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Bradley, Luther Prentice

soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 8, 1822, in New Haven, Conn. He entered the volunteer army Oct. 15, 1861, as lieutenant-colonel fifty-first Illinois infantry. BRADLEY, MARY EMILY NEELY, author, poet, was born Nov. 29, 1834, in Easton, Md. For forty years she resided in New York city with her husband, and since his death, in 1893, has lived in Washington. She has been a frequent contributor to the best periodicals of the day, and has published many books well known in Sunday-school libraries for young people; and also a volume of poems entitled The Hidden Sweetness.

Her most notable prose works are: Douglass Farm; Story of a Summer; Brave Girls; and Grace's Visit.