N. L. Bradley Mausoleum, 1891
MakerMade by
H. Wales Lines Company
American, 1864 - 1983
Date1891
MediumPhotography; albumen on paper in cardboard album covers
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 7 1/4 x 9 1/4in. (18.4 x 23.5cm)
Other (overall height x width): 8 1/4 x 11 1/2in. (21 x 29.2cm)
Other (overall height x width): 8 1/4 x 11 1/2in. (21 x 29.2cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
DescriptionPhotograph of the Bradley masoleum in Meriden, Connecticut. Two Ionic columns on either side of entrance. No other grave sites visible in background, just open land.
Object number2015.149.1.55
InscribedRecto, handwritten in black ink: "N. L. Bradley - Mausoleum 1891"NotesFrom: An Historic Record and Pictorial Description of the Town of Meriden, Connecticut: And Men who Have Made It... A Century of Meriden "The Silver City." (p. 70) “Nathaniel L. Bradley was the treasurer and a chief stockholder of the Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company. He was born in Cheshire on December 27, 1829, to Levi and Abigail Ann (Atwater) Bradley. He left school at fifteen to work as a clerk for E. B. M. Hughes, a hardware merchant in New Haven. He went back home after a year to help with the family farm.
He was a stockholder and one of the directors of the first street railway company in Meriden. He was director of the First National Bank; the City Savings Bank; the Meriden Trust & Safe Deposit Co.; the Meriden Republican Publishing Company; J. D. Bergen Co.; and others. He was an alderman and acting mayor. He was also vice president of the Meriden Fire Insurance Co., a director in the Walnut Grove Cemetery Association, and president of the Meriden hospital. He was president of the Meriden Trotting Park Association.”
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