Bradford (City in McKean co Pa)
a city in McKean co., Pa., on several railroads; 15 miles N. W. of Smethport, the county-seat. It is in an extensive coal, oil, and natural gas region, and is principally engaged in industries connected therewith, besides having machinery, chemical, boiler, and brick and tile works. The city has electric street railroads, daily and weekly newspapers, National banks, large hospital, and several libraries. Pop. (1910) 14,- 544; (1920) 15,525.
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Bradford (Municipal and parliamentary)
a municipal and parliamentary borough and important manufacturing town in the W. Riding of Yorkshire, England. The more modern portion has well built streets, and since 1861, most extensive street improvements have been carried out at a cost of about $5,- 000,000. There is a large number of scientific, educational, and charitable institutions, among which are the new technical college, the free grammar school endowed by Charles II., the fever hospital, built at a great cost, and the almshouses of the Tradesmen's Beneyolent Society. There are several public parks, and an extensive system of waterworks which afford a supply of about 10,000,000 gallons a day. Bradford is the chief seat in England of the spinning and weaving of worsted yarn and woolens. Pop. (1917) 206,338.
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Bradford (WILLIAM an American colonial)
WILLIAM, an American colonial governor and author, born in Austerfield, Yorkshire, England, in March, 1588. He was one of the signers of the celebrated compact on the Mayflower; and, in 1621, on the death of the first governor, John Carver, was elected to the same office, which he continued to fill (with the exception of a brief period) until his death. His administration was remarkably efficient and successful, especially in dealing with the Indians. His "Diary of Occurrences," covering the first year of the colony, was published in 1622. He left a number of religious compositions in verse; and historical prose writings of great value, the most important being his "History of the Plymouth Plantation." He died in Plymouth, Mass., May 9, 1657.
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Bradford Clay
the middle member of the upper division of the Lower Oolites as developed in the west of England. It nearly corresponds in age with the limestones of the Great Oolite, but is generally a pale, grayish clay with litthe calcareous matter, though inclosing bands of impure limestone. BRADFORD-ON-AVON, VON, or GREAT BRADFORD, an ancient town of Eng- 28 miles N. W. of Salisbury, on the banks land, in Wiltshire, beautifully situated of the lower Avon, with manufactures of woolen cloth.
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Bradford, William
William (1590-1657), a prominent Pilgrim father. He was born in Yorkshire, England, 1590, and died at Plymouth, May 9, 1657. He was one of the original company that set sail on the Mayflower. He signed the famous compact made in its cabin. After Carver's death Bradford was elected governor of the colony, a position which he filled with the exception of a short interval until the time of his death. He was a man of native dignity and ability. In 1622 Canonicus, the sachem of the Narragansetts, sent him a bundle of arrows tied with the skin of a snake. Bradford, nothing daunted, stuffed the skin with powder and bullets and sent it back again. He wrote a History of the Plymouth Plantation from the formation of the organization in 1602 to 1647. The manuscript was discovered in England in 1858, and in 1898 it was presented to the state of Massachusetts, where it rests among the valued archives of the commonwealth. It has been suggested that the family name has been derived from the city of Bradford in Yorkshire, now a prosperous manufacturing city of 280,000 people. See Plymouth 2026 Editor's Note: Bradford wrote the book that gives us the Pilgrims: Of Plymouth Plantation is the primary source for the Mayflower voyage and the harvest feast remembered as the first Thanksgiving. The manuscript vanished during the Revolution, resurfaced in a London bishop's library, and was finally returned to Massachusetts in 1897. (Ed: BR 2026-07-06)
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Bradlaugh
CHARLES, an English reformer, born in London, Sept. 26, 1833. He became a street orator when 14 or 15 years old, and his atheistic opinions date from the same period. Expelled from home on this account, he supported himself in various ways. He edited a journal called the "Investigator" in 1858, and a year later became edi editor of the "National Reformer." In 1873 he visited the United States and delivered lectures in the prominent cities. He was elected to Parliament for Northampton, in 1880, but for refusing to take the oath he was expelled from the House of Com- He again appealed to his conmons. stituents in 1882, and was re-elected by a small majority, but was not allowed to take his seat. In 1885, no opposition being raised to his taking the oath, he took his seat in Parliament. He died Jan. 30, 1891.
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Bradley
WILLIAM O'CONNELL, thirty-second Governor of Kentucky (1895-1899); born near Lancaster, Ky., March 18, 1847. During the Civil War he twice enlisted in the Federal army, but was twice discharged on account of his youth. Finally settling down to the study of the law, he was admitted to practice at the age of eighteen by a special act of the Legislature. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Garrard county in 1870. In the Republican National convention of 1884 he opposed the contemplated curtailment of Southern representation in national conventions. He was elected the first Republican Governor of his State in 1895, and was elected to the United States Senate in 1909. He died in 1914.
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Bradshaw
JOHN, an English Puritan, who was President of the High Court of Justice which tried and condemned King Charles I., born in Cheshire, in 1586. In 1649, he was Chief Justice of Chester, and when the trial of the King was determined upon, Bradshaw was chosen to preside. His deportment on the trial was lofty and unbending, and everything was done to give weight and dignity to this unexampled tribunal. On Cromwell's accession to the protectorate, he was deprived of his judgeship, but, on the restoration of the Long Parliament, was elected President of the Council of State. Bradshaw died in 1659, and on his death bed asserted that, if the King were to be tried and condemned again, he would be the first to agree to it. Bradshaw was magnificently buried in Westminster Abbey, whence, after the Restoration, his body was ejected as being that of a regicide, and hanged on a gibbet at Tyburn, with those of Cromwell and Ireton.
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