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From: Robert Bradford <>
Subject: [BRADFORD-L] Re: BRADFORD-D Digest V99 #101
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:35:21 -0400

Thanks for the snippet about Mary Davidson Bradford. It is possible she may have married a descendant of Josiah Bradford of
Canterbury, Connecticut. I've a copy of a letter written to my Great-grandfather, William Josiah Bradford, by an S. S.
Bradford from Hammond, St. Croix county, WI in Feb 1866- this is near Menominee. While the Wisconsin Bradfords would not be
ancestors of mine, they are of interest to me - their descendants are probably 5th cousins.
Interestingly, my grandmother on my mother's side, who is not at all related to any Bradfords, was a rural schoolteacher who
grew up in St. Croix county Wisconsin.

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> Midwest Pioneers: Memoirs of Mary Bradford
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> Born in the farming community of Paris, Kenosha County, in 1856, Mary
> Davison Bradford was forced by her father's ill health to begin teaching at
> the age of sixteen--before she had finished high school. She continued to
> work actively as an educator until 1922. Bradford describes how she taught
> in small rural schools, in the expanding Kenosha system, and at centers of
> educational experimentation such as Central State Teachers College at
> Stevens Point and the Stout Training School at Menomonie. Eventually
> appointed superintendent of schools in Kenosha, Bradford instituted
> kindergarten, vocational training programs, breakfast programs for needy
> children, and politically independent procurement and hiring processes. She
> also advocated courses in citizenship and health education. Bradford's
> autobiography chronicles the development of Wisconsin's public school
> system in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wisconsin had
> a strong commitment to primary, secondary, and higher public education in
> this era, and Bradford's work reflects at the grassroots level many of the
> pedagogic reforms then sweeping the country.
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> Bibliography: Library of Congress. "Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books
> from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910." [Database online]
> Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Bradford, Mary Davison. "Memoirs of
> Mary Davidson Bradford." Evansville, WI: Antes Press, 1932.
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