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EMAIL US		 bullet Dwight Blachly BRADLEY Photo was born on 15 Oct 1852 in Bangkok, Siam. He died on 3 Sep 1889 in Northboro, Massachusetts. Parents: Dan Beach BRADLEY D.D. and Sarah BLACHLY.

He was married to Annie E. Davis on 5 Oct 1878 in Hong Kong. Children were: Clarence Dan BRADLEY, Howard Dwight BRADLEY, Arthur Eugene BRADLEY.

bullet Dwight Culver BRADLEY Ph. D. Parents: Dr. William Lee BRADLEY and Paula Ann Elliot.

bullet Dwight Jaques BRADLEY was born on 16 Dec 1889 in Yankton, South Dakota. He died in 1957 in New York. Parents: Dan Freeman BRADLEY and Lillian Josephine Jaques.

He was married to Kathryn Lee Culver. Children were: Dr. William Lee BRADLEY, Margaret Day BRADLEY .

bullet Elizabeth Bowen (Bronwen) BRADLEY Parents: David John BRADLEY and Elizabeth Bancroft McLane.

bullet Emilie Jane BRADLEY was born on 26 Nov 1836 in Bangkok, Siam. She died on 27 Jul 1848 in Oberlin, Ohio. Parents: Dan Beach BRADLEY D.D. and Emelie Royce.

bullet Esther BRADLEY was born on 3 Jul 1762. She died in 1832. Parents: Jabez BRADLEY and Esther BEACH.

bullet Eunice BRADLEY was born on 17 Nov 1805. Parents: Hon. Dan BRADLEY and Nancy Rose.

bullet Francis Remple BRADLEY was born in 1976. Parents: Charles Crane BRADLEY Jr. and Susannah Louise Remple .

bullet Hannah BRADLEY was born on 21 Dec 1758. She died in 1786. She was the mother of Mrs. Tillotson and Mrs. Chloe Bradley. Parents: Jabez BRADLEY and Esther BEACH.

bullet Harold Cornelius BRADLEY Photo was born on 25 Nov 1878 in Oakland, California. He died on 5 Jan 1976 in Berkeley, California. University of Wisconsin archives: "Professor Harold Cornelius Bradley was a "champion of the student community," according to UW-Madison's history books, and was a well-respected member of the faculty. He was wealthy of both spirit and finances-contributing actively to the life of undergraduate students and to Medical education. The Bradley Learning Community could not have been named for a better person: Bradley was an early and strong advocate for faculty and student out-of-class interaction, being one of the founders and designers of Hoofers, University Health Services, the Lakeshore Residence Halls, and the Memorial Union's student governance system.
Born in California in 1878, Professor Bradley came to the University of Wisconsin as a junior professor of biochemistry and physiology in 1906, having just received his doctorate in physiological chemistry from Yale. Then President Charles Van Hise and the founding Dean of the Medical School, Charles R. Bardeen, hired Bradley as one of a team of three faculty to develop a true medical education at the university. In 1907, Professor Bradley initiated instruction in physiology and physiological chemistry. Physiological chemistry became an independent department in 1921 and was headed by Bradley until 1947. He was extremely outgoing, forthright, and personable, suiting him well to take leadership on campus and in his scientific organizations. (One UW-Madison history book remarked that a testament to his leadership ability was that he garnered local and national recognition for his relatively small department in the shadow of a much stronger and extremely successful biochemistry department in the College of Agriculture.) Some aspects of Bradley's out-of-class student-faculty interaction could only have occurred when they did: within two years of coming to Madison, Professor Bradley met, fell in love with, and married an undergraduate in her junior year. Mary Josephine Crane became an accomplished organizer and philanthropist in her own right; the fact that she was completely deaf from age two did not appear to slow her down. The bride's father, wealthy Chicago industrialist Charles Crane, was a personal friend of Chicago architect Louis Sullivan, then at the end of his career. Crane hired Sullivan to design and build a house for the newlyweds, to occupy all of block 19 of a fancy new western suburb of Madison. This house is the huge and now famous Bradley house in University Heights (its current address is 106 N. Prospect Ave.) The Bradley's first child, Mary Cornelius, was born in 1909. Seven other children, all boys, were to follow.
Tragedy struck the Bradley family when 6 1/2 year-old Mary contracted spinal meningitis and pneumonia and died in January 1916. Their house clearly contained too many memories for them: in the following 8 months, the Bradleys began selling off the parts of their land not occupied by their house, and in September 1917, they sold the house and the four lots on which it stood to the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity (now called the Sigma Phi Society) for $30,000. As another means to cope with Mary's death, the Bradleys donated $50,000 towards the construction of a memorial hospital to research childhood diseases. The Mary Cornelius Bradley Memorial Hospital still stands today, facing Linden Drive.
Because of his outgoing personality, his strong connection and commitment to undergraduates, and his reputation for saying exactly what was on his mind, Professor Bradley was an effective advocate both for students and with administrators. He envisioned faculty-student interactions that were based on healthy and responsible extracurricular student-focused activities. Professor Bradley had a hand in shaping many of the major student life programs on campus that we now take for granted:
After a 1908 outbreak of typhoid on campus that killed several students, Bradley took up the charge to bring a student health service to campus-a health facility that was not only easily accessible to university students, but that would be tailored specifically to their needs. The University Health Services opened in 1910.
Bradley was an avid skier and outdoors enthusiast, and often took students with him to ski in orthern Wisconsin. On one such trip that included then President Glen Frank, Bradley convinced Frank that these outdoor activities should be institutionalized by the university-they were exactly what promoted faculty-student relationships based on mutual interests and responsibility. In 1926, the Hoofers Outing Club was formed.
Professor Bradley was appointed to the 1932 Brown Commission, which studied the growing professional and commercial character of intercollegiate sports. What was specifically a problem at the time was "the relation of intercollegiate athletics to the educational activities and policies of the University and the proper balance to be maintained between the same." The Brown Commission report became a blueprint for UW-Madison athletics for the next 20 years.
President Frank and Professor Bradley shared a vision of student life "integrated" into the values of an undergraduate education. He named Bradley chair of a broad-based committee, whose forty members included alumni as well as faculty, students and administrators, to plan for the governance of the Memorial when it was to open in 1928. Two important issues were to be taken up by this committee: the inclusion of women in the Union activities (up to that point, women were excluded from student unions across the country), and the extent to which students should control the Union's programming and management. Including women fully in Union activities and programming proved to be a relatively easy issue compared to the much more contentious one to determine the role of student governance. But, as Chair of the committee, Bradley's vision to develop opportunities for student leadership and responsibility won out. On May 16, 1928, Professor Bradley presided over a ceremony transferring control of union affairs to a new student-dominated Union Council. As reported by the Daily Cardinal at that time, this was "an unparalleled advance in student self-government at Wisconsin and nationally."
Professor Bradley played a key role in the development of our lakeshore residence hall system, and led the way to create the innovative house fellow system that is now the norm across the country. In 1922, new dormitories were to be constructed on the lakeshore area of campus, the first student residences to be built in almost 40 years. The regents appointed Bradley to a three-member Dormitories Committee to oversee the physical planning as well as the student programming that these structures would contain.
In the words of the Committee, dormitories "should make student living conditions less costly, more comfortable, more thoroughly decent ... lessen social distinctions in student society ... and help to develop a vigorous and healthy morale." The structures themselves should be built to best promote these ideals, and so the Committee recommended "entry-quadrangle type buildings, each containing several separate structures grouped to enclose a central court, with a separate door for each building of a varied and noninstitutional character. The buildings should be divided into houses ... [each with] a common room to help promote the social unity of the house." These open-quadrangle style dormitories opened as Tripp and Adams Halls in 1926. They were meant to provide a "neighborhood feel" to student living.
Bradley championed the idea that older students, house fellows, should live in the undergraduate houses to provide leadership and peer counseling and to serve as role models to foster well-rounded social and intellectual interests. Bradley fought to have house fellow selection and training "professionalized"-it was to be made uniform across campus, the selection and training was to be done by professionals within the housing system, and house fellows were to be paid a wage commensurate with their duties.
Building on his success as a member of the Dormitories Committee, President Frank appointed Bradley to the All University Commission, to study "the problems of the articulation of the University in its several parts;" its charge being an early incarnation of what we now call "integrative learning"-the blurring of the boundaries between in-class and out-of-class learning and experiences. One program that occupied the Commission was the creation and overseeing of Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College. The "Ex College" had a storied and contentious life. It lasted only 5 years, from 1927 to 1932, but its legacy spread across the country and to this day in the Bradley Learning Community.
Professor Bradley continued his advocacy on behalf of an integrated student life. He was on the Dormitories Committee when the Kronshage houses were built in the late 1930s, and left this committee only as residence halls began to be built as high rises. The Kronshage buildings expanded the vision of university houses providing a comprehensive and active neighborhood for students. By the early 1940's these buildings contained a barbershop, a nonprofit food co-op, a library, and a music room. Students began a newspaper and a radio station, and the dorms themselves were administered, fashioned after Tripp and Adams, by a student-run government. These buildings, like Tripp and Adams before them, embodied the student-driven, active and vibrant neighborhood that Bradley envisioned.
Harold C. Bradley retired from the university in 1949, and died in 1976. By then his vision of a university providing rich opportunities for student leadership and responsibility was largely realized. The programs that he helped create were so much a part of student life that UW-Madison is unimaginable without them. In 1976, the regents honored Professor Bradley's contributions to the university by giving his name to one of the lakeshore residence halls. That the Bradley Learning Community was founded in his hall twenty years later would have made him very proud.
--Aaron M. Brower, Ph.D. (Aaron Brower is a Professor of Social Work and Integrated Liberal Studies, and one of the founding Faculty Fellows in the Bradley Learning Community.)"

From The Nordic Voice: "The Bradley family truly represents three generations of mountaineers and environmentalists to whom we should look for inspiration. Cornelius Bradley was a personal friend and mountaineering companion to John Muir and a charter member of the Sierra Club. Mount Bradley in the Sierra was named for him.
Cornelius' son Harold often joined his father and Muir on summer treks in the Sierra. It is no wonder that Harold fostered a commitment to preservation of our country's wildlands. Upon returning to Berkeley after retirement, Harold put in two hitches as President of the Sierra Club. A small grove of coastal redwoods, the H.C. Bradley Grove, honors his lifetime commitment to our national parks and our wild areas.
Harold and Josephine Bradley raised seven sons who followed in the Bradley traditions. Harold and his sons were instrumental in the construction of the Josephine Bradley Ski Hut; they supplied both money and labor. It was the final link in the Sierra Club chain of ski huts between Highway 89 and Highway 50.
Interesting is the fact that in 1922 Harold Bradley predicted not only the loss of untouched lands, but also the coming of the ski hut system. In the last paragraph of an article in the Sierra Bulletin in 1922 (No. 11) he wrote: "It will not be long, I think, before the Sierra Club will route its winter trips, from cabin to cabin through the snows, as it now does in summer excursions, making possible, for a few enthusiasts at least, that return to the untouched primitive world which in summer grows each year more difficult to find."
If you would like a copy of his article "Across the Sierra Nevada on Skis" send a self-addressed, stamped envelop to the Nordic Voice, P.O. Box 1211, Livermore, CA 94551." Parents: Cornelius Beach BRADLEY and Mary Sarepta Commings.

He was married to Mary Josephine Crane on 8 Jul 1908 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Children were: Mary Cornelia BRADLEY, Charles Crane BRADLEY, Harold Cornelius BRADLEY Jr., David John BRADLEY, Stephen Joseph BRADLEY, Joseph Crane BRADLEY, Richard Crane BRADLEY, William Crane BRADLEY .

He was married to Ruth Aiken in 1952.

bullet Harold Cornelius BRADLEY Jr. was born on 8 Apr 1913 in Chicago, Illinois. He died in 1969 in California. Died while mountain climbing in the summer. Parents: Harold Cornelius BRADLEY and Mary Josephine Crane.

He was married to Frances Scott.

bullet Harriet BRADLEY was born on 7 May 1842 in Bangkok, Siam. She died on 30 Dec 1842 in Bangkok, Siam. Harriet died of the Smallpox. Parents: Dan Beach BRADLEY D.D. and Emelie Royce.

bullet Harriet BRADLEY was born on 3 Mar 1793 in Whitestown, New York. She died on 4 Feb 1824. Parents: Hon. Dan BRADLEY and Eunice BEACH.

bullet Helen BRADLEY was born on 12 Jun 1886 in Steubinville, Ohio. She died on 12 Nov 1892 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Died of diphtheria. Parents: Dan Freeman BRADLEY and Lillian Josephine Jaques .

bullet Helen Gibson BRADLEY was born on 26 Aug 1932. Parents: Robert Gamble BRADLEY and Mabel Gibson.

bullet Helen L. BRADLEY Parents: Richard Crane BRADLEY and Dorothy Holden.

She was married to Hugo Teave. Children were: Mahani Teave, Teamai Teave.

bullet Howard Dwight BRADLEY was born on 10 Jun 1882 in Bangkok, Siam. Name changed in 1889 to Dwight Blachly Bradley. Name and birthdate from Dan Beach Bradley's bible. Parents: Dwight Blachly BRADLEY and Annie E. Davis.

bullet Irene Bell BRADLEY Photo was born on 19 May 1860 in Bangkok, Siam. She died on 14 Jan 1943 in Bangkok, Siam. Unmarried. Irene kept every letter written to her by her sister Dellie, but never responded once. Parents: Dan Beach BRADLEY D.D. and Sarah BLACHLY.

bullet Isaac BRADLEY was born on 19 Jan 1817. Parents: Hon. Dan BRADLEY and Nancy Rose.

bullet Jabez BRADLEY was born on 13 Oct 1733. He died in 1793. Died suddenly by the rupture of a blood vessel. He resided at in Hamden, Connecticut. Parents: Dea. Daniel Bradley and Abigail PUNCHARD.

He was married to Esther BEACH in 1754. Children were: Job BRADLEY, Mehitable BRADLEY, Hannah BRADLEY, Sarah BRADLEY, Esther BRADLEY, Jabez BRADLEY, Hon. Dan BRADLEY, Lois BRADLEY, Sue BRADLEY.

bullet Jabez BRADLEY was born on 16 Aug 1765. He died on 20 Feb 1817. Parents: Jabez BRADLEY and Esther BEACH.

bullet Jacob David BRADLEY was born on 22 Feb 2001. Parents: Richard Kari BRADLEY and Gabrielle Malena.

bullet James Richard BRADLEY Parents: Dr. William Lee BRADLEY and Paula Ann Elliot.

bullet James Watrous BRADLEY Parents: Joseph Crane BRADLEY and Katharine Tryon.

bullet Job BRADLEY was born on 24 Aug 1755. He died on 22 Jun 1767. Died by drowning. Parents: Jabez BRADLEY and Esther BEACH.

bullet Joseph BRADLEY Parents: Joseph Crane BRADLEY and Josephine Trumbauer.

bullet Joseph Crane BRADLEY "Joe is still alive but in failing health. He had some sort of stroke in mid-life that definitely changed his life." [Markus Bradley letter, 2002] Parents: Harold Cornelius BRADLEY and Mary Josephine Crane.

He was married to Josephine Trumbauer. Children were: Joseph BRADLEY .

He was married to Katharine Tryon. Children were: James Watrous BRADLEY, Margaret BRADLEY.

bullet Josephine Crane BRADLEY Parents: Richard Crane BRADLEY and Dorothy Holden.

She was married to Laurence S. Lopez. Children were: Angelique M. Lopez , Alejandro U. Lopez, Genevieve A. Lopez, Amber E. Lopez, Roman C. Lopez.

bullet Josephine McLane (Wendy) BRADLEY Parents: David John BRADLEY and Elizabeth Bancroft McLane.

She was married to Robert Morgan.

bullet Kathy BRADLEY Parents: Stephen Joseph BRADLEY and Anne Hurlburt.

bullet Kim McLane BRADLEY Parents: David John BRADLEY and Elizabeth Bancroft McLane.

bullet Lois BRADLEY was born on 12 Feb 1769. She died on 18 May 1821. Parents: Jabez BRADLEY and Esther BEACH.

bullet Lynn BRADLEY Parents: Stephen Joseph BRADLEY and Anne Hurlburt.

She was married to Michael Grace. Children were: Lisa Grace, Eben Grace, Michael Grace Jr..

She was married to Aldo Carl Leopold.

bullet Maija Matilda BRADLEY was born on 2 Aug 1998. Parents: Markas BRADLEY and Laura White.

bullet Margaret BRADLEY Parents: Joseph Crane BRADLEY and Katharine Tryon.

She was married to Mark Gesner Timmerman on 13 Jun 1981. Children were: Katharine Timmerman, Grace Timmerman.

bullet Margaret Day BRADLEY was born on 6 Sep 1918 in Berkeley, California. Parents: Dwight Jaques BRADLEY and Kathryn Lee Culver .

She was married to Morris Fairchild Arnold. Children were: William Morris Arnold, Jaquiline Fairchild Arnold.

bullet Mark William BRADLEY Parents: William Crane BRADLEY and Alice Louise Babcock.

bullet Markas BRADLEY Parents: David McLane (Darby) BRADLEY and Liisa Muukari.

He was married to Laura White. Children were: Maija Matilda BRADLEY , Charlie Stephenson BRADLEY.

bullet Mary Adelle BRADLEY(15) Photo was born on 30 Nov 1854 in Bangkok, Siam. She died on 5 May 1926 in Tacoma Park, Maryland. From Harold Bradley's introduction to Ruth Bradley's "Dellie" :
"Dellie was my aunt, a frail woman with an iron will who gave birth to, and reared her sons in pioneer Colorado. Her life was as fascinating as fiction and as remarkable as only the truth can be. Her story might have been called "A Woman in Four Worlds" or "Through Four Periods of Life." There is a lovely belief among some Buddhists in parts of Asia that death will not come to a person until his special lotus opens. The deceased will then sit on his flower as Buddha is often portrayed. Surely no lotus ever waited during a more unusual life than my aunt's. Mary Adelle Bradley's world began in Bangkok, Siam, where she was born in 1854. Her missionary family was not wealthy, but lack of comforts was unknown., and Siamese servants did all the housework. Contacts were only with the foreign community and the Royal Siamese families. The intellectual atmosphere was not too changed when my aunt was sent to Oberlin College in 1875. Aunt Dellie's second world began in 1877 when she married her cousin, Andrew Trew Blachly, after a few weeks' acquaintance. For the next sixteen years, frequent moves, the birth of eight boys, recurring ill health, and harsh living conditions--with near starvation at times were made bearable because of her utter devotion to, and faith in her husband and her belief that God made no mistakes in what he inflicted on His Children. That period ended in 1893. Who can decide whether that era or the one to follow and which lasted until 1915 revealed more strongly the character of this extraordinary woman? Was it the legacy of indomnitability and sense of duty learned at home, or was it supreme mother love that enabled her to keep her family together and ultimately to send each boy off to earn his own college education? Those things accomplished, Aunt Dellie entered the briefest of her worlds-nine years of what she considered undeserved comfort and luxury. In our present age of character softening influences, changing moral values, of Aid to Dependent Children and Public Assistance, it would seem worthwhile to read of a woman who lived by principles which should be as valid now as when Aunt Dellie applied them. As a relative said, "If Dellie's story is not written so that those of us who knew of such women may read it, the next generation will never believe its truth but consider it pure imagination." Because Bradleys have a family tradition of saving every piece of correspondence, it would be hard to conceive of an individual's life more fully documented and one more thoroughly discussed among relatives than that of Mary Adelle Bradley Blachly. Beginning at the time of her marriage and continuing for more than forty years, most letters referred to her as "poor Dellie" and that is what Lou would have titled his book. But my wife has found a radiance and a richness in Aunt Dellie's life which will not permit her to use poor. I agree that she was always simply DELLIE."
Parents: Dan Beach BRADLEY D.D. and Sarah BLACHLY.

She was married to Andrew Trew BLACHLY on 5 Sep 1877 in Kansas City, Missouri. Children were: Dr. Arthur Trew BLACHLY, Frederick Frank BLACHLY , Clarence Dan BLACHLY, Howard Dwight BLACHLY, William Harold BLACHLY, Ralph Reamer BLACHLY, Louis Bradley Blachly, Edward Hugh BLACHLY.

bullet Mary Cornelia BRADLEY was born on 2 May 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. She died in 1916 in Chicago, Illinois. Parents: Harold Cornelius BRADLEY and Mary Josephine Crane.

bullet Mehitable BRADLEY was born on 3 Mar 1757. She died after 1834. Parents: Jabez BRADLEY and Esther BEACH.

bullet Melanie BRADLEY Parents: William Crane BRADLEY and Alice Louise Babcock.

bullet Menaka Sondhi BRADLEY Parents: Daniel Charles BRADLEY and Radhika Sondhi.

bullet Merideth BRADLEY Parents: William Crane BRADLEY and Mary Virginia Biart.

bullet Mrs. William Bradley died in 1634.

Children were: William BRADLEY.

bulletNancy BRADLEY was born on 21 Jul 1791 in Cheshire. Parents: Hon. Dan BRADLEY and Eunice BEACH.

bullet Paul William BRADLEY Parents: Dr. William Lee BRADLEY and Paula Ann Elliot.

bullet Richard Crane BRADLEY See note for Richard's Grandfather, Cornelius Bradley. Parents: Harold Cornelius BRADLEY and Mary Josephine Crane.

He was married to Dorothy Holden. Children were: Richard Crane BRADLEY Jr. , Helen L. BRADLEY, Josephine Crane BRADLEY, David H. BRADLEY.

bullet Richard Crane BRADLEY Jr. Parents: Richard Crane BRADLEY and Dorothy Holden.

bullet Richard Kari BRADLEY Parents: David McLane (Darby) BRADLEY and Liisa Muukari.

He was married to Gabrielle Malena. Resided Helena, Montana, 2002. Children were: Simon Louis BRADLEY, Jacob David BRADLEY.

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