Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-02-14
A REMARKABLE RECORD.
Sixty. Five Years 4 Citizen OF haoweI and
Never on Train.

JATaylor Bradley. a genial business man
g wears Of age, = Of which he has been
4 citizen of IalloWcll, says H. never IN
his life. was aboard a train nf ears. was
never as far south as Richmond, Me. nor
farther west than Winthrop or Readiield.
Mr.. BraIey was born in belgrade, Me.
and came I" this city some - years ago
making Kim one Of its oldest citizens and
hc has also been one Of IDS busiest and
most hard working men. His parents
named him J. Taylor III honor Of Elder
Elias Taylor Of those early days who
was the first male white child born IN
Augusta.
Mr.. Braley for about ten ycaIs Of his
life worked on the river and at the saw
mill of Perkins x Wheeler in the more
palmy days, when they run six up-and-
down saws ana were doing an immense
lumber business. These We're the days
when Hallowcl was quite a booming
place. He was quite noted then for his
great strength and puiclness of motion,
beating al the hands at the mill in bund-
ling shingles. At one tim, in exhibiting
his superior strength he had them pile
23G bricks Oh 4 wheelbarrow, tile com
bined weight Of the brick being 1850
pounds, and they were obliged t. pack
them well out toward the ends ~ the
handles Of the barrow. Mr.. Bradley then
had two heavy men, who weighed some
10, or more each. sit on the bricks with
their backs leaning against him as he
took hold Of the handles, thereby prac-
tically placing their whole weight where
he must lift them. and he then raised
the barrow handles bricks and men.
After these years on the river he en-
tered into the soap business and now
owns with his son. a soap factory in
which business they have prospered
The old gentleman used to work
sixteen and eighteen houIs a day and is
now hale and hearty an. with the excep-
ton Of a lamoness Of the ankle. would
feel about as well as ever 1t is very in
teresting to talk with him as he has been
SO active and a,so u great reader of pa
pers. He has for many years been a con-
slant reader of the kennebec Daily Jour
nal. Mr. Braley take great delight in his
home life having built the house he now
lives in nearly sixty years ago ana a few
years thereafter married and during the
past fifty odd years, has been blessed
with one of the best of companions, an
excellent housekeeper and a hard worker
They have about the same as raised two
generations of children their own and
those of their son. who has always liveu
with them and whose wife died some
thirteen years ago. Mrs. Braley who
lately died is sadly missed and mourned
She was loving mother, one who was
willing to suffer ana sacrifice for others
She had been sick much and yet being
blessed with strong constitution lived to
a ripe age. y short time ago she under
Went successful surgical operation and
mad cancer removed from her nose ana
had about recovered from this when her
HE was cut short by an attack Of pneu-
monia which was the seventh time she
had suffered from this disease
The only long journey Mr. Bralcy ever
undertook was some forty years ago
when he went by team to the Aroostook
with his brother and was absent from
home about six weeks He has n few
times in his life been as far west as VIM
throp and several times attended the