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RUSH BRADFORD who was the father of Mrs. C. C. Townsend was born in
Philadelphia in 1813 and was a descendent of William Bradford of
Philadelphia, the first printer in Pennsylvania. He removed to a large
farm he had purchased on Brush Creek in 1836, before coming into New
Brighton. He was in the real estate business on a large scale, to which
his sons William C. and Thomas succeeded at his death in 1884. William C.
and Thomas died respectively in 1887 and 1902, both unmarried. Mrs.
Townsend died in 1900. Thomas was a Democratic member of the Legislature,
1879-1880. Mr. Bradford had been an unsuccessful candidate for Governor
on the Native American Party ticket in 1854. During that campaign he
asserted his principles in part in the New Brighton Record from which the
following is an excerpt: Holding such strong convictions it is not surprising that’ he was at another time a candidate for Lieutenant-Governor upon a Prohibition platform, but was similarly unsuccessful. The Bradford home occupied the site upon which the present Post Office has since been built and the large residence stood within a few feet of, and faced Third Avenue. The Bradfords were Quakers but Benjamin Rush was a Presbyterian. History of New Brighton 1838-1939, published by the Historical Committee of the Centennial, Butler, PA, pages 21-22. More Beaver County History Books Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors. View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file! Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.
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