ARTHUR BRADSHAW. Among the most intelligent and persevering of our school teachers in Wayne County is the gentleman whose name appears at the had of this sketch, having been engaged in the business almost every year since 1808, and is likely to follow the same avocation for many years to come. He is the son of Greenup and Mary A. (Boze) Bradshaw, to whom were born fourteen children, eleven of whom are now living, viz.;
Greenup, Sr., the son of Thomas, came to Jasper with his parents in 1819; lived in Wayne County until his death, which occurred in 1876, and was buried in the Bradshaw Cemetery. He was a farmer, a lifelong Methodist, a patriot. He served in the Black Hawk war, and is well remembered as a man of sterling qualities and strict integrity.
Mary Boze was born in 1819, in Tennessee, and married in 1837.
Subject's grandmother, Ann Bradshaw, was a daughter of Judge McGahey, of Kentucky, and her brother, Arthur, was a soldier in the war of 1812.
Subject entered Company D, Fortieth Illinois Infantry, as a private; was promoted to Lieutenant, and served four years, being engaged in all the battles of that famous regiment, including Shiloh, and occompanied the army in Sherman's "march to the sea."
Subject attended McKendree College as a student after his discharge from the army, and has been a constant seeker after knowledge, adding continually to his extensive store of information.
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; is identified with Republican party, and is a Prohibitionist.
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