Ernest H. Bradner (1846-1922) was born in Plymouth, Michigan, and died in Sacramento, California. He graduated from the Michigan State Agricultural College in 1869 and worked as a school teacher. He married Sarah E. Bradner (b. Butrick) in Dowagiac, Michigan, in 1872. She passed away later that year. He later married Clara Bradner (b. Harwood) in Sacramento in 1879. The Bradners were students of Minnie B. Hall DeSoto, John P. Filbert and Julia Field-King. Although they expressed an interest in studying with Mary Baker Eddy, there is no record of them doing so. They joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 30, 1893, and they were both listed in the directory of The Christian Science Journal as Christian Science practitioners in California until their deaths.

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