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H. W. Bradley
Obituary
Mr. H. W. Bradley died at his home in Alameda last Monday evening. The decease
of this well known and highly esteemed gentleman will be regretted by a very
large section of the community. Mr. Bradley was a pioneer photographer of San
Francisco, and opened a gallery here in February 1850. The business from its
incipiency was profitable, for Mr. Bradley had made a close study of the
photographic art in New Orleans, where his early youth was spent. His success in
this city was continued and uninterrupted. In 1860 Mr. Rulofson was taken into
partnership, and the firm of Bradley & Rulofson was recognized as the leading
photographic establishment on the Coast. Their work became so excellent that it
was awarded the first prize at the Centennial World’s Fair at Philadelphia in
1876. In 1878 Mr. Bradley retired from business, and became a resident of
Alameda. He was nearly 78 years of age at the time of his death, and had been a
confirmed invalid for over three years. This long illness he bore with the most
exemplary patience, and continued all through his suffering the same amiable,
courteous gentleman. Mr. Bradley was a native of Wilmington, N.C. He leaves a
widow, three sons and a daughter to mourn his loss. Few men in this community
were more esteemed than H. W. Bradley, whose disposition was of such charitable
and kindly nature that he was never known to speak an unkind word of any one,
never mind what the provocation may have been, and whose life was such that none
could say in justice an unkind word about this genial, highly cultivated
gentleman. He was honest, true and just, every ready to assist those who needed
assistance, loyal to his friends, and in every respect a fine and pleasing type
of the pioneer Californian.
San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser
May 2, 1891
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