JOHN L. BRADBURY
John L. Bradbury was an engineer of
exceptional technical and practical ability and was actively associated with
important engineering work in California, as well as with similar constructive
and development enterprise in Mexico and South American countries. He gained
distinction and broad reputation in his profession, and was a resident of San
Francisco at the time of his death in 1916.
Mr. Bradbury was born in the historic old
city of Salem, Massachusetts, on the 6th of August 1844, and in his
youth he received excellent academic and technical educational advantages. He
continued to follow his profession of engineer principally in the East until
1882 when he came to California, he having later been retained in connection
with the carrying out of large engineering projects in Mexico and South
America. He was a man of marked executive ability and civic liberality, was a
republican in politics and was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.
Mr. Bradbury chose as his wife Mayes, a
daughter of Harry W. May, who was one of the gallant band of forty-niners in
California and who was one of the honored pioneer citizens of this state at the
time of his death in 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Bradbury became the parents of two
children Edison and Edith, and since the death of her husband Mrs. Bradbury has
continued her residence in San Francisco, where her home is at 1719 Pacific
Avenue.
Source: "The San
Francisco Bay Region" by Bailey Millard Vol. 3 page 104-107. Published by
The American Historical Society, Inc. 1924.
© 2004 Louise Shoemaker