From the May, 1914 issue of Erie Railroad Magazine
Lee A. Bradshaw, Chief Engineer of the "Brownell," has had an interesting and practical engineering training, which started when he was sixteen years old. In 1900 he began work in shops at Port Huron, Michigan, leaving there in the Spring of 1902 to go firing on the steamer "Rappahannock," 1904-05. He worked as oiler on steamer "Wyoming," both boats being in the service of the Port Huron & Duluth Package Freight Line. Entered the service of the Great Lakes Engineering Works and came out on the new steamer "Frank C. Ball" (585 ft. long), which was built by that Company, and began sailing in 1906 in the G.A. Tomlinson Line. Chief Engineer Bradshaw served as Assistant Engineer on the steamer "William Livingston" (605 ft long) of the same line.
In the Spring of 1909 he came to the Erie Lake Line as Assistant Engineer on the steamer "Owego"; in 1910 was appointed Chief Engineer, and has continued in this important position on the "Owego," and now on the "Brownell," since the Spring of 1913.