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William Lafferty wrote: September 8, 2024, 1:01 pm The first Bradley Transportation Company was dissolved in 1913, as I wrote. Its last vessel, M. A. Bradley, was sold to the Merrimac Steamship Company in December 1915 when owned by Alva Steamship Company, managed by Morris Bradley. There was no connection whatsoever between the fleets. Where in the world did you read that Alva Bradley was "...a patriarch of the Bradley Transportation Line formed in 1912 as a subsidiary of Michigan Limestone?" That's just nuts.

William Lafferty wrote: September 7, 2024, 1:48 pm The two have nothing to do with one another. Captain Bradley had one son, Morris, born at Cleveland in 1859, who took control of his father's estate upon his death in 1885, which included the Bradley Transportation Company incorporated at Cleveland 2 April 1883 and dissolved 28 November 1913. M. A. Bradley sold off the estate's maritime holdings to focus upon real estate and banking. The Michigan Limestone-affilated Bradley Transportation Company was incorporated at Cleveland 19 January 1916 and in 1920 United States Steel Corporation acquired its stock through Michigan Limestone that owned the stock in Bradley Transportation. Bradley chartered its vessels to Michigan Limestone on ten year contracts. Carl Bradley was born at Chicago in 1860 and attended Allen's Academy there, a private polytechnic. He worked his was through the ranks as a draftsman and engineer designing gas and refrigeration plants as well as, significantly, dredging equipment When he was dispatched to Calcite as a consultant he had recently been president of Samuel L. Moore & Sons shipyard at Newark, New Jersey, and lived in Elizabeth.