Bradshaw, Samuel C
physician, congressman, was born June 10, 1809, in Plumstead, Pa. He was a representative from his native state to the thirty-fourth congress.
BRADSTREET, ALBION GILBERT, civil engineer, lawyer, was born Jan. 30, 1852, in North Bridgton. In 1879 he was elected by Bridgton a representative in the Maine legislature, and re-elected in 1880. In 1881 he was appointed acting general manager and chief engineer of the Tehuantepec Inter-Ocean Railroad company, a large and important organization which is engaged in building a railroad in Mexico across the isthmus of Tehuantepec. was BRADSTREET, MRS. ANNE DUDLEY, author, was born about 1612 in England.
She was the first American woman of letters, and called by her contemporaries The Tenth Muse. Her prose work includes a brief autobiographic sketch, Religious Experiences; Meditations Divine and Moral, a series of shrewd, strong aphorisms. In her lifetime she known only as a poet, and her verse, the bulk of which is considerable, comprises elegies, epitaphs. She was the author of The Four Monarchies, a rhymed chronicle of ancient history; The Four Elements; The Four Humors of Man; The Four Ages of Man; The Four Seasons of the Year; Dialogue between Old England and New; and Contemplations. She followed artificial models, and her lines reflect the grotesque conceits of the time, but here and there are gleams of real poetic vigor, while in the poem Contemplations, the least labored of them all, she exhibits true poetic inspiration. She died Sept. 16, 1672.