BRADBURY.
BRADDOUK.
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
