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Samuel Beach Bradley papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 733

Scope and content

Included among Bradley's papers are materials relating to his student days; notebooks of cures and remedies (1815+); a list of infants delivered (1818-1876); an alphabetically arranged listing of proper names in Dr. Bradley's diaries compiled by Grace Goodell Witty; sermons and religious experiences; fragmentary diaries; an autobiography (44 pp.); genealogical notes; a description of Eaton, New York, with recordings of weather and plant growth (1818); a manuscript speech against abolition and favoring colonization (1840, 44 pp.); a speech for universal education (1843); and an inaugural address given before the Monroe County Medical Society (1843); the constitution of the Parma and Greece Moral Reform Society, a women's organization (1837); a few papers relating to his political activities and clippings with explanatory notes; and a series of letters between Bradley and his son William, a physician in Lockport, Illinois, and later in Evanston (1865-1880).

Dates

  • 1789-1890.

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Physician, New York State Assemblyman. The son of a Congregational minister, Dr. Bradley practiced medicine, pursued an interest in botany, wrote for the MADISON COUNTY ADVERTISER, and was a member of the Freemasons. In 1821 Bradley moved from Madison to Monroe County, New York, and became a member of the State Assembly in 1822.

Extent

.4 cubic feet. (.4 cubic feet.)

Language of Materials

English