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400 branch of the city government. In 1887-90 he was lieutenant-governor; and was the thirty-fifth governor of Massachusetts in 1890-91.

Brackett, Joshua, physician, philanthropist, was born May 5, 1773, in Greenland, N. H. He was a zealous patriot; a, member of the state committee of safety; and during the revolution was judge of the New Hampshire maritime court. He was a founder of the state medical society; and was its president in 1793-99. He gave it one hundred and forty-three volumes of medical works at its establishment. He bequeathed a legacy to Harvard toward founding a professorship of natural history. He died July 17, 1802, in Portsmouth, N.H.

Brackett, Walter M., portrait painter, artwas born June 14, 1833, in Unity, Maine. He gave his attention to portraits and ideal heads; and executed likenesses of Charles Sumner, Edward Everett, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. He also painted portraits of the first four secretaries of war for the war department at Washington, D.C. ist,

Bradbury, Albert William, soldier, lawyer, author, was born in 1840 in Calais, Maine. He served in the civil war in Sheridan's army; and was appointed chief of artillery of the army of the Shenandoah. He has been city solicitor of Portland; and was appointed United States district attorney for Maine in 1894. He is the author of Voyage to Labrador.

Bradbury, George, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1770 in Portland, Maine. In 1806-10 he was a member of the

Maine state

legislature;

and also

in 1811-13.

In 1813-17 he was a representative from the Cumberland district Massachusetts to the thirteenth and fourteenth congresses. He was a state senator in 1833. He died Nov. in Maine. Portland, 7, 1833,

Bradbury, James Ware, lawyer. United States senator, was born in 1805 in York county, Maine. He was educated in the public schools; in 1835 he graduated from Bowdoin

college.

He

to captain. Since then he has been in the railroad service as conductor, agent, general agent, general freight agent, general manager and vice-president.

Bradbury, Joseph P., lawyer, jurist. In 1898-1900 he was an associate justice of the state supreme court of Ohio; and in 1900 be-

came

chief justice.

Bradbury, Osgood Nathan, physician, surgeon, state senator, author, was born Oct. 28, 1838, in Norway, Maine. During the civil war he was surgeon in the United States army for two years; and for thirteen years was United States examining surgeon for pensions. He served in the Maine state legislature for one year; and for two years was a, member of the Maine state senate. He is the author of History of Forest Lodge.

Bradbury, Theophilus, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1739, in Newburyport, Mass. In 1795-99 he was representative from Massachusetts to the fourth and fifth congresses. He was a presidential elector in 1801; and in 1797-1803 was a judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts. He died Sept. 6, 1803, in Massachusetts. Bradbury, William Batchelder, musician, composer, was born Oct. 6, 1816, in York, Maine. In 1840 he began teaching in New York City and Brooklyn. He gained popularity by his free singing-schools and by his concerts, at which the performers, all children, sometimes numbered one thousand.

He

died Jan.

tial

elector;

and

He is the author of Sight Arithmetic; and of several school.

mathematical

1847-53 he was United States senator from Maine, serving as chairman of the

committee

on

printing- He was president

of the Maine historical society; and the author of a speech entitled On Territorial Governments.

Mame.

He

died Jan.

6,

1901, in Augusta, ^

Bradbury, George Lewis, soldier, railroad manager, was born March 10, 1843, in Nova Scotia. He was in the army from Massachusetts in 1861-65, serving from private up

text-

books. He is the inventor and patentee of a device for illustrating the metric system of weights and was a member of the Cam-

be-

in

1868. in Montelair, N.J.

from Amherst college. He is the head master in the Cambridge latin

came a noted lawyer; and was county attorney" in 1834-38. In 1844 he was presiden-

7.

Bradbury, William Frothingham, educator, inventor, author, was born May 17, 1839, in Westminster, Mass. He attended the Westminster academy; and in 1856 he graduated

measures. He bridge city government two years. For forty-four years he has been a member of the Handel and Haydn society; one of its directors for more than twenty-two years past; and its secretary for ten years.

Braden, David, soldier, was born in PennHe attained the rank of captain the civil war.

Braden, James Andrew, journalist, author was born July 10, 1873, in Greensburg, Ohio. Since 1890 he has been engaged in journalism; and is a resident of Akron, Ohio He is the author of Par Past the FrontierConnecticut Boys in the Western Reserveand other works. sylvania.