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Connecticut Society of Hygiene ; and the
Connecticut Historical Society. During
his past seven years in Bristol he has
been actively engaged in numerous committee
conferences on many community
and civic interests.
Mr. Reiche married, June 26, 1912, Anne
Emily Fairbrother, daughter of Lorenzo
D. and Mary (Miller) Fairbrother. Mrs.
Reiche died December 29, 1918. They
have one son, Charles E. (2) Reiche, born
October 13, 1913.
One of the secrets of Mr. Reiche's suc-
cess in his chosen field of work is his
grasp of the personal side, his sympathy,
and his realization of the value of the
encouraging word spoken at the right
moment. The best years of his life are
before him, and with his vigor and mental
acquirements he is richly endowed to
make an honored name for himself.
BRADLEY, George Lothrop,
Man of Affairs.
Arms—Gules a fesse argent between three
boars' heads couped or.
Crest—A boar sable bristled and hoofed or,
gorged with a garland vert.
The name Bradley is of Anglo-Saxon
origin, and is a compound of Brad
(broad) and lea (a field or meadow). It
is local in derivation, and it can be readily
seen that William of the broad lea would
in the evolution of surnames become Wil-
liam Bradley. The earliest mention of
the name in England occurs in the year
1 183, when the Lord High Bishop of Durham
mentions an estate in Wollsingham
which contained three hundred acres, and
another at Bradley of forty acres, held by
Roger de Bradley.
There are numerous townships bearing
the name located in Cheshire, Lincoln-
shire, Derbyshire, Southampton and Staf-
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fordshire, the latter of which counties
contains Bradley estates and townships
of very great extent. In 1437 there is
mention of the Bradleys of Bradley.
Again in 1475 tne will of Sir John Pil-
kington, Knight, of Yorkshire, bequeathed
to his brother Charles a place named
Bradley. There are great and small Bradley
parishes in Suffolk, and Lower and
Upper Bradley in Kildwick, Yorkshire.
John Bradley was Bishop of Shaftsbury
in 1539. In 1578 Alexander Bradley re-
sided in the See of Durham, and about the
same time Cuthbertus Bradley was curate
of Barnarde Castle. Thomas Bradley was
Doctor of Divinity and chaplain to King
Charles I., and afterward prebend of the
Cathedral Church of York and rector of
Ackworth. His son, Savile, was fellow
of Magdalen College, Oxford, and another
son, Thomas, was a merchant in Virginia.
During this period the persecutions and
religious intolerance in England led many
to emigrate to America ; emigration increased
to such an extent that a tax aimed
at curtailing it was levied on all who
left the country. This led many to slip
away by stealth, leaving no record of
their departure. Among the original lists
of emigrants, religious exiles, etc., a number
of Bradleys are mentioned. There
are several distinct branches of the fam-
ily in America tracing their lineage to the
several founders who came to the New
World in the seventeenth century. Few
branches have produced as distinguished
a progeny as the Massachusetts Brad-
leys, of which family the Hon. Charles
Smith Bradley, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Rhode Island, was a
member.
(I) Joseph Bradley, the immigrant ancestor
and founder, was born in London,
England, in 1649, and settled in Haver-
hill, Massachusetts, in 1659. He married,