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- He is a successful druggist and worker in reforms, and res. in Boston, Mass.
1860 Census: ME: Penobscot: Bangor, Ward 1:
Benj. F. Bradbury, age 31, druggist, real estate valued at $1000, personal property valued at $2000, born in Maine;
Anna P., age 20, born in Maine;
William B. 9/12, born in Maine;
Margaret Lynch, age 17, domestic, born in Maine.
1870 Census: ME: Penobscot: Bangor City, p. 30:
Bradbury, Benj. F., age 41, apothecary, born in ME, real estate valued at $11,000, personal property valued at $11,000;
Sarah, age 29, keeping house, born in MA;
William, age 10, born in ME;
Annie, age 7, born in ME;
Woodman, age 2, born in ME;
George, age 1, born in ME.
1880 Census MA: Middlesex: Other Townships: Melrose ED#408, p. 44 of 47:
Bradbury, Ben F., age 51, druggist, born in ME, father and mother born in ME;
Sarah W., age 39, wife, keeping house, born in MA, father and mother born in MA;
William B., age 25, son, clerk in store, born in ME, father in ME, mother born in MA;
Woodman, age 12, son, at school, born in ME, father born in ME, mother born in MA;
Geo. G., age 11, son, at school, born in ME, father born in ME, mother born in MA;
Marion E., age 8, daughter, at school, born in ME, father born in ME, mother born in MA;
Grace, age 7, daughter, born in ME, father born in ME, mother born in MA;
Edith, age 2, daughter, born in MA, father born in ME, mother born in MA.
1885 Melrose, Massachusetts Directory:
Benj. F. Bradbury, apothecary, house 92 Main, Wyoming, 443 Wash., B., Melrose;
Edward Bradbury, printer, house Third 242 Wash., B., Melrose;
George G. Bradbury, clerk, bds. 92 Main, 443 Wash., B., Melrose.
1900 Census: MA: Middlesex Cty: Melrose Township, p. 285:
Bradbury, Benj. F, head, born Feb. 1829, age 71, married for 35 years, born in ME, father and mother born in ME, druggist (proprietor);
Sarah H., his wife, born July 1840, age 59, married for 35 years, has had 5 children, 4 still living, born in MA, father and mother born in MA;
Grace L., their daughter, born Mar. 1872, age 27, single, born in ME, father born in ME, mother born in MA, music teacher;
H. Edith, their daughter, born Aug 1877, age 22, single, born in MA, father born in ME, mother born in MA, clerk, publishing house;
Woodman, Sarah H, mother, born Oct 1814, age 85, widow, has had 9 children, 4 still living, born in MA, father and mother born in MA.
Melrose City Directory of 1900:
Bradbury, Alice E. piano teacher 507 Main, bds 24 Whittier
Benjamin F. druggist (637 Washington, B.) h. 296 Main
Caleb B. teller (85 Devonshire B.), h. 24 Whittier
Charles C. painter h. 182 Grove
Charles E. A. plumber, 540 Main, h. 182 Grove
Edward, printer, h. 10 Third.
FROM: Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, by William Richard Cutter:
“Benjamin Franklin Bradbury, son of Benjamin Burbank Bradbury (14), was born in Chesterville, Franklin county. Maine, February 28, 1829. He was educated in the public schools and academy and for one term attended a School of Pharmacy in Philadellphia. Upon his return home he went to work in adrug store in Bangor and learned the business. In 1874 he removed to Melrose, Massachusetts, and established a drug store on the corner of Winter and Washington streets, Boston, where he carried on business for a period of eighteen years. In 1892 he took quarters near Boylston street, and in 1903 removed to the corner of Beach street and Harrison avenue. He retired in 1907. Mr. Bradbury has always been interested in public affairs, especially in those meetings, movements and organizations designed to promote patriotism and to defend from attack the American public school system. For more than twenty years he has been prominent in patriotic movements, and is today as earnest and zealous as ever in this line of activity. In politics he is an independent Republican. In religion he is a Baptist, and attends the
'Fremont Temple, Boston, and is a deacon of the Church Society.
“He married (first) March 31, 1856, Anna M. Pierce, daughter of Samuel Pierce, of Bangor. She died at Bangor, July 28, 1863. He married (second), November 15, 1864, Sarah Horton Woodman, daughter of Deacon Edwin Woodman, of Charlestown; she died October 31, 1905. He married (third) Mrs. Clara A. Beal. Children of Benjamin
F. and Anna M. Bradbury: i. Samuel Pierce born at Bangor, September 7, 1857, died September 10, 1858. 2. William Benjamin, born October 18. 1859, married, July 30, 1883, Bertha Grace Pittsinger, who was born in Keene, New Hampshire, May 9, 185959. Children; i. Edward Benjamin, born at Keene, New Hampshire, died July 18, 1884; ii. William Pittsinger, born in New York City, November 19, 1885; iii. Annie Congdon, born at Mount Vernon. New York. January 9, 1887, died December 15, 1889; iv. Edward Lowell, born October 9, 1890. 3. Ann Pierce, born
May 15, 1863, died at Barre, Massachusetts, June 25, 1871. Children of Benjamin F. and Sarah H. Bradbury : 4. Woodman, born atBangor, April 9, 1866, married Mary E. Farr, of Waterville. Maine, now pastor of Old Cambridge Baptist Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts; one child, Elizabeth F., born Januarv 12, 1890. 3. George Goodwin, born January 7, 1868, died 1886. 6. Marion Elizabeth, born September 5, 1871. married, November 12, 1907, Thomas Wilson Pomeroy. 7. Grace Lowell, born March 26, 1873. Hannah Edith, born at Melrose, August 1,
1877. married June 18, 1903. Albert P. Franklin, Jr.; they have one child, .Sarah Woodman, born July 8, 1906.”
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1829 - 1911 (82 years)
