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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. the same year; and was elected a delegate from Rhode Island to the continental congress, but never took his seat. In 1793-97 he was United States senator from Rhode Island. In 1797 he was chosen president of the United States senate pro tempore; and He later in that year resigned his seat. died July 6, 1808, in Bristol, R. I. Bradford, William, soldier, lawyer, jurist, author, poet, 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 Pennsylvania; in 1791-94 was an associate justice of the supreme court; and in 1794-95 he was attorney-general. In 1793 he published An Inquiry How Far the Punishment of Death is Necessary in Pennsylvania, with notes and illustrations. He died Aug. 23, 1795, in Pennsylvania. Bradford, William, painter, artist, was born in 1827 in New Bedford, Mass. He began by painting ships at Lynn; and in painting sketches of coasts not before visited by artists. He died April 25, 1893, in New Bedford, Mass. Bradish, Luther, legislator, lieutenant-governor, was born Sept. 15, 1783, in Cummington, Mass. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1827-30 and in 1835-38. 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, poet, was born Feb. 24, 1831, in Boston, Mass. In 1864-97 he was pastor of the church of the Redeemer in Boston. He published sermons, notably one on the death of Abraham Lincoln; and was the author of Sermons for the Church; Sermons for All He died Sects; and Life of Starr King. May 1, 1897, in Brookline, Mass. Bradley, Alexander, manufacturer, was bom Oct. 31, 1812, in Baltimore, Md. In 1845, with his brother Charles, he formed the firm of A. Bradley and Company; entered upon the manufacture of stoves and toward the end of his active management produced twenty-one thousand stoves a year. He died Aug. 5, 1847, in New York City. Bradley, Aloysius, clergyman, educator,

Bradley,

Charles,

was born in 1866 in Macon, 111. He attended St. Benedict's college at 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, Andrew Coyle, lawyer, jurist, was bom Feb. 12, 1844, in Washington, D.C. He was an associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. He died May 15, 1902, in Washington, D.C.

merchant, genealogist,

was born Aug. 31, 1857. He is a successful merchant of Newark, N.J.; and a director in the Newark city bank and the board of trade. In 1896 he was a delegate to the republican national convention. He edited and published his father's work on The

Bradley Family. Bradley, Charles Smith, lawyer, jurist, was 19, 1819, in Newburyport, Mass. He was repeatedly a delegate to national democratic conventions. In 1863 he was the

born July

his party for congress. He was chief justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island in 1866-68. He died April 29, 1888, in New York City.

nominee of

Bradley, Charles Trueworth, manufacturer, banker, was born Jan. 5, 1818, in Haverhill, ^lass. In 1843 he established a jobbing and manufacturing business in Milwaukee, which has continued on the same ground for nearly fifty years. He has been for more than twenty years president of the Milwaukee national bank. Bradley, Dan Freeman, educator, clergycollege president, was born March 17, 1857, in Bangkok, Siam, of American parents. In 1885 he was ordained to the congregational ministry; and in 1892-1902 was pastor of the First congregational church of

man,

Grand Rapids, Mich. In 1889-92 he was acting president of Y'^ankton college; and since 1902 he has been president of Iowa college. Bradley,

David,

manufacturer,

founder,

was born Nov. 8, 1811, in Groton, N.Y. He was educated in the common schools. At the age of twenty-one he was engaged with his brother in the manufacture of stoves and of agricultural implements in Chicago, 111. He assisted in building and starting the first iron foundry in Chicago. He became engaged in farming; and in 1842-49 he was a dealer in lumber on



lecturer,

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Lake Huron. In 1854 he returned to Chicago and resumed his former trade of manufacturing plows. The plows are known as the Clipper brand; and the establishment is one of the largest manufacturers of agricultural implements in the United States. He died Feb. 19, 1899, in Chicago,

111.

Bradley, Denis M., clergyman, bishop, wals born Feb. 25, 1846, in Ireland. In 1871-80 he filled the offices of chancellor of the diocese and rector of the cathedral at Portland, Maine. He was then appointed pastor of St. Joseph's church of Manchester, N.H. and in 1884 was consecrated bishop of Manchester. He died in 1903 in Manchester, N.H.

Bradley, Edward, lawyer, jurist, state senwas born April, 1808, in East Bloomfield, N.Y. When twenty-eight ator, congressman,