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Marriage: Children:
  1. Charles Cooper Bradford: Birth: 29 MAR 1840 in Geneva, Ontario, NY. Death: 22 JUL 1865 in Chattanooga, TN

  2. William Hopkins Bradford: Birth: 23 JUN 1842 in Geneva, Ontario, NY. Death: 29 JUL 1864 in Tampa Bay, FL

  3. Mary Bradford: Birth: 15 APR 1844 in Seneca, Ontario, NY. Death: 14 OCT 1913 in MASS

  4. John Melanthon Bradford: Birth: 09 JUL 1846 in Seneca, Ontario, New York, USA. Death: 09 DEC 1928 in Geneva, Ontario, NY

  5. Elizabeth Bradford: Birth: ABT 1849.

  6. Louisa Bradford: Birth: ABT 1854.


Notes
a. Note:   SOURCE: http://www.bettyfink.com/Deaths1861.htm
  He was an attorney and later, a judge.
  Mary Bradford Crowninshield (Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield)
 Another series author whose life clearly influenced her work was Mary Bradford Crowninshield. Born in New York in April 1844 (not Maine, 1854, as erroneously listed in several reference works), she was the daughter of author Sarah Elizabeth Bradford (nee Sarah Elizabeth Hopkins, 1818-??) and attorney (later, judge) John Melancthon Bradford, Jr. (1813-1860). [1] The eldest daughter and the third of six children, she grew up in a household that included her maternal grandmother (and, at one point, paternal grandmother) and regular exposure to books.
  http://www.readseries.com/auth-bc/crownin-bio.html
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  The following bio is from "Collections on the History of Albany - From its discovery to the present time - Vol 2, pg 77" by J. Munsell, published in NY in 1867. He takes most of his info from obits in the Albany Argus newspaper:
  Feb 1861
  John M. Bradford died at Chicago. He was the son of the late Rev. Dr. Bradford, of this city. He studied his profession in Albany, and was for many years in the practice of law at Geneva, where he established a reputation for talents and integrity, and where he was greatly esteemed. He had been for two years in declining health, and died suddenly from a fusion of water in the chest.
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  Graduated Union College in 1838
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  Information about Mary's parents is from Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, The Descendants of John Wright, of Dedham, Mass. J. F. Trow & Son, 1874: 1096-97, and from James A. McGowan's "Harriet Tubman According to Sarah Bradford," Harriet Tubman Journal (April 2004). McGowan's essay includes not only biographical information about Bradford but also a detailed criticism of both editions of her biography of Tubman, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman and Harriet Tubman, the Moses of her People The latter is also online at Documenting the American South.


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