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WILLIAM BRADFORD, American horticulturist, born in Delta, O., in 1859. He studied at Ohio State University and George Washington University and carried on post-graduate superintendent of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station from 1882 to 1886. studies in Germany and France. He was From 1886 to 1888 he was special agent of the United States Department of Agriculture. From 1888 to 1904 he was vice-director of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station. He carried on important researches in horticulture and mycology, was appointed enological chemist in the United States Bureau of Chemistry in 1906, wrote much on horticultural subjects, and was a member of many American and foreign horticultural and other scientific societies.