. Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany. everdesired to fill public office. His profession was his pride, his ambition,and his delight. Beyond it and his family ties, he took interest in thecause of temperance and the development of intelligence through thedissemination of knowledge in public schools. Popular education washis dream, and to the last it commanded his interest and his wifes maiden name was Miss Ellen Totten. She was born in1815, in Garrard county, Ky., and was the worthy and exemplary wifeso gifted and good a man deserved
. Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany. everdesired to fill public office. His profession was his pride, his ambition,and his delight. Beyond it and his family ties, he took interest in thecause of temperance and the development of intelligence through thedissemination of knowledge in public schools. Popular education washis dream, and to the last it commanded his interest and his wifes maiden name was Miss Ellen Totten. She was born in1815, in Garrard county, Ky., and was the worthy and exemplary wifeso gifted and good a man deserved to possess. She was a notedbeauty and belle in her youth. They were blessed with five children,four daughters and one son. The daughters were all married happily,bearing respectively the names of Batchelor, Newell, Morrow, andMayes. The .son, William OConnell Bradley, also married Miss Mar-garet R. Duncan, of Garrard county. Robert McAfee Bradleysfather and grandfather were both Revolutionary soldiers, wlio servedtheir country with honor and distinction. He, himself, was as thor-. ROBERT McAfee Bradley. HON. WILLIAM oCONNELL BRADLEY. 23 oughly known as a lawyer as any man in Central Kentucky. Hisability was not only acknowledged, but his charities were great, andhe had many admirers and friends in all classes of society. He wasthe author of a book which bears the humorous title of GrannyShorts Barbecue, which was published in this city by Messrs. Bradley& Gilbert. He was a singularly-eloquent man, and if the subjoinedquotation bears me not out in my assertion, then do I admit I knownot the quality of eloquence. Demosthenes, Cicero, Patrick Henry,Webster, Tom Marshall, and all or any of those great minds of thepast or the present age, whose silver tongues have inspired the heartsof men to cherish, honor, and love truth, never surpassed the grandeurof thought, the felicity of expression, and the nobility of sentimentcontained in the utterances of Mr. Bradley, when he felt that r
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