. Cartoons by Bradley, cartoonist of the Chicago Daily News; . his chaotic but virilecommunity the Bradleys made a new home. In that same year, 1857, Lyman Baird, another New Haven man whoseambitions led him westward, became a citizen of Chicago, and a year laterwent into partnership with L. D. Olmstead, who in 1855 had established areal estate business. Mr. Olmstead died in 1862, whereuptm Mr. Bairdpersuaded Francis Bradley — then auditor of the Chicago, Rock Island &Pacific Railroad — to enter partnership witli him. Thus began a businessrelationship, and a friendship, that was to continue fo
. Cartoons by Bradley, cartoonist of the Chicago Daily News; . his chaotic but virilecommunity the Bradleys made a new home. In that same year, 1857, Lyman Baird, another New Haven man whoseambitions led him westward, became a citizen of Chicago, and a year laterwent into partnership with L. D. Olmstead, who in 1855 had established areal estate business. Mr. Olmstead died in 1862, whereuptm Mr. Bairdpersuaded Francis Bradley — then auditor of the Chicago, Rock Island &Pacific Railroad — to enter partnership witli him. Thus began a businessrelationship, and a friendship, that was to continue for many years, and wasto establish in Chicagos shifting soil one of its permanent things: the suc-cessful real estate firm now known as Baird and Warner. One would liketo dwell upon the struggles and triumphs of that pair of pioneers whosenames were so long linked as Baird and Bradley, Real Estate, to tell howthey breasted calamities like the civil war and the great fire of 71. Butthis is not their story. And Luther Bradleys destiny, after a few years. As .\ Roy with His Sistick As a Man, 1S75 A I IloMIC IN , I() 1 4 In His Oi-iKK, AS Caktuonist for MlCLHOfRNE PrNCIl In Kvanston, iHyg. wnii OF A SiSTKK BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH when it seemed about to be bound up with that business enterprise, branchedaway. AFTER a few years of residence in the city, Francis Bradley took hisjl\. family to a new house in Evanston. It stood on a lot of nearly halfa block frontage in Hinman Avenue south of Church Street. A fascinatinglot this was, shaded by Evanstons eternal oaks; full of sweet odors and sing-ing birds. There was country all about, woodland and meadow, and to theeast, almost, it seemed, at the edge of the Bradley property, the lake shim-mered beyond the trees. One hears of Luther Bradley growing up in Evanston, a boy with brownwavy hair and dancing brown eyes, who shot up presently to an astonishingheight, and who had just the best time a bo
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