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college. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. He has made valuable researches in organic chemistry; and on critical constants of liq-

Bradshaw, William Richard, journalist, auwas born Jan. 14, 1851, in Ireland. In

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1886-87 he was editor of the Literary Life of Chicago, 111.; and was editor of the Decorater and Furnisher in 1890-96. He is an authority on questions of decorative art. He is the author of The Goddess of Atvatabar. Bradstreet, Mrs. Anne Dudley, author, po-

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Warren Ives, author, was born 20, 1847, in Forestville, Conn. He pu-

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under the pen-name of Glance Gaybooks for children. These include Boys at Dr. Murray's; Gilbert Starr and His Lessons; Uncle Bonnie's Home; Culm Rock, for which he received a prize; Gay Cottage; Gilbert's Last Summer at Eainsford; Will Rood's Friendship; After Years; Donald Deane and His Cross Jack Arcombe, the Story of a Waif; Miss Patience Hathaway; and Mr. Pendleton's Cup. He died June 15, 1868, in Forestville, Conn. Bradley, William Aspenwall, journalist, author, was born Feb. 8, 1838, in Hartford, Conn. He edited several volumes of belles lettres. He is the author of William Cullen Bryant in the English Men of Letters Series. Bradley, William Czar, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born March 23, 1782, in Westminster, Vt. In 1806-07 he was a repre;

sentative to the state legislature; and in 1812 a member of the state council. In 181315 and 1823-27 he was a representative from Vermont to the thirteenth, eighteenth and nineteenth congresses. In 1856 he was a presidential elector; and in 1857 was a member of the state constitutional convention. In 1858 he took formal leave of the bar, at which he had practiced for fifty-four years. He died March 3, 1867, in Westminster, Vt.

Bradley, William L., manufacturer, was born in 1826 in Cheshire, Conn. He built a factory in the back bay district of Boston; and transacted a business in the manufacture of fertilizers, which now employs over fifteen hundred men and a capital of over four million dollars. In 1872 he organized the Bradley fertilizer company. Bradley, William O'Connell, lawyer. United States senator, was born March 18, 1847, near Lancaster, Ky. In 1865 he began the practice of law; and in 1872 was presidential elector. He was a delegate at large to the republican national conventions of 1880, 1884, 1888, 1892, 1900 and 1904. In 1889 he was appointed minister to Korea but declined. In 1895 he was governor of Kentucky. He is now United States senator for the term ending ]913. soldier, was born in York. He served in the civil war; and in ]863 became captain and assistant quartermaster of volunteers. Bradshaw, Robert Charles, soldier, was born in Missouri. In 1861 he enlisted as a private soldier in the thirteenth regiment Missouri infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted

Bradshaw, Albert M.,

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brigadier-general of volunteers. Bradshaw, Samuel C, physician, congressman, was born June 10, 1809, in Plumstead, Pa. In 1855-57 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-fourth congress. "^e died about 1880 in Quakertown, Pa.

was born about 1612 in England. She was first American woman of letters; and was called by her contemporaries the tenth muse. Her prose work includes a brief autothe

biographic sketch. Religious Experiences; Meditations Divine and Moral, a series of shrewd, strong aphorisms. In her lifetime she was known only as a poet; and her verse comprises elegies and epitaphs. She was the author of The Four Monarchies, a rhymed chronicle of ancient history; The Four Elements; The Four Humors of Man; The Four Ages of Man; The Four Seasons of the Year; Dialogue between Old England and New; and Contemplations. She died Sept. 16, 1672. Bradstreet, John, soldier, was born in 1711 in England. He participated in the attack on Ticonderoga in 1758; after which he was made full quartermaster-general with the rank of colonel. He captured Fort Frontenac, which he razed to the ground; and destroyed such stores as could not be removed. He served under Amherst in his expedition against Ticonderoga and Crown Point in 1759; received his colonelcy in 1762; and was advanced to the rank of major-general in 1772. During Pontiac's war he commanded an expedition against the western Indi-

ans; and with whom he negotiated a treaty of peace in Detroit in 1764. He died Sept. 25, 1774, in

New York

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Bradstreet, Simon, colonial governor,

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born in 1603 in England. He emigrated to Massachusetts in 1630. In 1673-79 he was deputy governor; and was then appointed governor. He resigned this office in 1686; was chosen governor again three years later and served in that capacity until 1692. He died March 27, 1697, in Salem, Mass. Bradwell, James Bolesworth, lawyer, jurist, publisher, statesman, was born April 16, 1828, in Loughborough, England. At the age of sixteen months he was brought by his parents to the United States; and was reared on a farm in Wheaton, 111. In 1852 he was admitted to the bar; in 1861-69 he was judge of the Cook county court; and in 1873-75 was a representative to the Illinois state legislature. He has been president of the Chicago bar association; president of the Illinois state bar association; and introduced and secured the passage of the bill making

women

eligible to all school offices.

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invented a process for making half tones; and produced the first half tone cut ever made in Chicago. He was a director of the Chicago Legal News, of which his wife, the late Mrs. Myra Colby Bradwell, was for many years the honored editor. He was president of the soldiers' home in Chicago; and in