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Bradford, Amory Howe

clergyman, author, was born in 1846, in Massachusetts. He is a congregational clergyman of Montclair, N. J., and the author of The Pilgrim in Old England; Old Wine; New Bottles; Spirit and Life, Thought for To-Day; and Heredity and Christian Problems.

BRADFORD, ANDREW SOWLES, printer, journalist, was born in 1686, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was the only printer in Pennsylvania from 1712 to 1723. On Dec. 22, 1719, he began the publication of the first newspaper printed in the middle colonies, the American Weekly Mercury. Benjamin Franklin, upon arriving in Philadelphia in 1723, found employment as a compositor in his printing office. Andrew Bradford was postmaster of Philadelphia in 1732. He kept a bookstore at the sign of the Bible in Second street in 1735, and in 1738 removed to South Front street. In 1741 he started a periodical called the American Magazine.

He died Nov. 23, 1742.