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met to cast their votes he was made president of the board. In Jime, 1846, he was elected United States senator, and gave hearty support to Presi- dent Polk's administration in all its measures to strengthen and support the army, and for the ratification of the treaty of peace with Mex- ico. He opposed the bill reported by Senator Clayton, in 1848, for the government of Oregon and California, and when the legislature of Maine instructed her senators to vote in favor of the '• Wihnot Proviso " upon aU bills for the govern- ment of the territories, he obeyed this instruction. At the next session the state legislature instructed the senators to vote against all bills that did not have the proviso incorporated in them, and this he declined to do, on the grovind that he did not feel authorized to leave the people of a territory without any government for such a reason. In 1850 he acted with the conservatives, and vigor- ously supported Clay's compromise. Early in 1849 he introduced a resolution for the appointment of a board of commissioners on claims. He was on a special committee and had charge of the bill to indemnify the sufferers by French spolia- tions. He served on the Judiciary committee from the commencement of his term to the end. He was also chairman of the committees on printing and on retrenchment, but President Taylor's systematic and wholesale removals of the Democrats in most of the departments at "Washington, and largely throughout the coun- try, called from Mr. Bradbury a resolution that the president be requested to lay before the senate all the charges filed in any of the depart- ments against individuals who had been re- moved from oflSce since the previous 4th of March, and the records disclosed that there had been much less proscription under Demo- cratic administrations than under the admin- istrations of their ojjponents. He declined to be a candidate for re-election to the senate. He served as an overseer of Bowdoin college from 1846 to 1851, when he was elected one of the trustees; and from 1873 was chairman of the finance committee, and made the annual reports without an exception. In 1872 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the college. He became a member of the Maine historical society in 1846, and was successfvd in obtaining from the state the grant of half a township of timber land. In 1874 he was elected president of the society, and was annually re-elected for fifteen years. He was a corporate member of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions, a bank director, a railroad director, and chairman of the building committee of the Au- gusta public library, actively filling these oner- ous positions. He died in Augusta, Maine, Jan. 6, 1901.

BRADBURY, Theophilus, jurist, was born at Newbury, Mass., Nov. 13, 1739. He was grad- uated from Harvard college in 1757, taught at Falmouth, Me., and was admitted to the bar in 1761. He remained in Maine for eighteen years, and then returned to his native town, where he became prominent in poUtics. He served in both branches of the state legislature, and was elected a representative in the 4tli U. S. Congress, was re-elected to the 5th Congress, and resigned in 1797 to become a judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts. He was a presidential elector in 1801, and died in Newburyport, Mass., Sept. 6, 1803.

BRADBURY, William Batchelder, musician, was born at York, Me., Oct. 6, 1816. From his childhood he displayed remarkable aptitude for music. At the age of fourteen he began to study the piano and organ, and after four years had become an excellent performer on the latter. He removed to New York city in 1840, and estab- lished large classes in that and surrounding cities. Although many melodious compositions had come from his hand he felt that he was not sufficiently a master of the rides of composition and harmony, and in 1847 he went abroad, and spent several years in hard study under the Ger- man teachers. He composed many songs, which had an enormous sale, and wrote numerous niag- azine articles on the subject of music. Among liis publications are: "Esther, or the Beautiful Queen," a cantata (1857) ; " The Golden Chain " (1861) ; " The Key-note " (1863) ; " The Shawm " (1864); "The Jubilee" (1865); "The Temple Choir," and "Fresh Laurels" (1867). A piano manufactory was established and conducted by Mr. Bradbury and his brother, and their pianos and organs became popular. He died in Mont- clair, N. J., Jan. 7, 1868.

BRABDURY, William Frothingham, edu- cator, was born in 'Westminster, Mass., May 17, 1829. He was graduated at Amherst in the class of 1856, of which he was valedictorian. He was appointed sub-master of the Cambridge (Mass.) high school, having previously acquired the neces- sary experience by teaching dirring the winter months of the eight years preceding his gradua- tion. He became a Hopkins classical teacher in 1865, and, after acting as head master at intervals for several years, he was, in 1881, elected to fill that office. In 1886, when the classical depart- ment became the Cambridge Latin school, he was appointed head master of that institution. Professor Bradbury published a series of text- books on mathematics, and in 1883 a history of the Cambridge high school.

BRADDOCK, Edward, British general, was born at Perthshire, Scotland, about 1695. He secured a commission in the Coldstream guards in 1710, and in 1754 had been advanced to the