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He was a good citizen and gave much time and reflection to public 

 questions ; and his course was always a thoughtful and independent 

 one. Although supporting the "Law and Order" side at the time of 

 the Dorr rebellion in Rhode Island, he was persuaded of the injustice 

 and bad policy of many of the steps that were taken by the victorious 

 party, and courageously opposed them by tongue and pen. To the 

 last, he struggled earnestly to remove from the Constitution of Rhode 

 Island certain features which seemed to him inexpedient and unjust ; 

 and it was in the course of this controversy that he was led to a care- 

 ful study of the methods of making and changing the constitutions of 

 our States, which resulted in a series of newspaper articles printed at 

 Providence, and afterwards embodied in a leai'ned and very valuable, 

 although somewhat ill-constructed pamphlet. The main conclusions 

 arrived at by Chief Justice Bradley were not welcomed by the judges of 

 the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, whose opinion he controverted, or 

 by the prevailing political party there, and he was answered by Chief 

 Justice Durfee of that State ; but those conclusions are well worthy of 

 attention. They have the support of many eminent persons, and among 

 others of Jameson, the author of the principal treatise on the subject 

 of " Constitutional Conventions." 



Chief Justice Bradley died at the Buckingham Hotel, in the city of 

 New York, April 29, 1888. Although successful in business and for- 

 tunate and happy in many of the aspects of his life, he had much more 

 than the usual share of domestic sorrow that falls to man's lot. He 

 was thrice married, and each time happily ; yet he survived for thirteen 

 years the last of his wives. The loss of all his daughters in their 

 infancy was a sad blow to a man of a nature singularly affectionate and 

 sensitive. Two sons, also, the oldest and the youngest, who had grown 

 to be men, died before him. Two sons survive him, Charles Bradley 

 of Providence, and George Lothrop Bradley of Washington. He left 

 a handsome property, but made no will. During all the later part of his 

 life he was an attendant at the Episcopal Church. A portrait of him 

 by Herkomer taken a few years before his death is in the possession of 



his son George. 



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JOHN DEAN. 



John Dean, the son of William and Lydia Dean, was born at Salem, 

 Mass., December 21, 1831. He was educated in private schools, and 

 did not go to college, but went abroad for a year or two in 1850. He 

 studied chemistry with Professor Horsford, in the Harvard Scientific 



