Bradford, Amory Howe – Bradlee, Caleb Davis
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.
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, Gamaliel
soldier, jurist, was born Sept. 2, 1731, in Duxbury, Mass. He was a descendant of Governor William Bradford and son of Judge Gamaliel Bradford. He served in the French war as captain and rose to the rank of major. During the revolutionary war he commanded the fourteenth Massachusetts regiment of continentals. After the war he was a member of the legislature and a judge. He died Jan. 9, 1807, in Duxbury, Mass.
GAMALIEL, political BRADFORD, writer, was born Jan. 15, 1831, in Boston, Mass. He graduated from Harvard in 1849. He is the principal advocate for the admission of cabinet officers to a seat and voice in congress, without the right of voting.
Bradford, Ira B
lawyer, banker, legislator, was born June 24, 1851, in Fulton, Wis. He graduated from the New Hampshire conference seminary, and attained eminence as an able lawyer of Augusta, Wis., of which city he has been mayor. In 1880 he was a member of the Wisconsin assembly; and the following year was made speaker of that body. He can trace his lineage back to the celebrated Gov. Bradford of the Massachusetts colony; and the republicans of Chippewa Valley have abiding faith in the future of Mr. Bradford, and insist that he will yet be made governor of Wisconsin.
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, John J
lawyer, legislator, was born March 12, 1838, in Conecuh county, Ala. He received his education in Green county, Miss.; and graduated 'from the Salem high school. He was educated a merchant; was clerk of court in Hancock county for eight years; and in 1871 was elected to the Mississippi state legislature.
During the war he served as confederate capa tain in Johnson's army. In 1868 he was admitted to the bar, and practiced his profession for a quarter of a century. For ten years he was statistical agent of his county for the department of agriculture of Washington, D. C. He is now principally engaged in farming, stock-raising, and fruit-growing at Augusta, Miss.
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, Thomas
soldier, printer, journalist, was born May 4, 1745, in Philadelphia, Pa. After leaving the college of Philadelphia he entered his father's printing office, and became his partner and associate editor of the Pennsylvania Journal, which he transformed into the True American in 1801. In 1775 he became captain of a military company in Philadelphia, and later was commissarygeneral of the Pennsylvania division of the continental army. After the establishment of the federal government he became printer to congress. He was one of the founders of the Philosophical society. He died May 7, 1.833, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Bradford, Thomas Lindsley
physician, author, was born June 6, 1847, in Francestown, N. H. He is a physician of Philadelphia, and the author of A Homeopathic Biography of the United States from the years 1825 to 1891; and is at present engaged on a Life of Hahnemann.
Bradford, William
governor, author, was born in March, 1588, in England. He was governor of the Plymouth colony, 1621-57. He left in manuscript a History of Plymouth Plantation, the leisurely composition of twenty years, which was drawn from by Morton, Prince, and Hutchinson as a basis for their respective histories, and after being lost for nearly a century was found in the library of the bishop of London in 1855, and published soon after. He was the earliest American historian, and his work exhibits judicial impartiality, broad conceptions, and a direct, vigorous style.
He died May 9, 1657, in Plymouth, Mass.
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
physician, United States senator, was born Nov. 4, 1729, in Plympton, Mass. He was a member of the Rhode Island committee of correspondence in 1773, was chosen deputy governor of Rhode Island the same year, and was elected a delegate from Rhode Island to the continental congress, but never took his seat. In 1793 he was elected United States senator from Rhode Island. In 1797 he was chosen president of the senate pro tempore, and later in that year he resigned his seat. He died July 6, 1808, in Bristol, R. I.
Bradford, William
soldier, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Sept. 14, 1755, in Philadelphia, Pa. At the outbreak of the revolution he entered the army as major of brigade and became lieutenant-colonel. In 1790 he was appointed attorney-general of the state; and in 1791 was commissioned as judge of the supreme court, which office he held until 1794, when he was appointed attorney-general of the United States. In 1793 he published an Inquiry how Far the Punishment of Death is Necessary in Pennsylvania, with notes and illustrations; and in the earlier periods of his life some of his poetical productions were published in the Philadelphia Magazine.
He died Aug. 23, 1795.
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.
Bradlee, Caleb Davis
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 24, 1831, in Boston, Mass. He was graduated at Harvard, in 1852, and in 1854 became pastor of the Allen street church of Cambridge, where he remained for three years. In 1864 he took charge of the church of the Redeemer, Boston, where he has since remained. He has published sermons, notably one on the death of Abraham Lincoln, and has also contributed prose and verse to newspapers and periodicals, especially the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. He is the author of Sermons for the Church; Sermons for All Sects; and Life of Starr King.
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