From Titusville History Biography:
Brady's Were Early Grocery men
By Guinton Sherrer
"The first permanent settlers to North Brevard came for a variety of reasons with varied hopes and ambitions. Some brought happy memories with them. Others left blighted paths behind and planned to begin life anew in Titusville.
A widow with seven children came to homestead in La Grange in 1873. She had once known wealth and high position.
Albine LeRoy Brady's father, Dr. Henry LeRoy was physician to the King of Belgium. But Albine had married an Irishman and moved to Canada, leaving behind her luxuries. She and her husband later settled in Summerfield, Ala.
As a widow with a big family, she pulled up stakes and moved to Florida with great homes for the future. The way was often rough But the Brady name was to be known throughout the area.
Today Albine's great-grandson, Dr. Louis P. Brady of Orlando is an orthopedic surgeon and R.C. Brady of Titusville is well-known citrus grower and a member of Titusville-Sanford canal district."
BRADY'S STORE IS LINKED WITH THE EARLIEST HISTORY
Opened in Titusville in 1886; Located first at LaGrange. The Brady grocery store is the oldest business house in Titusville, having been founded there in 1886 by E.L. Brady, a brother of L.A. Brady, present owner of the establishment.
The original location of the store in Titusville was at the southeast corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue on the present site of the Dixie Pharmacy. The property is still owned by the E.L. Brady estate. The store was conducted in this location for nine years, and was destroyed by the fire in the catastrophe which swept the business section of this town in 1895.
Prior to the establishment of the business here, E.L. Brady had conducted a small grocery store at La Grange on the corner now known as Ives' corner, his home being the present residence of B.W. Ives.
Following the fire in Titusville, a two story brick building was erected at the corner of Washington Avenue and Julia Street and is still occupied by the firm of E.L. Brady and Brothers; the business now owned by L. A. Brady since 1918. E. L. Brady died at Miami in October, 1929
Before Railroad: The first Brady store was erected here prior to the laying of the first railroad into Titusville, although work was then being done on the right-of-way.
"One fact that will amuse present citizens is the number of cattle that used to roam our streets, " said L.A. Brady this week, in recalling incidents of those days. "I have often seen as many as a hundred head of cattle grazing on our city streets and vacant lots, and many times have crossed the street in front of our store to escort ladies across the street on account of the cattle there." "We fought for ten years before we could enforce the ordinance preventing cattle from roaming at large in town. It would certainly seem odd today to see that number of cattle on our city street and lots."
STAR ADVOCATE, TITUSVILLE, FLA, AUGUST 10, 1923
E.L. BRADY--"Makers of Miami" Contains Biographical Sketch of Well-known
Titusville Orange Grower (From Miami News-Metropolis)
E.L. Brady, one of Miami's first city councilmen, and chairman of the committee which brought the bay front park, was born in Selma, Ala., and at 16 or 17 years of age decided he wanted to leave home so he moved to Florida in 1877. He spent some years clerking in John Cox & Son's grocery and in 1887 opened a grocery of his own in Titusville when the first railroad, the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West road, reached there in April 1896, a few months prior to Miami's incorporation, Mr. Brady opened a grocery on the corner of Miami Avenue and S.E. Second St. and had the largest store at that time. He was burned out on that corner at Christmas time and built on the corner of Flagler St. and Miami Ave. which is still popularly known as Brady's corner although a cigar stand has replaced the old grocery. For 20 years the E.L. Brady Co. was in business there and in 1918 the stock was sold out and the company dissolved. Since then Mr. Brady has put all his time on his personal interest and his citrus grove at Titusville, which he says, takes about two-thirds of his time. Mr. Brady was on the first city council and was again elected to the council 1916-1921 during which time he succeeded Henry G. Ralston as chairman of the committee that negotiated with the F.E.C. railroad for the purchase of Bay front park. Others on the committee were R.B. McLendon and Henry Chase. The trustees of the railroad came to Miami and arranged to sell to the city the bay front from Flagler St. north to Sixth St. for $650,000 but as the bond issue had been purchased of the entire water front the New York bond attorneys decided the purchase of only a part would be illegal. Further negotiations finally resulted in buying the two blocks in front of Royal Palm Park making the total price for eight blocks $1,000,000. The department at that time, Mr. Brady says, had funds only for maintenance of parks and except for the buying of Wynnwood park in Buena Vista no special additions or improvements were made.
Early History
One of Albine's sons was Adhemar Brady, who succeeded Miss Naricissa Feaster as teacher at the "first public free school in Brevard County" in La Grange. Adhemar Brady later filled the office of County School Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Under his guidance there were 21 public schools in existence by 1882 on a total teachers salary of $2500. In the early days county and school board script was down to 20 to 30 cents on a dollar.
School teachers salaries were as low as $12 per month. Some of the early teachers were called "the salt of the earth."
Two other of Albine's sons - Louis and Edward Brady operated a grocery store at Julia and Washington (where Bryan, Conway and Winstead Realty is now).
Louis' son, R. C. Brady, Sr. known by all his friends as Converse or "Connie, " says the grocery was opened about 1880 and was sold in 1945 after serving Titusville for about 65 years.
In the early days groceries were delivered by horse and wagon but when Converse Brady was a lad helping his dad and uncle in the store, he drove a model T truck.
" We delivered groceries at no extra cost and often we were still delivering at 1 A.M. on Sunday." he remembered.
"Mr. Duren ran the meat market and the Brady's had the grocery store. We carried the famous can good selection known as Royal Scarlet distributed by the R.C. Williams Co. out of New York. We were the exclusive handler of their products in Titusville, " Connie Brady said.
He began as a delivery boy and wound up as the store's bookkeeper. Today he is in the citrus business and is the only surviving child of Louis and Daisy Brady. The other two children Lawrence, II and L.P. Brady are buried in La Grange cemetery as are many of the Brady family members.
Article taken from the City Directory of Miami, Florida dated 1904
Springing up as if by magic, and appropriately called from the beginning the "Magic City," Miami furnishes perhaps the only instance on record in which a full-fledged city came into existence at one bound without first having been a town. A city that was never a town is a unique product of American hustle. On July 28, 1896, or three months and thirteen days after the first train entered Miami, the place was incorporated as a city under the laws of Florida. Three hundred registered voters are required to entitle any incorporated community to be called a city, less than that number constitutes a town. At the meeting held for the purpose of incorporation 344 votes laws of cast. John B. Reilly was elected Miami's first mayor; John M. Graham, clerk; Y. F. Gray, marshal; William Al. Brown, Daniel Cosgrove, Hon F. S. Morse, Joseph A. McDonald, Dr. Walter S. Graham, Edward L. Brady and Frank T. Budge were chosen aldermen. Thus at one stride did a municipality spring from the wilderness—for six months earlier the population of not have numbered more than twenty-five souls.
Brady's Were Early Grocery men
By Guinton Sherrer
"The first permanent settlers to North Brevard came for a variety of reasons with varied hopes and ambitions. Some brought happy memories with them. Others left blighted paths behind and planned to begin life anew in Titusville.
A widow with seven children came to homestead in La Grange in 1873. She had once known wealth and high position.
Albine LeRoy Brady's father, Dr. Henry LeRoy was physician to the King of Belgium. But Albine had married an Irishman and moved to Canada, leaving behind her luxuries. She and her husband later settled in Summerfield, Ala.
As a widow with a big family, she pulled up stakes and moved to Florida with great homes for the future. The way was often rough But the Brady name was to be known throughout the area.
Today Albine's great-grandson, Dr. Louis P. Brady of Orlando is an orthopedic surgeon and R.C. Brady of Titusville is well-known citrus grower and a member of Titusville-Sanford canal district."
BRADY'S STORE IS LINKED WITH THE EARLIEST HISTORY
Opened in Titusville in 1886; Located first at LaGrange. The Brady grocery store is the oldest business house in Titusville, having been founded there in 1886 by E.L. Brady, a brother of L.A. Brady, present owner of the establishment.
The original location of the store in Titusville was at the southeast corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue on the present site of the Dixie Pharmacy. The property is still owned by the E.L. Brady estate. The store was conducted in this location for nine years, and was destroyed by the fire in the catastrophe which swept the business section of this town in 1895.
Prior to the establishment of the business here, E.L. Brady had conducted a small grocery store at La Grange on the corner now known as Ives' corner, his home being the present residence of B.W. Ives.
Following the fire in Titusville, a two story brick building was erected at the corner of Washington Avenue and Julia Street and is still occupied by the firm of E.L. Brady and Brothers; the business now owned by L. A. Brady since 1918. E. L. Brady died at Miami in October, 1929
Before Railroad: The first Brady store was erected here prior to the laying of the first railroad into Titusville, although work was then being done on the right-of-way.
"One fact that will amuse present citizens is the number of cattle that used to roam our streets, " said L.A. Brady this week, in recalling incidents of those days. "I have often seen as many as a hundred head of cattle grazing on our city streets and vacant lots, and many times have crossed the street in front of our store to escort ladies across the street on account of the cattle there." "We fought for ten years before we could enforce the ordinance preventing cattle from roaming at large in town. It would certainly seem odd today to see that number of cattle on our city street and lots."
STAR ADVOCATE, TITUSVILLE, FLA, AUGUST 10, 1923
E.L. BRADY--"Makers of Miami" Contains Biographical Sketch of Well-known
Titusville Orange Grower (From Miami News-Metropolis)
E.L. Brady, one of Miami's first city councilmen, and chairman of the committee which brought the bay front park, was born in Selma, Ala., and at 16 or 17 years of age decided he wanted to leave home so he moved to Florida in 1877. He spent some years clerking in John Cox & Son's grocery and in 1887 opened a grocery of his own in Titusville when the first railroad, the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West road, reached there in April 1896, a few months prior to Miami's incorporation, Mr. Brady opened a grocery on the corner of Miami Avenue and S.E. Second St. and had the largest store at that time. He was burned out on that corner at Christmas time and built on the corner of Flagler St. and Miami Ave. which is still popularly known as Brady's corner although a cigar stand has replaced the old grocery. For 20 years the E.L. Brady Co. was in business there and in 1918 the stock was sold out and the company dissolved. Since then Mr. Brady has put all his time on his personal interest and his citrus grove at Titusville, which he says, takes about two-thirds of his time. Mr. Brady was on the first city council and was again elected to the council 1916-1921 during which time he succeeded Henry G. Ralston as chairman of the committee that negotiated with the F.E.C. railroad for the purchase of Bay front park. Others on the committee were R.B. McLendon and Henry Chase. The trustees of the railroad came to Miami and arranged to sell to the city the bay front from Flagler St. north to Sixth St. for $650,000 but as the bond issue had been purchased of the entire water front the New York bond attorneys decided the purchase of only a part would be illegal. Further negotiations finally resulted in buying the two blocks in front of Royal Palm Park making the total price for eight blocks $1,000,000. The department at that time, Mr. Brady says, had funds only for maintenance of parks and except for the buying of Wynnwood park in Buena Vista no special additions or improvements were made.
Early History
One of Albine's sons was Adhemar Brady, who succeeded Miss Naricissa Feaster as teacher at the "first public free school in Brevard County" in La Grange. Adhemar Brady later filled the office of County School Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Under his guidance there were 21 public schools in existence by 1882 on a total teachers salary of $2500. In the early days county and school board script was down to 20 to 30 cents on a dollar.
School teachers salaries were as low as $12 per month. Some of the early teachers were called "the salt of the earth."
Two other of Albine's sons - Louis and Edward Brady operated a grocery store at Julia and Washington (where Bryan, Conway and Winstead Realty is now).
Louis' son, R. C. Brady, Sr. known by all his friends as Converse or "Connie, " says the grocery was opened about 1880 and was sold in 1945 after serving Titusville for about 65 years.
In the early days groceries were delivered by horse and wagon but when Converse Brady was a lad helping his dad and uncle in the store, he drove a model T truck.
" We delivered groceries at no extra cost and often we were still delivering at 1 A.M. on Sunday." he remembered.
"Mr. Duren ran the meat market and the Brady's had the grocery store. We carried the famous can good selection known as Royal Scarlet distributed by the R.C. Williams Co. out of New York. We were the exclusive handler of their products in Titusville, " Connie Brady said.
He began as a delivery boy and wound up as the store's bookkeeper. Today he is in the citrus business and is the only surviving child of Louis and Daisy Brady. The other two children Lawrence, II and L.P. Brady are buried in La Grange cemetery as are many of the Brady family members.
Article taken from the City Directory of Miami, Florida dated 1904
Springing up as if by magic, and appropriately called from the beginning the "Magic City," Miami furnishes perhaps the only instance on record in which a full-fledged city came into existence at one bound without first having been a town. A city that was never a town is a unique product of American hustle. On July 28, 1896, or three months and thirteen days after the first train entered Miami, the place was incorporated as a city under the laws of Florida. Three hundred registered voters are required to entitle any incorporated community to be called a city, less than that number constitutes a town. At the meeting held for the purpose of incorporation 344 votes laws of cast. John B. Reilly was elected Miami's first mayor; John M. Graham, clerk; Y. F. Gray, marshal; William Al. Brown, Daniel Cosgrove, Hon F. S. Morse, Joseph A. McDonald, Dr. Walter S. Graham, Edward L. Brady and Frank T. Budge were chosen aldermen. Thus at one stride did a municipality spring from the wilderness—for six months earlier the population of not have numbered more than twenty-five souls.
From Titusville History Biography:
Brady's Were Early Grocery men
By Guinton Sherrer
"The first permanent settlers to North Brevard came for a variety of reasons with varied hopes and ambitions. Some brought happy memories with them. Others left blighted paths behind and planned to begin life anew in Titusville.
A widow with seven children came to homestead in La Grange in 1873. She had once known wealth and high position.
Albine LeRoy Brady's father, Dr. Henry LeRoy was physician to the King of Belgium. But Albine had married an Irishman and moved to Canada, leaving behind her luxuries. She and her husband later settled in Summerfield, Ala.
As a widow with a big family, she pulled up stakes and moved to Florida with great homes for the future. The way was often rough But the Brady name was to be known throughout the area.
Today Albine's great-grandson, Dr. Louis P. Brady of Orlando is an orthopedic surgeon and R.C. Brady of Titusville is well-known citrus grower and a member of Titusville-Sanford canal district."
BRADY'S STORE IS LINKED WITH THE EARLIEST HISTORY
Opened in Titusville in 1886; Located first at LaGrange. The Brady grocery store is the oldest business house in Titusville, having been founded there in 1886 by E.L. Brady, a brother of L.A. Brady, present owner of the establishment.
The original location of the store in Titusville was at the southeast corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue on the present site of the Dixie Pharmacy. The property is still owned by the E.L. Brady estate. The store was conducted in this location for nine years, and was destroyed by the fire in the catastrophe which swept the business section of this town in 1895.
Prior to the establishment of the business here, E.L. Brady had conducted a small grocery store at La Grange on the corner now known as Ives' corner, his home being the present residence of B.W. Ives.
Following the fire in Titusville, a two story brick building was erected at the corner of Washington Avenue and Julia Street and is still occupied by the firm of E.L. Brady and Brothers; the business now owned by L. A. Brady since 1918. E. L. Brady died at Miami in October, 1929
Before Railroad: The first Brady store was erected here prior to the laying of the first railroad into Titusville, although work was then being done on the right-of-way.
"One fact that will amuse present citizens is the number of cattle that used to roam our streets, " said L.A. Brady this week, in recalling incidents of those days. "I have often seen as many as a hundred head of cattle grazing on our city streets and vacant lots, and many times have crossed the street in front of our store to escort ladies across the street on account of the cattle there." "We fought for ten years before we could enforce the ordinance preventing cattle from roaming at large in town. It would certainly seem odd today to see that number of cattle on our city street and lots."
STAR ADVOCATE, TITUSVILLE, FLA, AUGUST 10, 1923
E.L. BRADY--"Makers of Miami" Contains Biographical Sketch of Well-known
Titusville Orange Grower (From Miami News-Metropolis)
E.L. Brady, one of Miami's first city councilmen, and chairman of the committee which brought the bay front park, was born in Selma, Ala., and at 16 or 17 years of age decided he wanted to leave home so he moved to Florida in 1877. He spent some years clerking in John Cox & Son's grocery and in 1887 opened a grocery of his own in Titusville when the first railroad, the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West road, reached there in April 1896, a few months prior to Miami's incorporation, Mr. Brady opened a grocery on the corner of Miami Avenue and S.E. Second St. and had the largest store at that time. He was burned out on that corner at Christmas time and built on the corner of Flagler St. and Miami Ave. which is still popularly known as Brady's corner although a cigar stand has replaced the old grocery. For 20 years the E.L. Brady Co. was in business there and in 1918 the stock was sold out and the company dissolved. Since then Mr. Brady has put all his time on his personal interest and his citrus grove at Titusville, which he says, takes about two-thirds of his time. Mr. Brady was on the first city council and was again elected to the council 1916-1921 during which time he succeeded Henry G. Ralston as chairman of the committee that negotiated with the F.E.C. railroad for the purchase of Bay front park. Others on the committee were R.B. McLendon and Henry Chase. The trustees of the railroad came to Miami and arranged to sell to the city the bay front from Flagler St. north to Sixth St. for $650,000 but as the bond issue had been purchased of the entire water front the New York bond attorneys decided the purchase of only a part would be illegal. Further negotiations finally resulted in buying the two blocks in front of Royal Palm Park making the total price for eight blocks $1,000,000. The department at that time, Mr. Brady says, had funds only for maintenance of parks and except for the buying of Wynnwood park in Buena Vista no special additions or improvements were made.
Early History
One of Albine's sons was Adhemar Brady, who succeeded Miss Naricissa Feaster as teacher at the "first public free school in Brevard County" in La Grange. Adhemar Brady later filled the office of County School Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Under his guidance there were 21 public schools in existence by 1882 on a total teachers salary of $2500. In the early days county and school board script was down to 20 to 30 cents on a dollar.
School teachers salaries were as low as $12 per month. Some of the early teachers were called "the salt of the earth."
Two other of Albine's sons - Louis and Edward Brady operated a grocery store at Julia and Washington (where Bryan, Conway and Winstead Realty is now).
Louis' son, R. C. Brady, Sr. known by all his friends as Converse or "Connie, " says the grocery was opened about 1880 and was sold in 1945 after serving Titusville for about 65 years.
In the early days groceries were delivered by horse and wagon but when Converse Brady was a lad helping his dad and uncle in the store, he drove a model T truck.
" We delivered groceries at no extra cost and often we were still delivering at 1 A.M. on Sunday." he remembered.
"Mr. Duren ran the meat market and the Brady's had the grocery store. We carried the famous can good selection known as Royal Scarlet distributed by the R.C. Williams Co. out of New York. We were the exclusive handler of their products in Titusville, " Connie Brady said.
He began as a delivery boy and wound up as the store's bookkeeper. Today he is in the citrus business and is the only surviving child of Louis and Daisy Brady. The other two children Lawrence, II and L.P. Brady are buried in La Grange cemetery as are many of the Brady family members.
Article taken from the City Directory of Miami, Florida dated 1904
Springing up as if by magic, and appropriately called from the beginning the "Magic City," Miami furnishes perhaps the only instance on record in which a full-fledged city came into existence at one bound without first having been a town. A city that was never a town is a unique product of American hustle. On July 28, 1896, or three months and thirteen days after the first train entered Miami, the place was incorporated as a city under the laws of Florida. Three hundred registered voters are required to entitle any incorporated community to be called a city, less than that number constitutes a town. At the meeting held for the purpose of incorporation 344 votes laws of cast. John B. Reilly was elected Miami's first mayor; John M. Graham, clerk; Y. F. Gray, marshal; William Al. Brown, Daniel Cosgrove, Hon F. S. Morse, Joseph A. McDonald, Dr. Walter S. Graham, Edward L. Brady and Frank T. Budge were chosen aldermen. Thus at one stride did a municipality spring from the wilderness—for six months earlier the population of not have numbered more than twenty-five souls.
Brady's Were Early Grocery men
By Guinton Sherrer
"The first permanent settlers to North Brevard came for a variety of reasons with varied hopes and ambitions. Some brought happy memories with them. Others left blighted paths behind and planned to begin life anew in Titusville.
A widow with seven children came to homestead in La Grange in 1873. She had once known wealth and high position.
Albine LeRoy Brady's father, Dr. Henry LeRoy was physician to the King of Belgium. But Albine had married an Irishman and moved to Canada, leaving behind her luxuries. She and her husband later settled in Summerfield, Ala.
As a widow with a big family, she pulled up stakes and moved to Florida with great homes for the future. The way was often rough But the Brady name was to be known throughout the area.
Today Albine's great-grandson, Dr. Louis P. Brady of Orlando is an orthopedic surgeon and R.C. Brady of Titusville is well-known citrus grower and a member of Titusville-Sanford canal district."
BRADY'S STORE IS LINKED WITH THE EARLIEST HISTORY
Opened in Titusville in 1886; Located first at LaGrange. The Brady grocery store is the oldest business house in Titusville, having been founded there in 1886 by E.L. Brady, a brother of L.A. Brady, present owner of the establishment.
The original location of the store in Titusville was at the southeast corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue on the present site of the Dixie Pharmacy. The property is still owned by the E.L. Brady estate. The store was conducted in this location for nine years, and was destroyed by the fire in the catastrophe which swept the business section of this town in 1895.
Prior to the establishment of the business here, E.L. Brady had conducted a small grocery store at La Grange on the corner now known as Ives' corner, his home being the present residence of B.W. Ives.
Following the fire in Titusville, a two story brick building was erected at the corner of Washington Avenue and Julia Street and is still occupied by the firm of E.L. Brady and Brothers; the business now owned by L. A. Brady since 1918. E. L. Brady died at Miami in October, 1929
Before Railroad: The first Brady store was erected here prior to the laying of the first railroad into Titusville, although work was then being done on the right-of-way.
"One fact that will amuse present citizens is the number of cattle that used to roam our streets, " said L.A. Brady this week, in recalling incidents of those days. "I have often seen as many as a hundred head of cattle grazing on our city streets and vacant lots, and many times have crossed the street in front of our store to escort ladies across the street on account of the cattle there." "We fought for ten years before we could enforce the ordinance preventing cattle from roaming at large in town. It would certainly seem odd today to see that number of cattle on our city street and lots."
STAR ADVOCATE, TITUSVILLE, FLA, AUGUST 10, 1923
E.L. BRADY--"Makers of Miami" Contains Biographical Sketch of Well-known
Titusville Orange Grower (From Miami News-Metropolis)
E.L. Brady, one of Miami's first city councilmen, and chairman of the committee which brought the bay front park, was born in Selma, Ala., and at 16 or 17 years of age decided he wanted to leave home so he moved to Florida in 1877. He spent some years clerking in John Cox & Son's grocery and in 1887 opened a grocery of his own in Titusville when the first railroad, the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West road, reached there in April 1896, a few months prior to Miami's incorporation, Mr. Brady opened a grocery on the corner of Miami Avenue and S.E. Second St. and had the largest store at that time. He was burned out on that corner at Christmas time and built on the corner of Flagler St. and Miami Ave. which is still popularly known as Brady's corner although a cigar stand has replaced the old grocery. For 20 years the E.L. Brady Co. was in business there and in 1918 the stock was sold out and the company dissolved. Since then Mr. Brady has put all his time on his personal interest and his citrus grove at Titusville, which he says, takes about two-thirds of his time. Mr. Brady was on the first city council and was again elected to the council 1916-1921 during which time he succeeded Henry G. Ralston as chairman of the committee that negotiated with the F.E.C. railroad for the purchase of Bay front park. Others on the committee were R.B. McLendon and Henry Chase. The trustees of the railroad came to Miami and arranged to sell to the city the bay front from Flagler St. north to Sixth St. for $650,000 but as the bond issue had been purchased of the entire water front the New York bond attorneys decided the purchase of only a part would be illegal. Further negotiations finally resulted in buying the two blocks in front of Royal Palm Park making the total price for eight blocks $1,000,000. The department at that time, Mr. Brady says, had funds only for maintenance of parks and except for the buying of Wynnwood park in Buena Vista no special additions or improvements were made.
Early History
One of Albine's sons was Adhemar Brady, who succeeded Miss Naricissa Feaster as teacher at the "first public free school in Brevard County" in La Grange. Adhemar Brady later filled the office of County School Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Under his guidance there were 21 public schools in existence by 1882 on a total teachers salary of $2500. In the early days county and school board script was down to 20 to 30 cents on a dollar.
School teachers salaries were as low as $12 per month. Some of the early teachers were called "the salt of the earth."
Two other of Albine's sons - Louis and Edward Brady operated a grocery store at Julia and Washington (where Bryan, Conway and Winstead Realty is now).
Louis' son, R. C. Brady, Sr. known by all his friends as Converse or "Connie, " says the grocery was opened about 1880 and was sold in 1945 after serving Titusville for about 65 years.
In the early days groceries were delivered by horse and wagon but when Converse Brady was a lad helping his dad and uncle in the store, he drove a model T truck.
" We delivered groceries at no extra cost and often we were still delivering at 1 A.M. on Sunday." he remembered.
"Mr. Duren ran the meat market and the Brady's had the grocery store. We carried the famous can good selection known as Royal Scarlet distributed by the R.C. Williams Co. out of New York. We were the exclusive handler of their products in Titusville, " Connie Brady said.
He began as a delivery boy and wound up as the store's bookkeeper. Today he is in the citrus business and is the only surviving child of Louis and Daisy Brady. The other two children Lawrence, II and L.P. Brady are buried in La Grange cemetery as are many of the Brady family members.
Article taken from the City Directory of Miami, Florida dated 1904
Springing up as if by magic, and appropriately called from the beginning the "Magic City," Miami furnishes perhaps the only instance on record in which a full-fledged city came into existence at one bound without first having been a town. A city that was never a town is a unique product of American hustle. On July 28, 1896, or three months and thirteen days after the first train entered Miami, the place was incorporated as a city under the laws of Florida. Three hundred registered voters are required to entitle any incorporated community to be called a city, less than that number constitutes a town. At the meeting held for the purpose of incorporation 344 votes laws of cast. John B. Reilly was elected Miami's first mayor; John M. Graham, clerk; Y. F. Gray, marshal; William Al. Brown, Daniel Cosgrove, Hon F. S. Morse, Joseph A. McDonald, Dr. Walter S. Graham, Edward L. Brady and Frank T. Budge were chosen aldermen. Thus at one stride did a municipality spring from the wilderness—for six months earlier the population of not have numbered more than twenty-five souls.
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