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BRADFORD  Monthly, American Chirurgical Review, Louisville Semi-monthly News. His cases of ovariotomy have been published by Dr. E. R. Peaslee of New York.

Two articles by him are:

"Selections from a Report on Ovariotomy," read before the Kentucky State Medical Society, at its annual meeting at Louisville, April, 1857. "Complete Rupture of the Perineum of Ten Years' Standing, Successfully Operated On." Reprinted from Cincinnati Lancet and Obstetrics, 1869.

Yandell thus describes him: "In manners he was dignified, urbane, cordial and gentle. Of an imposing presence he was a man to attract notice and command respect in any circle; and his warm feelings, varied attainments, and social nature made him one of the most charming of companions."

He died on the thirty-first of October, 1871, in the fifty-third year of his age, the disease which terminated his life being abscess of the liver.



Bradford, William (1729–1808)

William Bradford, physician, lawyer and legislator of Rhode Island, was born at Plympton, Mass., November 4, 1729, and died at Bristol, Rhode Island, July 6, 1808.

He was a descendant of Governor Bradford, received a good education, and studied medicine under (q.v.) of Hingham, Mass. After a few years' practice at Warren, R. I., he removed to Bristol in the same state where he erected a fine house on Mount Hope. He studied and practised law, attaining high rank in that profession. 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. During the cannonade of Bristol, October 7, 1775, Governor Bradford went on board The Rose in behalf of the inhabitants, and treated with Capt. Wallace for the cessation of the bombardment. From 1793 to 1797 he was a United States senator and in the latter year was president of the senate pro tempore.

His son, Major William Bradford (1752–1811), H. U. 1773, was aide to Gen. Charles Lee of the Revolutionary Army.



Bradley, Samuel Beach (1796–1880)

Samuel Beach Bradley, physician and botanist, son of the Rev. Joel Bradley and Mary Anne Beach, was born in Westmoreland, Oneida County, New York, August 14, 1796. He graduated at Union College, 1814, then studied medicine with Seth Hastings who had an extensive botanical garden for the special use of his students, and it was here that young Bradley became interested in botany and made a thorough study of the local flora.

He practised in Eaton, New York, and in 1820 moved to Parma, New York; in 1823 he settled in West Greece, Monroe County, which became his home the rest of his life.

As a botanist his reputation was more than local. He is cited as an authority in Gray's Botany (5th ed.); in Paine's "Catalogue of Plants of Oneida County and Vicinity" (1865) he is given as the sole authority for twenty-one species of plants found in the neighborhood of Rochester; and in the "List of Plants of Monroe County, New York and Adjacent Territory," published by the Rochester Academy of Science (1896), he was credited with eleven species not hitherto reported. A close and accurate observer, his work along the lake shore, inlets and ponds was particularly thorough.

Dr. Bradley was a noted linguist, a master of seven languages, and an indefatigable reader.

He was rather stout, with broad shoulders and a fine head, broad forehead, eyes dark and brilliant.

He was twice married, first in 1817 to Cornelia Bradley, who lived only a few months; second to Mrs. Sarah Bartlett Crane. His children were two daughters, and a son, William Bradley (1838–1907), who became a physician of Evanston, Illinois.

The last months were devoted to naming and rearranging the specimens in his herbarium; the greater part of which at his death was given to the Northwestern University, a part remaining in the Rochester Academy of Science.

He died at his home in West Greece, October 3, 1880.



Brainard, Daniel (1812–1866)

Daniel Brainard, Chicago surgeon, was born in the town of Western, Oneida Co., N. Y., May 15, 1812. He was the fifth child in a family of nine born to Jepthai Brainard, Jr., and Catharine Comstock Brainard. The ancestor of the Brainards in this country was