Braley, Claude Arthur

BRALEY, WHITCOMB, THOMPSON

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Date: 8/27/2009 at 10:21:51

Braley, Claude Arthur

Longfellow said the talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do, without any thought of fame. Illustrative of this sentiment has been the life of Claude Arthur Braley, one of the young generation of farmers living in Kellogg Township, Jasper County. In looking over his well-kept place the stranger readily observes that he has done well whatever he has turned his attention to and therefore success has attended his efforts.

Mr. Braley was born in this vicinity, June 7, 1882, the son of Joseph and Marion (Whitcomb) Braley, the father born in Vermont, and the mother in Indiana. The elder Braley was a capitalist and became well-known, having come to Jasper County some years ago, and here his death occurred on December 22,1906.

The son, Claude A. Braley, of this review, grew to maturity in his home community and was educated in the public schools here. He began life for himself by working at the elevator in Kellogg for six years, then he turned his attention to farming, which he has continued to the present time, first locating on forty acres of land near his present farm, and in 1910 he moved to his present farm of eighty acres in section 25, Kellogg Township, which he is rapidly improving and on which he is making a good living. He has a very neat home and he keeps some good livestock.

Mr. Braley was married on October 3, 1906, to Jessie May Thompson, who was born in Greenwood, Wisconsin, the daughter of George and Ida Thompson, both natives of Wisconsin. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Braley, a son named Joseph Gayland, whose birth occurred on January 3, 1908.

Politically, Mr. Braley is a Democrat, and in fraternal matters he belongs to the Masonic order and the Woodmen of the World, standing high in each, for he endeavors to carry their teachings into his every day dealings with his fellow men. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 1068.