Show THE LATE JUDGE BRADLEY WHILE the death 04 0 judge joseph P bradley was to be looked for in view of his prolonged illness the announcement jentof of it created no little surprise min mingled aled with feelings of sorrow he was born in berne albany county I 1 new york seventy nine years ago next marci his parents had bad ten other children im bw being baling the eldest and his early field of operations was his father ld farm there was a village school near by and the boy was permitted to attend it three months to in the year but to the mind latent intent upon the acquirement of knowledge limited schooling or no schooling at all cannot operate as a barrier when once the ibe fundamental less lessons we are learned and his lathers fabber s library was the object of his constant ut attention his studious stu clious habits and promptness in every thi g he be undertook gained him finally an opportunity anity to go to college the benefactor in this case being a neighboring clergyman after graduating with honor he taught school for a while and as thousands of others have done studied law in the mean time and after being admitted to the bar in 1889 his success and progress in this new field were rapid and striking though not con as a politician judge bradly was an earnest republican and being made the fifth judge fudge in the noted electoral commission of 1877 thereby holding the balance of power he voted and acted accordingly thus securing the election of president hayes over samuel J tilden the judge was a married man main and leaves a wife and four children |