Why the Bradley Inn?

“Walter H. Bradley, who was born in Roscoe, Winnebago county, Illinois, May 14,1863, has had his full share of varied and eventful experiences of life, and is now numbered among the solid and substantial citizens of Larchwood, Lyon county.Henry Bradley, the father of Walter H., came of an old American family, and was a farmer all his life. During the Civil War he acted as a recruiting agent for the general government. His death occurred in 1868.

Walter H. Bradley grew up and attended school in his native town until he reached the age of fifteen years. In 1878 he came to Rock Rapids, Lyon county, where he completed his schooling at the Rock Rapids high school, and in 1884, removed to Watertown, South Dakota, where he engaged in a machinery business, and continued in that line until 1888, when he returned to Lyon county, and became the proprietor of a lumber yard at Larchwood, in which he was quite successful, and devoted himself to it until January 1, 1902. Mr. Bradley became vice president of the Savings Bank, First National Bank of Rock Rapids, the George Savings Bank, the State Bank of Hills, the Alford Bank, the Bank of Beaver Creek, and the Farmers' Bank of Inwood.

Mr. Bradley was married September 25, 1890, to Miss Tressie Byerly, born in Grant county, Wisconsin, September 27, 1865. They have one child, a bright and winsome little daughter, Anna L., who was born in Larchwood. He is a Democrat, and has been mayor of Larchwood for five years and a member of the town council for three years. As one of the older settlers he has seen the county grow from almost a wilderness to a prosperous and well ordered community, and his own peaceful and well ordered life has helped not a little in working out this great result.”