Ammi Ruhamah Bradbury (1810-1899), Free Will Baptist minister and poet, and one of seven children of Samuel and Jane Gurney Bradbury, was born on 3 December 1810 in Minot (now Auburn), Me. He graduated in 1837 and received an A.M. in 1840 from Bowdoin College; attended Bangor Theological Seminary, 1837-1838, and Yale Theological Seminary, 1840-1843; and received a D.D. from West Virginia College in 1890. Bradbury became an ordained minister in 1838 and was a pastor in Portsmouth, N.H., and Biddeford, Me. He was also a teacher in Parsonfield, Me., and a principal at Smithville Seminary (later Lapham Institute), in R.I., and at Strafford Seminary in N.H. Bradbury eventually moved to Providence, R.I., where he pursued literary work. He died in Providence on 13 September 1899.
While at Smithville, Bradbury met Caroline Livermore Johnson, (1814-1896) the oldest daughter of Rev. Timothy and Abigail Johnson of Maine. Johnson was the principal of the female department of Smithville Seminary for eight years. They were married by her father on 20 February 1844 in Farmington, Me., and had four children: William Ammi Bradbury (1847-1872); Abby Jane Bradbury (1849-1918); Frederick Whittier Bradbury (1851-1930); and Samuel Johnson Bradbury (1853- ).
From the description of Diary, 1872-1874. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 221324216
