee Bradley Biography

LEWIS LEE BRADLEY, one of the well known and highly respected business men of the community, is a member of the firm of Bradley & Dunn, owners of the Commercial Hotel, the leading hotel in Elko. He is also extensively engaged in the stock business in this county, and is numbered among the leading and public-spirited citizens of his adopted county. He is a native son of California, his birth occurring in Stockton on the 17th of November, 1866. He is a grandson of ex-Governor L. R. Bradley, of Nevada, and a son of John R. Bradley, who married Miss Betty Hitt. The family were Virginians.

Lewis Lee Bradley attended the public schools during the period of his boyhood and youth, and later became a student in the Pacific Business College in San Francisco. After completing his education he embarked in the cattle business at Deeth, Nevada, in company with his brother, J. D. Bradley, and his brother-in-law. J. H. Clemins. This company was organized in 1900, but all had previously been engaged in the cattle business, and the company at one time owned between seven and twenty thousand head of cattle. During the hard winter of 1899-1900, however, the firm suffered heavy financial losses, losing eighty per cent of the cattle, and Mr. Bradley and his father were in very straightened circumstances at one time. But they have since been eminently successful in the stock business, and are now breeding the Hereford and Durham cattle. In company with Mr. Dunn. Mr. Bradley purchased the Commercial Hotel, and they are now doubling its size. It is built of brick, being one hundred by one hundred feet in dimensions, contains sixty-five sleeping rooms, a large dining room, office and all modern conveniences, and is considered the leading hotel of Elko. In his fraternal relations Mr. Bradley is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Masonic fraternity, having been made a Mason in Elko Lodge No. 15, F. & A. M., in 1900. Although not a seeker after political preferment, he gives a stalwart support to the Democratic party, and is an active worker in the ranks of his party.

On the 25th 01 February, 1891, Mr Bradley was united in marriage to Miss Mary H. Armstrong, who was born in Star valley. Elko county, and is a daughter of Benjamin Armstrong, also of this county. They have two daughters, Beulah and Alice May. The family reside in a commodious brick residence in Elko, and they enjoy a wide circle of friends and acquaintances.

Source:
A History of the State of Nevada: Its Resources and People
By Thomas Wren, Lewis Publishing Company
Published by The Lewis publishing company, 1904