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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY city of Peoria the well known Bradley park, Bradley home for aged women, and founded the Bradley polytechnic institute, giving a quarter of a million dollars for building, grounds and equipment, and two million dollars endowment fund. She died Jan. 16,

1908, in Peoria,

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Lyman, manufacturer,

inventor, 1807, in Cayuga, N.Y. He formed the acquaintance of a chemist who was experimenting on a process for manufacturing sugar from corn. With very little capital, and in the face of the most discouraging circumstances, he joined in the enter-

Bradley,

was born June

prise



and by

7,

his

own study and energy com-

pleted the process. This was the beginning After perfectof the corn- sugar industry. ing and patenting the method he disposed of his interest for a handsome fortune, a greater part of which he devoted to the payment of outlawed debts. He was also the inventor of a process for preserving fruit. He died May 18, 1888, in Buffalo, N.Y.

Mary Emily

Neely, author, poet, was bom Nov. 29, 1834, in Easton, Md. She 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, Milton, manufacturer, author, was born Nov. 8, 1836, in Vienna, Maine. He organized the Milton Bradley company of Springfield, Mass. He is the author of Color in the Kindergarten; and other works. Bradley, Mrs.

Bradley, Nathan B., jurist, legislator, state senator, congressman, was born May 28, 1831, in Lee, Mass. He was the first mayor of Bay City, Mich. He was elected to the Michigan state senate in 1866; and declined a renomination. In 1873-77 he was a representative from Michigan to the fortythird and forty-fourth congresses as a republican. He died Nov. 8, 1906, in Bay City, Mich. Bradley, Nathaniel Lyman, manufacturer, was bom Dec. 27, 1829, in Cheshire, Conn. He has served his city as alderman and acting mayor; he is president of the Meriden Park 1

company; and

presid-

ent of the Meriden ho-

The Bradley and Hubbard manuf-

spital.

company

acturing from a small concern employing only six

workmen, has grown to own and occupy an plant of immense brick buildings with a floor area of nearly seven acres, employing nearly two thousand operatives.

Bradford, Royal Bird, naval officer, was born July 22, 1844, in- Turner, Maine. In 1865 he graduated from the United States

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naval academy; and was promoted through several grades from ensign to commander. In 1883 he commanded the placing of an electrical lighting plant aboard the Trenton, the first man-of-war of any nation to use electricity. He commanded the United States steamer Bennington off the coast of Chili during the threatened war with that country. In 1898 he was appointed naval attache to the United States and Spanish commission; and in 1899 was advanced to the grade of captain. During the Spanish-American war he attained the rank of rear-admiral; and was at the head of the bureau of equipment. Bradley, Samuel, lawyer, was born in Fryeburg, Maine. He attained success as one of the foremost lawyers of New England. In 1824-45 he practiced his profession in HoUis, Maine. He died in 1849 in Saco, Maine. Bradley, Stephen Roe, soldier, lawyer. United States senator, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1754, in Wallingford, Conn. In 1791-

was United States senator from Vermont. He was the author of Vermont's Appeal. He died Dec. 9, 1830, in Walpole, N.H. 95 and 1801-13 he

Bradley,

Thomas

J.,

lawyer, congressman,

1870, in New York City. He taught in the public schools of New York City in 1887-91; and at the same time attending the university law,

was born Jan.

2,

school, from which institution he was grad^[|l *pi j| uated as a bachelor of laws in 1889. In 1891 he was appointed a deputy assistant district attorney of the county 2*^(8^^ m^'Sr I of New York, which position he held until ^^^^^^^]||[^^^^| 1895, when he resigned to attend to his private law practice. In 1897-1901 he was a representative to the fifty-fifth congress as a deniocr t. He died in 1901, in New York City.

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Bradley,

Thomas W.,

was born April

soldier,

congressman,

1844. He entered the union army as a private soldier; passed through all intermediate grades; and became a captain in the one hundred and twenty- fourth regiment New York volunteers. He was awarded the congressional medal of honor for gallantry at Chancellorsville ; and was brevetted major of United States volunteers for meritorious service during the campaign ter6,

minating at Appomattox. In 1876 he was a representative in the New York state legislature. In 1905-11 he was a representative from New York to the fifty-eighth, fiftyninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a republican. Bradley, Walter Parke, educator, scientist, was born July 7, 1862, in Lee, Mass. In 1884 he received the degree of A.B. from Williams college; and in 1899 received the degree of Ph.B. from Gottingen university. Since 1893 he has been professor of chemistry in Willi-