Dr. Allen M. Bradley

SHARP, BRADLEY, DALE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 12/6/2015 at 20:06:04

Northwestern Iowa
Its History and Traditions
1804 – 1926

Dr. Allen M. Bradley, one of the successful and popular physicians and surgeons of Sioux City, has gained a large and representative patronage throughout this locality and won a high place in the regards of his professional colleagues. He was born at Waupecon, Indiana, in 1869, and is a son of John and Margaret (Sharp) Bradley, both of whom were natives of Ohio. They moved to Indiana in the early “60’s, the father engaging in the timber and lumber business. He was killed in a railroad accident in 1882 and his wife died in 1881.

Of their six children, Dr. Bradley is the third in order of birth. He attended the public schools of Wabash, Indiana, and then engaged in the drug business in that place. Later he joined the William S. Merrill Company, of Cincinnati, having charge of their drug department for about a year, at the end of which time he went to Marion, Indiana, and was associated with his brother in the drug business for about twelve years, having stores at Marion, Wabash and Swayzee. He had made up his mind to take up the practice of medicine and to this end he matriculated in the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, where he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1910, after which he took a post-graduate course in abdominal surgery and obstetrics in that city. He next engaged in the active practice of his profession in Chicago, where he remained until 1920, when he came to Sioux City.

Doctor Bradley was united in marriage to Miss Katherine Dale and they are the parents of two children. Chester D., who now lives in Chicago, is a veteran of the World War, having served as a sergeant in the commissary department of the Thirty-third Division in the Army of Occupation, Germany. The daughter, Kathryn, is attending high school in Wabash, Indiana. The Doctor is associated with St. Vincent’s hospital, Sioux City. Politically he gives his support to the Republican Party and is actively interested in everything affecting the welfare and upbuilding of his community. During the period of his practice in this city he has gained a host of warm and loyal friends, who esteem him for his professional ability and his worth as a man and citizen.