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PORTRAIT AND
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
AARON W. RADLEY,
D. V. S., one of the native residents of Bethlehem, is a graduate
and successful veterinary practitioner. His office is located at
No. 18 High Street, which place he owns, as well as his residence
and other property in the city. He stands high in his profession
and practices considerably in this and adjoining counties.
Dr. Radley was born
December 14, 1859, being a son of A. W. Radley, a native of
Plainfield, N. J. The latter was a real-estate agent, and was
located for some years at Butztown, where he also engaged in
merchandising. Later he came to Bethlehem, where he was engaged
in the real-estate business, and here his death occurred in 1871.
He was of English descent, while his wife's ancestors were born in
Germany. Mrs. Radley was in her girlhood Rebecca Gradwohl, her
birth having occurred in Butztown. Her father, John Gradwohl, was
a native of this county, and followed agricultural pursuits. Mrs.
A. W. Radley died in Bethlehem in 1889, and four of her eleven
children are also deceased.
Dr. A. W. Radley passed
his boyhood in Butztown with his uncle, Thomas Gradwohl, a retired
farmer, and managed to acquire a good common-school education, for
a time attending the schools of Freemansburg. In 1874 be went to
Easton to learn the drug business, and remained in the employ of
A. Odenwelder for a period of two and a half years. Thence going
to Philadelphia, be entered the College of Pharmacy, where he
completed the prescribed course of study, and graduated with the
degree of Graduate of Pharmacy. His uncle having died in 1879, he
returned to Butztown, where for a time he was in charge of his
uncle's affairs.
About 1884 Dr. Radley
began his studies as a veterinary surgeon, and entered the
American Veterinary College in New York State, from which noted
institution he graduated two years later with the degree of Doctor
of Veterinary Surgery. Returning to Butztown, he there began his
practice, continuing to make that his field of work until the fall
of 1888, at which time he removed to Bethlehem, locating at the
corner of Broad and High Streets. He has a regular hospital in
Bethlehem, and is becoming very well-to-do through his large and
lucrative practice. He owns the old homestead at Butztown, and
also a farm of one hundred acres adjoining that town, which he
rents. Dr. Radley has a number of good horses, and is a great
lover of this noble animal. In accordance with modern ideas, he
endeavors to extend his field of observation and learning
continually, and to that end belongs to the Pennsylvania Veterinary
Association. The home of the Doctor is at No. 349 Broad Street,
where he has a good residence. He is a member of the Salem
Lutheran Church, and in politics votes for the nominees of the
Democratic party.
Kindly submitted by
Bill Schmitz page 136