Walter H. Bradish papers, 1862-1906 1862-1906

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Walter H. Bradish papers, 1862-1906 1862-1906

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18106

Walter H. Bradish (1848-1906) was an executive of the Springfield (Illinois) Woolen Mills. His papers chiefly of family correspondence, 1862-1906, and his genealogical research files on the Bradish, Coventry, and related families. Included is a typescript copy of the diary, ca. 1785-1830, of his ancestor, Alexander Coventry, a Scot who emigrated to America in 1785, which includes a description of his trip.

4.5 linear feet; 10 boxes

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6311903

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Coventry family

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Coventry, Alexander, 1766-1831

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Alexander Coventry was a Scot who immigrated to America in 1785. From the description of Alexander Coventry diary, 19??. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 496822282 A physician who emigrated from Scotland in 1788. Coventry later settled in upstate New York and died in Utica, N.Y. in 1831. From the description of Diary, 1782-1831. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145406871 ...

Bradish family

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New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection

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Bradish, Walter H

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Walter Horace Bradish was born on April 24, 1848, in New York, the son of Horace Clark Bradish and Elizabeth Coventry (Wade) Bradish. His two siblings were a younger brother Charles and a sister Mary Libbie. His mother died when he was quite young, and his father remarried and had two daughters from his second marriage, Nellie and Ella. By 1875, Bradish had moved to Springfield, Illinois, the place that would become his permanent home. On May 3, 1876, he married Mary Ali...