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Bradford, Taul, soldier, lawyer, congress-

tween Two Masters; and Matthew Porter,

man, was born Jan. 20, 1835, in Mardisville, the Ala During the civil war he served in confederate army. In 1871 he was elected servto the Alabama state legislature; and ed two sessions. In 1875-77 he was a representative from Alabama to the forty-

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Bradford, Gamaliel, soldier, was born in Maine. In 1865 he joined the West India squadron as watch officer and engineer; and He in 1904 was promoted to rear-admiral. retired in 1906 with the rank of commander of the third squadron North Atlantic fleet. Bradford, Ira B., lawyer, banker, statesman, was born June 24, 1851, in Fulton, Wis. He is a noted lawyer of Augusta, Wis.; of which city he has been mayor. In 1880 he was a member of the Wisconsin state assembly; and the following year was made speaker of that body. He can trace his lineage back to the celebrated Governor Bradford of the Massachusetts colony. Bradford, James Henry, clergyman, chaplain, was born Aug. 24, 1836, in Grafton, Vt. He received a thorough education at East Hampton; and at Yale university. He has been pastor in Hudson, Wis.; and for ten years was in charge of reformatories in New England. For many years he has been connected with the Indian bureau at WashingFor sixteen years he was chapton, D.C. lain of the District of Columbia commandery military order loyal legion; and for twentyfive years chaplain of Garfield post grand army of the republic. For the past five years he has been chaplain-in-chief of the grand army of the republic at Washington, D.C. Bradford, John, journalist, legislator, author, was born in 1749 in Fauquier county, Va. In 1789 he established the Kentucky Gazette; and was elected several times to the Kentucky state legislature. He was the first public printer of Kentucky; and in 1802 conveyed his establishment to his son. He was the author of a work entitled Notes on Kentucky. He died in March, 1830, in Lexington, Ky.

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fleet captain of the South Atlantic blockading squadron in 1863-65; and 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 iEIill 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, Royal Bird, rear admiral North Atlantic fleet United States navy, was born July 22, 1844, in Turner, Maine. In 1865 he graduated from the United States naval academy. In 1868 he became master; in 1878 lieutenant -commander; in 1889 commander; and captain in 1899. In 1904 he became rear admiral in the United States navy; and resides in Washington, D.C.

fourth congress. Bradford, Thomas, soldier, printer, jourPhiladelnalist, was bom May 4, 1745, in He entered his father's printing phia, Pa. He became his partner and associate office. 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 commissary-general of the Pennsylvania division of the continental army. After the establishment of the federal government he.

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became printer to congress. He was one of the founders of the Philosophical society. He died May 7, 1838, in Philadelphia, Pa. Bradford, Thomas Lindsley, physician, author, was born June 6, 1847, in Francestown, N.H. He is a physician of PhiladelHomoeopathic phia. He is the author of B'ibliograpiiy of the United States from the years 1825 to 1891; Life of Hahnemann; The Logic of Figures The Pioneers of Homoeopathy; and other works. Bradford, William, colonial governor, author, was born in March, 1588, in England. He was governor of the Plymouth colony in 1621-57. He left in manuscript n History of Plymouth Plantation, the leisurely com-

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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 position of

exhibits judicial impartiality. He died May 9, 1657, in Plymouth, Mass. Bradford, William, printer, journalist, was born in 1658 in England. In 1685 he set up his printing press, the first one south of Nftw England and the third one in the colonies. The same year he issued the Kalendarium Pennsilvaniense for 1686. In 1690 he joined with two others in building a paper mill on the Schuylkill. He died May 23, 1752, in New York City. Bradford, William, soldier, printer, journalist, author, was born in 1719 in New York. In 1741 he went to England; the

next year he returned to Philadelphia with printing material and a library and in 1742 issued the first number of the Pennsylvania Journal. When the revolutionary war began he joined the Pennsylvania militia. As a major and 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