Isaac Bradford

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Isaac Bradford
17th Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts[1]
In office
January, 1873 – January, 1877
Preceded byHenry Oscar Houghton
Succeeded byFrank Augustus Allen
Personal details
Born(1834-11-15)November 15, 1834[1]
Boston, Massachusetts, US[1]
DiedDecember 19, 1898(1898-12-19) (aged 64)[1]
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseJane Ann Davis
Children2[2]
OccupationMathematician

Isaac Bradford (November 15, 1834 – December 19, 1898) was a Massachusetts mathematician and politician who served as the seventeenth Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Personal life

Bradford was born to Isaac Bradford and Sarah (Beckford) Bradford in Boston on November 15, 1834.[1] He married Jane Ann (Hutchings) Davis in Medford, Massachusetts on April 30, 1862. They had two children, Ellen Hutchings and Isaac Bradford, Jr.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Boston Evening Transcript (December 20, 1898), "DEATH of ISSAC BRADFORD- He Was Four Years Mayor of Cambridge, Served as Chief of Police and Was an Assistant on the National Almanac", The Boston Evening Transcript, Boston, MA, p. 9
  2. ^ Rand, John Clark (1890), One of a thousand: a Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men, Boston, MA: First National Publishing Company, p. 74
  3. ^ Rand, John Clark (1890). One of a Thousand: A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888-'89. pp. 73–74.
Political offices
Preceded by 17th Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
January, 1873 – January, 1877
Succeeded by