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B<\/strong>RADLEY, Robert Henry, <\/strong>retired merchant and planter;\u00a0 born in Scott Co., Ky., Jan. 23, 1819; English descent ; son of William<\/strong> and Sarah (Jenkins) BRADLEY<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents Thomas<\/strong> and Philadelphi (Ficklin) BRADLEY<\/strong>, maternal grandparents Henry<\/strong> and Martha (Stapp) JENKINS<\/strong>; received common school education; began his business career as a farmer boy, later clerked in a store in Lexington, Ky., until 1836, when he moved to Island 63, Miss. river, where he kept a wood yard, in 1837 returned to Lexington, Ky., and again clerked in dry goods store; in fall of 1839 went to Texas; served as clerk of District Clerk of Victoria Co., Texas, 1840-1; entered the mercantile business at Gonzales, Texas, in 1842; in 1843 went to New York with a shipload of pecans, thence to Franklin, Tenn.; in1844 was in partnership with R. & S. Graham, dry goods merchants, in which business he continued seven years; in 1876 he held the power of attorney of the firm of Graham, Black & Co., cotton factors, in New Orleans, being corresponding clerk there in 1876-7; has owned and operated a large plantation in Tunica Co., Miss., since 1858; formerly engaged in farming and merchandising at Franklin, Tenn.; now retired; married Margaret Ann PERKINS<\/strong> Aug 1, 1844; in politics he was originally a Whig, now Independent Democrat; while in Texas he had many experiences with Indians and Mexicans before the annexation of Texas to the United States; member of the Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Franklin BRADLEY, Robert Henry, retired merchant and planter;\u00a0 born in Scott Co., Ky., Jan. 23, 1819; English descent ; son of William and Sarah (Jenkins) BRADLEY; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents Thomas and Philadelphi (Ficklin) BRADLEY, maternal grandparents Henry and Martha (Stapp) JENKINS; received common school education; began his business career as a farmer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4405,232,4419],"tags":[4323,1613,196,424,1614],"class_list":{"0":"post-3170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surname-b","7":"category-williamson","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-bradley","10":"tag-ficklin","11":"tag-jenkins","12":"tag-perkins","13":"tag-stapp","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14727,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions\/14727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}