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CALVIN E., BRADLEY, M.D.
Vol. 5, p. 1856

The medical profession of Kiowa County, Oklahoma, is capably
represented at Mountain View by Dr. Calvin E. Bradley, who although
one of the younger members of the profession has made a substantial
reputation for himself in professional circles as well as in the
confidence of the people of his community. Born in Phelps County,
Missouri, April 16, 1885, he comes honestly by his predilection for
calling, being the son and grandson of physicians and the bearer of a
name, which has been honored in medicine and surgery.

On the paternal side, Doctor Bradley is a grandson of the founder of
the family in the United States, Dr. Calvin Bradley, a native of
England, who emigrated to the United States, first settled in North
Carolina and subsequently moved to Georgia, where he was engaged in
the practice of his profession for many years, and where his death
occurred. Doctor Bradley's maternal great-grandfather Burns was the
emigrant of the family from
Scotland. Dr. W. A. Bradley, the father of Dr. Calvin E. Bradley,
was born in North Carolina, in 1852, and from his native state
removed to Georgia, subsequently going, in 1880, to Phelps County,
Missouri, where he was married. He was a graduate of the Southern
Medical College, one of the distinguished institutions of Atlanta,
Georgia, and after eight years of practice in Phelps County, moved
his family in 1888 to Houston, Texas County, Missouri, where he
continued to be engaged in practice until his death, in 1911. He was
an able and thorough practitioner and held a substantial place in the
ranks of his calling. A democrat in politics, he filled various local
offices within the gift of his fellow townsmen, while his fraternal
connection was with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Doctor Bradley married Miss Elizabeth BURNS, who was born in 1865,
in Missouri, and died at Houston, that state, in 1888, daughter of
Dr. Edward Burns, who for many years was a physician and surgeon of
Newburg, Missouri, where his death occurred. Two children were born
to Dr. W.A. and Elizabeth Bradley: Calvin E., of this review; and
Kate who became the wife of C.F. PEAKE, and resides in Texas County,
Missouri, where Mr. Peake is county superintendent of schools.

Calvin E. Bradley his early education in the public schools of
Houston, Missouri, where he was graduated from the high school with
the class of 1901. He received his early medical training under the
able preceptorship of his father, and enrolled as a student at Barnes
Medical College, St. Louis, Missouri, where he was graduated with the
class of 1905, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Doctor
Bradley began active practice at Newburg, Phelps County, Missouri,
where his paternal grandfather had been well known as a practitioner
for years, but in 1908 removed to Memphis, Tennessee, where he
remained during that and the following year. In 1909 he went to
Dewey, Oklahoma, where he gave up professional work for a time to
engage in the oil and drug business, but in 1912 came to Mountain
View and resumed practice, and has continued to the present time in a
constantly growing general medical and surgical business. He occupies
well-appointed offices in the Reynolds Building on Main Street, where
he has every appliance and instrument for diagnosis and treatment of
diseases. Doctor Bradley keeps in close touch with every advancement
made in medical or surgical work and is a close student of the
science, besides holding membership in the organizations of his
calling. He has been an active democrat, but his only public service
has been that of coroner, an office which he filled while a resident
of Phelps County, Missouri. He is popular in fraternal circle, and is
a member of the local bodies of the Independent Order of Odd Fellow
and the Knights of Pythias.

Doctor Bradley was married February 4, 1916, to Miss Louise STINSON,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Stinson, of Mountain View, Oklahoma.

Transcribed for OKGenWeb by Earline Sparks Barger, January 2001.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916).