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Raymond (BRADFORD PAUL an American)

BRADFORD PAUL, an American clergyman; born in Stamford, Conn., April 22, 1846; was educated at Minn., and Lawrence University , Wis., and was graduated at the Theological School of Boston University and ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Episcopal Church in 1874. He held pas- Bedford, Mass., Providence, R. I., and in Nashua, N. H., and was president of Lawrence University from 1883 to 1889, resigning to become RAYNAL president of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn . Died 1916.

American journalist; born in Lima, N.

Y., Jan. 24, 1820; was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1840; soon afterward removed to New York; and, while wrote for the "New Yorker." In 1841 studying law, taught the classics and he became managing editor of the New York "Tribune," and afterward leading Enquirer." In 1849 he was elected to editor of the New York " Courier and the State Assembly; was re-elected and made speaker . In 1851, he established the New York " Times." In 1852 he bevention, and in 1856 a leader of the came a delegate to the Baltimore Con- Republican party, and was chosen lieutenant-governor of New York. He was of 1860; was again elected to the State a delegate to the Chicago Convention Legislature, and , in 1864, was chosen as representative from New York to the . He subsequently, in 1866, was the leading spirit of the Wig- Convention in Philadelphia, the resolutions of which body were from his pen. He died in New York, June 18, 1869.