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LL.D. During President Fillmore's administra- tion lie was assistant United States treasurer at New York. He then retired to private life, making his home in New York city, and occupied his time in various philanthropic projects. He was president of the American Bible society for many years, and of the New York historical society from 1850 imtil his death, which occurred at Newport, R. I., Aug. 30, 1863.

BRADLEE, Caleb Davis, clergyman, was born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 24, 1831; son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Williams) Bradlee. His paternal grandfather, Nathaniel Bradlee, was one of the so-called ' ' Indians ' ' who tlire w the tea overboard in Boston harbor, and his maternal grandfather, Caleb Davis, was the first speaker of the Massachusetts house of representatives under the state con- stitution, and one of the presidential elec- tors, who, in 1789, cast the vote of Massachu- setts for George Washington. Mr. Bradlee's prepara- tory education was acquired at the Chauncy hall school in Boston, and in 1852 he was gr a d u a t e d from Harvard college. While an undergraduate he founded the Biblical literature society, which afterwards became the Boston yoimg men's Chris- tian union. He then studied theology and became pastor of the Allen street Congregational church, Cambridge, in 1854. June 7, 1855, he was married to Caroline, daughter of George Gay, of Boston, Mass. In 1855 he received the degree of A.M. from Harvard, and in 1861 he assumed charge of the chiirch of Our Father in East Boston. In 1864 he became pastor of the church of the Re- deemer in Boston ; in 1868 was made one of the faculty of the Boston school for the ministry ; in 1873 he accepted the charge of the Christian unity society, and in 1876, of the church at Harrison Square. In 1890 he served for one year as pastor of a new church in Dorchester. He was made a member of the Royal Asiatic society of Shanghai, China; the Royal society of northern antiqua- ries, Copenhagen, Denmark; the Royal academy of heraldry, Pisa, Italy ; the Clarendon historical society, Edinburgh, Scotland, and the prominent historical societies of the United States, besides nimierous literary societies and clubs. In 1893 he assumed the pastorate of Christ church in Brookline, Mass., and in November. 1896, he re- signed on account of feeble health, his resignation

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taking effect May 1, 1897. He is the author of several volumes of poems; a collection of ser- mons entitled, *• Sermons for all Sects "' (1888) ; " Sermons for the Church " (1893); "Recollec- tions of a Ministry of Forty Years, 1854-1894" (1895). He died in BrookUne, Mass., May 1, 1897.

BRADLEY, Denis Mary, R.C. bishop, was born in Castleisland parish, Ireland, Feb. 25, 1846. His i^arents immigrated to America and set- tled in Manchester, N. H., in 1854, where he received his jDreliminarj' education in the paro- chial schools, studying subsequently at the Holy Cross college, Worcester, Mass. In 1867 he en- tered St. Joseph's seminary at Troy, N. Y.. where he pursued his philosophical and theological studies, being ordained a priest June 3, 1871. He was appointed rector of the cathedral in Port- land, Me., and served also as chancellor of the diocese under Bishops Bacon and Healy until June, 1880, when he was made pastor of St. Joseph's church at Manchester, N. H. On June 11, 1884, he was consecrated as the first bishop of that diocese. Through his active and zealous work parochial schools were established and vari- ous religious communities of men and women introduced. He erected a college, an orphan asylum, and a hospital, and materially enlarged the cathedral.

BRAI>LEV, Isaac Samuel, librarian, was born at Albany, N. Y^., Oct. 21, 1853. He was at an early age taken by his parents to Madison, Wis., where he was graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1875, and in the same year was appointed assistant librarian of the state histori- cal society of Wisconsin. His eighteen years' faithful service as assistant proved his capacity to care for a collection of over one hundred and eighty-five thousand books and pamphlets. In 1892 lie succeeded Mr. Durrie as librarian.

BRADLEY, John Edwin, educator, was born in Lee, Mass., in 1845; son of Stephen and Hannah (Austin) Bradley and a descendant of William Bradley, New Haven, Conn., 1635. He was graduated at Williams college in 1865. was principal of the high school at Pittsfield, Mass., 1865-"8, atAlbany, N.Y". 1868-86, and was a com- missioner from New York to the Paris exposition in 1878. He was superintendent of city schools at Minneapolis. Minn., 1886-92 ; a member of the National council of education in 1889. and presi- dent and professor of mental and moral science at Illinois college, 1892-99. He was a trustee of Williams college 1888-92 and of Carleton college from 1887 ; received the degree Ph.D. from the University of the city of Y^'ew York in 1879, and LL.D. from Williams in 1897. He is the author of "Science and Industry" (1884): " Unconscious Education" (1894); "Work and Play"; "Talks with Students."