U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Bready, George R. (1858-1918) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Men of West Virginia, Volume II Biographical Publishing Company George Richmond, Pres.: C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas. Chicago, Illinois, 1903 Pages 755-756 GEORGE R. BREADY, general manager of the Harper's Ferry Paper Company and Shenandoah Pulp Company, general manager of the Harper's Ferry Electric Light Company, and one of the most respected and esteemed citizens of the city, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, September 5, 1858. He is a son of George C. and Margaret E. (Hill) Bready, and a grandson of George A. Bready. George A. Bready was a son of a farmer and was himself engaged in farming all his life. He was born in Pennsylvania and removed to Maryland when the country was yet a wilderness, settling in Frederick County, where now stands the town of Adamstown, and there he died at the age of 89 years. He reared a family of 11 sons and the youngest was named Eleven. George C. Bready, son of George A. Bready, and father of our subject, was born in Maryland in 1830, where he resided all his life. For 40 years he was a freight conductor on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. In 1857, at the age of 23 years, he married Margaret E. Hill, daughter of Robert M. and Cynthia A. Hill, of Baltimore, Maryland. Mrs. Bready died when her son, George R., was but six weeks old. Mr. Bready married for his second wife Mary M. Putts, who died without issue in 1900. George R. Bready resided with his maternal grandparents in Philadelphia until they died, in 1874. Prior to that he had practically taken care of himself, selling papers and engaging in the childish struggle for existence which is to be seen in every great city. His grandparents kept him at school as much as possible, but after their decease he turned his back on old pursuits and entered into business on his own responsibility. He soon obtained employment in Baltimore with Hoover & McVeigh, grain commission merchants, and served as clerk at Locust Point and then entered the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad offices as clerk at the same point. He was then promoted to be the messenger in the office of the chief train dispatcher at the Camden station, Baltimore, and when the road took its express business out of the hands of the Adams Express Company in 1877, and established an office at Harper's Ferry, Mr. Bready was made clerk in the express department there. In 1878 he was promoted to be the clerk at this point in the transportation department and later was promoted to be cashier at the same station. In 1889 the two pulp mills, just started at Harper's Ferry, offered the position of bookkeeper to Mr. Bready, an offer he accepted; in 1893 he was made superintendent, in 1896, manager, and in 1897 general manager, being admitted to the firm in 1898. Under the present efficient management, the business has increased its output many fold and, while Mr. Bready generously gives his assistants great credit, is well known that his efficiency has had much to do with present prosperity. In 1881 he married Mary E. Furtney, who is a daughter of George W. Furtney, the family being of English descent. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bready, namely: Eugene, born in September 1882; Gordon, born in 1883; Lillian, born in 1884; and "Uppie" born in October, 1893. In politics Mr. Bready is a Republican, although formerly a Democrat, separating from the latter organization because of his convictions on the tariff question. He was a charter member of the Heptasophs, but belongs to no other order. He is interested in a number of business enterprises in Harper's Ferry, and is a substantial, representative man, respected in his business relations and beloved by all who are permitted to know him intimately. He is a man of genial, rugged nature, open, candid and cordial, an independent thinker and an energetic business man. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATH CERTIFICATE, Jefferson County WV, #3079 FULL-NAME: George R. Bready BIRTH-DATE: September 5, 1859 BIRTH-PLACE: Md. DEATH-DATE: July 3, 1918 AGE-AT-DEATH: 58y-10m-4d DEATH-PLACE: Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: Manager of Pulp Mill FATHER: Geo. R. Bready (born in Md.) MOTHER: Margharita Hill (born in Philadelphia, Pa.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Diabetis /lymphangitis on Leg INFORMANT: B. B. Ranson, M.D. (of Harpers Ferry, W.Va.) BURIAL: Harpers Ferry ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Jefferson County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/jefferson/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------