Bradley, Alexander – Bradley, William O'Connell
Bradley, Alexander
manufacturer, was born Oct. 31, 1812, in Baltimore, Md. In 1845, with his brother Charles, he formed the firm of A. Bradley and Co., and entered upon the manufacture of stoves; and toward the end of his active management produced 21,000 stoves a year. He finally retired from that industry, leaving the business to his thirtieth congress. He died Aug. 5, 1847. in New York city.
Bradley, James
jurist. He was a resident of Indiana; and was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Nebraska.
Bradley, James
soldier, clergyman, legislator, author, was born Sept. 15, 1835, in Missouri. He served through the war as a private in Cockrell's brigade. He is a clergyman and the author of a work entitled Confederate Mail Carriers, or History of the War in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. He has also served with distinction as a member of the Missouri state legislature.
Bradley, John E
educator, lecturer, college president, was born Aug. 8, 1839, in Lee, Mass. He graduated from Williams college in 1865, and at once entered the profession of teaching in the high schools of Pittsfield, Mass., Albany, N. Y., and Minneapolis, Minn. In 1892 he became president of the Illinois college of Jacksonville, Ill.; and has become widely known as a speaker and writer on educational topics.
Bradley, Joseph P
educator, lawyer, jurist, was born March 14, 1813, in Berne, N. Y. He became associate justice of the supreme court of the United States in 1870; and was a presidential elector in 1868. He died Jan. 22, 1892, in Washington, D. C.
Bradley, Aloysius
clergyman, educator, lecturer, was born in 1866, in Macon, Ill. He attended St. Benedict's college of Atchison, Kan.; and graduated from the college of Ann Arbor, Mich. In 1891 he founded the Abbey Student, a magazine of which he is editor and owner. He fills the chair of professor of literary criticism, belles-lettres and mental philosophy, in St. Benedict's college, of which institution he has also served as librarian.
Bradley, Charles Trueworth
manufacturer, banker, was born Jan. 5, 1818, in Haverhill, Mass. In 1843 he went to Milwaukee and established a jobbing and manufacturing business, which they have continued on the same ground for nearly fifty years; and he has been for more than twenty years president of the Milwaukee national bank.
Bradley, Denis
R. C. bishop, was born in 1846, in Ireland. He was ordained in 1871, and stationed at the cathedral in Portland, Maine, where he remained nine years, filling the offices of chancellor of the diocese and rector of the cathedral. He was then appointed pastor of St. Joseph's church, Manchester, N. H., and in 1884 was consecrated bishop of Manchester.
Bradley, Edward
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born April, 1808, in East Bloomfield, N. Y.
When twenty-eight years of age he was appointed associate judge of the common pleas of his native county; and in 1839 he removed to Michigan and engaged in the practice of law. In 1842 he was elected to the senate of Michigan; and was a representative from that state to the son.
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Bradley, Leonidas Hamaline
lawyer, was born July 23, 1841, in Patriot, Ohio. In 1861 he graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university, and received the degree of B. A.; and subsequently received the degree of A. M. He served as a union soldier during the civil war for three years; and was assistant acting adjutant-general at Fort Pickering, Memphis, Tenn. In 1866 he was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Illinois. He lived in Springfield, Ill., during 1865-86, and there took an active part in local affairs; was a member of the city council, and assistant United States attorney for the southern district of Illinois, and was instrumental in breaking up the whisky ring during 1868- 73.
He then removed to Omaha, Neb., where he holds a place in the front ranks as an able lawyer.
Bradley, Lewis R
legislator, governor, was born Feb. 18, 1805, in Osage county, Va. In 1860 he was elected to the California state legislature. In 1866 he removed to Nevada; and in 1870 was elected governor of that state, and reelected in 1874.
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.
Bradley, Nathan B
jurist, legislator, state senator, congressman, was born May 28, 1831, in Lee, Mass. He was elected a justice of the peace three terms; a supervisor one term; an alderman three terms; and was the first mayor of Bay City, Mich., declining a renomination.
He was elected to the state senate in 1866, but declined a renomination; and was elected to the forty-third and fortyfourth congresses as a republican.
Bradley, Nathaniel Lyman
manufacturer, was born Dec. 27, 1829, in Cheshire, Conn. He has served the city as alderman and acting mayor; is president of the Meriden Park company, and president of the Meriden hospital. The Bradley and Hubbard Manufacturing company, from a small concern, employing only six workmen, has grown to own and occupy an immense plant of brick buildings, with a floor area of nearly seven acres, employing about 1,500 operatives, with offices and sales rooms in New York, Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia.
Bradley, Samuel
lawyer, was born in Fryeburg, Maine. In 1820 ne graduated from Bowdoin college, and attained success as one of the foremost lawyers of New England. During 1824- 45 he practiced his profession at Hollis, and died in 1849 in Saco, Maine.
Bradley, Stephen Roe
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1754, in Wallingford, Conn. He was the first senator from Vermont in the congress of the United States, serving from 1791 to 1795, and from 1801 to 1813. He died Dec. 9, 1830, in Walpole, N. H.
Bradley, Thomas J
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 2, 1870, in New York city. He taught in the public schools of New York city from 1887 until 1891, at the same time attending the university law school, from which institution he was graduated as a bachelor of laws in 1889. In 1891 he was appointed deputy assistant district attorney of the county of New a York, which position he held till July, 1895, when he resigned to attend to nis private law practice. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as the regular democratic candidate.
Bradley, Warren Ives
author, was born March 20, 1847, in Forestville, Conn. He published, under the pen-name of Glance Gaylord, books for children.
These include Boys at Dr. Murray's; Gilbert Starr and his Lessons; Uncle Donnie's Home; Culm Rock, the Story of a Year, for which he received a prize of $350 over seventy-two competitors; Gay Cottage; Gilbert's Last Summer at Rainsford, and What it Taught; Will Rood's Friendship; After Years; Donald Deane and his Cross; Jack Arcombe, the Story of a Waif; Miss Patience Hathaway; and Mr. Pendleton's Cup. He died June 15, 1868, in Forestville, Conn.
Bradley, William Czar
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born March 23, 1782, in Westminster, Vt. In 1806 and 1807 he was a representative in the state legislature; in 1812, a member of the state council; a representative in congress from 1813 to 1815; again in congress from 1823 to 1827; in 1850 again in the state legislature; in 1856 a presidential elector; and in 1857 a member of the state constitutional convention. In 1858 he took formal leave of the bar, at which he had practiced for fifty-four years. He died March 3, 1867, in Westminster, Vt.
Bradley, William L
manufacturer, was born in 1826, in Cheshire, Conn.
He built a factory in the back bay district of Boston, and transacted a business in the manufacture of fertilizers the first year, which now employs over fifteen hundred men and a capital of over $4,- 000,000. In 1872 Mr. Bradley organized the Bradley Fertilizer company.
Bradley, William O'Connell
lawyer, legislator, was born March 18, 1847, near Lancaster, Ky. In 1875 he was nominated for United States senator, and received the vote of his party in that body; and in 1876 made the race as the republican cardidate for congress, but was defeated. In 1896 he was elected governor of Kentucky as a republican.