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Bradbury was a shipbuilder and carpenter and worked at the Kittery Naval Shipyard as well as at a shipyard in Kennebunkport. He and Ella owned a country store next to their home in Kennebunkport which was built by his father Loren. Bradbury built the Wildes District School as well as several houses in Kennebunkport.

Bradbury and Ella are listed in the 1900 census along with their children Violet, Eugene, Mary, Fred, Hartley, Clyde and Gertrude. Bradbury was a carpenter. Ella listed her mother as being born in Canada. (1900 census for Kennebunkport, York Co.- supervisor's district 109, enumeration district 238, sheet no. 15)

At the time of the 1910 census the family was still living on the Wildes District Rd. and they were running a general store out of their house. Eugene, Mary, Fred, Hartley, Richard, Gertrude, Clifford and Leslie were all living at home. (1910 census for Kennebunkport- supervisor's district 1, enumeration district 245, sheet no. 13A)

By the 1920 census only Gertrude and Leslie were living at home and the family was still running the store with Bradbury being the "proprietor" and Gertrude listed as being a clerk in the grocery store. Ella listed her mother as being French Canadian. Their daugher Mary and her husband Stephen Perry were living next door with their children.

Bradbury and Ella were listed in the 1930 census still running the store and living next door to Ernest and Gertrude Nunan and Stephen and Mary Perry.

In his will 16 Mar. 1922 Bradbury left his whole estate to his wife Ella. He mentions his children Eugene A. of 6 Montvale Rd., Wellsley, MA; Frederick H. of 1365 E. 35th St., Brooklyn, NY; Hartley J. of 24 Adamson St., Allston, MA;
Richard C. of Braintree, MA; Bradbury Jr. of 20 Goodnough St., Brighton, MA; Leslie A. of 61 Whitmore St., Hartford,CT; Violet Perry of 30 Ross St., Medford, MA; and Mary Perry and Gertrude Nunan of Kennebunkport. His real estate was worth $1250.00. (York Co. Probate- #65472)