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Braden, John – Bradish, Luther

Braden, John

clergyman, college president, was born Aug. 18, 1826, in New York city. He has attained prominence as a successful clergyman of the methodist episcopal church; and is the president of the Central Tennessee college of Nashville. was

Bradford, Augustus W

governor, was born about 1805, in Maryland.

In 1862 he was elected governor of that state, serving as such until 1866. He died March 1, 1881.

Bradford, Edward G

lawyer, jurist, was born in Maryland. He adopted the profession of the law; settled at Wilmington, Del.; and in 1871 was appointed United States judge for the district of Delaware.

Bradford, Ellen Knight

author, poet, was born in Ypsilanti, Mich.

Among the best known of her poems are the hymn Over the Line; Wearing of the Blue; Elberon; Centennial; and Songs of Real Children.

Bradford, James Henry

clergyman, was born Aug. 24, 1836, in Grafton, Vt. He has been chaplain of Garfield post, G. A. R., of Washington, D. C., from its inception; and has served in the same capacity for one year in the department of the Potomac. He is director and treasurer of the temporary home for soldiers and sailors; secretary of the Boys' and Girls' Home and Employment association. and of the Manassas School for Colored Youth.

Bradford, John

journalist, state legislator, author, was born in 1749, in Fauquier county, Va. In 1789 he established the Kentucky Gazette; was elected several times to the Kentucky state legislature; and was the author of a work entitled Notes on Kentucky. He died in 1830 in Lexington, Ky.

Bradford, Joseph M

naval officer, was born Nov. 4, 1824, in Sumner county, Tenn. He was fleet captain of the South Atlantic blockading squadron from November, 1863, till June, 1865, during which period he saw severe service and performed his difficult duties to the satisfaction of his superior officers. He died April 14, 1872, in Norfolk, Va.

Bradford, Robert

soldier, was born in 1750 in Plymouth, Mass. He served through the revolutionary war, from Bunker Hill to Yorktown, and was present at many important engagements.

He held the rank of major and was presented by Lafayette with a sword for gallantry. He died in 1823 in Belpre, Ohio.

Bradford, Taul

soldier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1835, in Mardisville, Ala. He practiced law from the age of twenty, excepting during the civil war, when he served in the confederate army. In 1871 he was elected to the Alabama legislature, and served two sessions; and in 1874 was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-fourth congress.

Bradford, William

soldier, printer, journalist, author, was born in 1719, in New York. In line he went to England, and the next year he returned to Philadelphia with printing material and a library, and on Dec. 2, 1742, issued the first number of the Pennsylvania Journal.

When the revolutionary war began he joined the Pennsylvania militia. As a major, and afterward a colonel, he fought in the battles of Trenton and Princeton.

He died Sept. 25, 1791, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Bradford, William

painter, was born in 1827, in New Bedford, Mass. He began by painting ships at Lynn and in sketches of coasts not before visited by artists. He died April 25, 1892, in New Bedford, Mass.

Bradish, Luther

statesman, was born Sept. 15, 1783, in Cummington, Mass.

He was a member of the New York assembly in 1827-30, and in 1835-8. He was lieutenant-governor in 1829-43; and assistant United States treasurer at New York during Fillmore's administration.

He died Aug. 30, 1863, in Newport, R. I.