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 76 BRADLEE. BRAGDON. ton, with a description of the Cochituate water-works. He was the executor and trustee of a large number of estates, and held a very large amount of trust property, being trustee for over forty persons. He was a member of the commission appointed by the supreme court in rela- tion to the location of the union station at NATHANIEL J BRADLEE Worcester. His associates were the late Chief Justice George T. Bigelow, and the late Governor Onslow Stearns of New Hampshire. Mr. Bradlee was president of the Massa- chusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, the Franklin Savings Bank, and Boston Storage Warehouse Company ; one of the trustees of the New England Trust Company, and the Safe Deposit and 'Trust Company. He was also director in the Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Boston &: Maine Railroad, East- ern Railroad, Maine Central Railroad, the New England Mutual Fife Insurance Com- pany, and president of the Adamanta Man- ufacturing Company, the Massachusetts Title Insurance Company, the Chauncy Hall school, and the Roxbury Club. In 1876 he was the candidate of the citi- zens and on the Republican ticket for mayor. In 1887 he was nominated by the citizens' committee for the mayoralty, but declined the nomination. Mr. Bradlee was married April 27, 1856, to Julia R., the daughter of George F. Weld, formerly a merchant of Baltimore. She died August 11, 1880. He married again, December 29, 1881, Anna M., the daughter of Josiah H. Vose, of Rob- binston, Maine. In the death of Mr. Bradlee the city of Boston lost an enterprising, public spirited and loyal son, the business community a model of probity and intelligent adminis- tration of sacred trusts, social life a con- spicuous and ever welcome guest, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts one of her most modest — yet representative — sons. BRADY, Philip Edward, son of Philip and Rose (Goodwin) Brady, was born in Attleborough, Bristol county, August 16, 1859. He received his early education in the common schools of his native town, graduating from the high school in the class of 1877. F'pon leaving school he entered a large jewelry manufacturing establishment in Attleborough, with the intention of fol- lowing that business, but a favorable op- portunity presenting itself for studying law, for which he always had a prefer- ence, he entered Harvard University law school in the fall of 1879, and graduated with the class of 1882, of which he was the youngest member, and received the degree of FF. B. He then entered the law office of George A. Adams, of Attleborough, and was admitted to the Boston bar in the spring of 1883. Mr. Brady made a trip to Europe in the early part of 1885, on which occasion he traveled through Great Britain and France, and obtained a very good insight of the man- ners and customs of the mother country. Upon his return to the States, in the fall of the same year, he opened a law office in North Attleborough, where he practiced until July, 1SS6, when President Cleveland appointed him postmaster of Attleborough, when he removed to that town, continuing his practice there while attending to the duties of his official position. Mr. Brady is president of the High School Alumni Association, to which he was elected in 1887. BRAGDON, Charles Cushman, son of Rev. Charles P. and Sarah (Cushman) Bragdon, was born in Auburn, Cayuga county, N. Y., September 6, 1847. He' attended the public schools of his native town, and afterwards fitted for col-