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- Shortly after his birth the family moved to Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee. On 29 September 1814, James enlisted as a private in Captain Thomas Scurr's Company, 2nd Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Gunmen. This regiment was commanded by Colonel Thomas Williamson and fought under General Coffee's command during the Battle of New Orleans. James was discharged on 27 April 1815 at Nashville, Tennessee. James received a land grant for 80 acres of land under the Act of September 1850, and located it in Jackson County, Illinois. James moved near Shiloh Hill in Randolph County, Illinois Territory in 1817.
Like his father, James Bradley was a stone mason by trade, and for many years lived on his farm and manufactured monuments and chimney foundations. He was the first man to do stone cutting and monument work in the southern part of the state, and was also a maker of grindstones. He was very involved in local politics. He was appointed numerous times to County Juries between 1825 and 1840. He was the head of the Bradley Road District in 1827, and was appointed Fence Viewer in Gognia Township in 1830. He served as Justice of the Peace in 1831, and in 1839 was appointed by the Illinois State Legislature as one of the commissioners to lay out a road from Belleville, via New Athens, to Brownsville.
On January 1st, 1836 several citizens of Randolph and Jackson counties, including James, met to organize a school, which became known as Shiloh School located in Randolph County. James was among the men who donated money to purchase 80 acres for the school house on 13 April 1839. On the 11th of November 1839 he became a Trustee of the school, and 12 days later the Trustees were charged with the incorporation of Shiloh College. Upon the college's incorporation on 22 January 1840, he was appointed a Trustee of the College, and served until August of 1842.
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1797 - 1866 (68 years)