[Newspaper]
Publication: The Cincinnati Post
Cincinnati, OH, United States
vol. 57, no. 109, p. 1, col. 6
SHINKLE DIES
AT HIS HOME
IN COVINGTON
Millionaire President of
Suspension Bridge Co.
Was Prominent in
Cincinnati.
ONCE CLERK ON BOAT
Had Been South Seeking
Health — Was Liberal With
Gifts
Bradford Shinkle, builder and main owner of the Suspension Bridge and one of the principal property owners of Covington, died Friday at his home, on East Second-st., Covington, from Bright’s disease. Three weeks ago he returned from Florida, where he had gone in a futile search for health.
Shinkle was born 63 years ago at Higginsport, O. The family moved to Covington in 1846. Bradford Shinkle attended the public schools of Covington, and was graduated from the Miami University at Oxford, O. His father started a line of steamboats on the Ohio River, and, after graduation, Bradford Shinkle became a clerk on one of these boats. One day there was an explosion on the boat, many were killed. Young Shinkle was blown into the water and swam ashore uninjured.
HIS MARRIAGE
In 1868 Shinkle married Miss Anna Hemingray. They had two children — A. C. Shinkle, now living in Cincinnati, and Miss Camilla, wife of Dr. Frank B. Cross.
In the year of his marriage Shinkle went into the sugar business, his partners being Martin Baer and T. W. Howell. It became one of the largest concerns of the kind, in Cincinnati, and was afterward succeeded by the present grocery firm of Shinkle, Wilson & Kries. For many, years Shinkle was President of the Wholesale Grocers' Association.
He also, became President of the Suspension Bridge Co., and made famous a young engineer, William Hildebrand, whom be engaged to work on the biggest engineering job in the history of Cincinnati.