The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Center Township, pages 505-506
Bradley Bartholomew, M.D., is one of the oldest medical practitioners in Hendricks County. He established his practice first at Belleville in the southern part of the county in 1832, and in the spring of 1838 he removed to Crawfordsville, Montgomery Co., Ind., and from there to Danville in the fall of 1840. He was born in Charlotte, Vt., Oct. 26, 1804, a son of Levi and Rosanna (Castle) Bartholomew. When he was two years of age his parents removed to Coventry, N.Y., and in 1814 they came to Ohio and settled on a farm in Clermont County. At fourteen, his father gave him his time. He attended and taught school until he was twenty years old when he began to study medicine with Dr. A.V. Hopkins, of Bethe,l Ohio, he having studied the Latin language with Dr. Dameron while teaching at Point Pleasant, Ohio, in 1822. He defrayed the expenses of his medical education by teaching, having taught in Ohio and Kentucky. In 1828 he went to Ghent, Ky., where he taught and practiced medicine at Port William, near Ghent, until the fall of 1831 when he came to Greensburg, Ind. In the spring of 1832 he passed his examination before the Indiana State Medical Society at Connersville, receiving a license to practice in the State. He then went to Greenfield, Hancock County, and became associated with Dr. Lot Edwards where he remained until coming to Belleville, Hendricks County, in the fall of 1832. He attended lectures in the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati in the classes of 1856-'7 and graduated as M.D. in February, 1857, and also secured a diploma from the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati in 1858. His long practice in Danville has made his name familiar in nearly every household in this county. The prevailing diseases when he first began to practice in the county were intermittent, remittent and typhoid fevers. At that time he was obliged to undergo many hardships, taking many long and tedious rides through unbroken woods with only bridle paths, through all kinds of weather. He is a member of both State and County Medical Associations, and is one of the founders of the County Medical Society. June 15, 1856, he was married to Harriet T., daughter of James and Priscilla (Tucker) Ward, of Belleville, Ind. Her father was a native of Virginia and her mother of Kentucky, they coming to Indiana in 1812 and were the first settlers of Madison, Ind., then a hamlet of block houses inhabited by Indians. They have four children living--Orion A., an attorney at law, Charion, Iowa; Rev. William F., pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Corydon, Iowa; Laura, wife of Nathan J. Scearce, druggist of Danville; Emily, wife of Dr. C.M. Colvin, of Des Moines, Iowa. Mary E. died Oct. 1, 1844, aged four years, and Levi W. died Nov.2, 1871, aged twenty-nine years. Dr. Bartholomew and his wife have been members of the Methodist Episcoal church of Danville for many years. He is a member of Western Star Lodge, No.26, A.F. & A.M., and has passed the chair of Worshipful Master. Politically he is a Republican but was originally a Whig.