in 1889, his son Samuel took over as bank president until he passed in 1891. John S. Bradford, the grandson of James and son of Samuel, was then selected as bank president until 1925. Following the death of John Bradford, his wife, Myrtle T. Bradford, was selected to serve his term as president. The Greenville Advocate noted that “Mrs. Bradford is probably the only lady in the state who has been elevated to the presidency of a bank.” After her retirement, Nancy Rogers Bradford, widow to Samuel and mother to John, was selected by the board to serve as president where she served until her death. An interesting side notes: Both Myrtle T. and Nancy Rogers Bradford are the only two female presidents in the country to ever put their signatures on National Bank Note Currency. Upon the death of Nancy, in 1927, Walter Joy was elected president, thus ending the 60-year era of the Bradford family heading the bank. Subsequent bank presidents include Roger Riedemann, Frank R. Joy, Douglas Stroud, and Michael Ennen. Today, the bank has locations in Greenville, Highland, and Marine, Illinois. Bradford National Bank Geography Greenville is located near the center of Bond County at (38.8895, -89.4036). U.S. Route 40 and Interstate 70 pass to the south of downtown, both highways leading west to St. Louis and east to Vandalia. Greenville is also located on Illinois Route 127, which is a major north-south route connecting Southern Illinois to Springfield. The National Road passes through Greenville. East of Greenville it follows Illinois Route 140, and west it follows U.S. Route 40. Its route west of town was the source of a historic controversy. Original plans were to connect Greenville to St. Louis. However, the Illinois General Assembly preferred a route to Alton to favor an Illinois city directly on the Mississippi River. When federal money for the road ran out in 1840 at Vandalia, 19 miles east of Greenville, the State Legislature refused to fund it further. Residents of Greenville, Highland, Troy, and Collinsville paid to complete the road to East St. Louis. The "State Policy" of favoring Alton over St. Louis remained a major political issue in Illinois until the Civil War. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Greenville has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the 2020 census there were 7,083 people, 2,351 households, and 1,222 families residing in the