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Frank Howe Bradley was born on September 20, 1838 in New Haven, Connecticut and was the son of Abijah and Eliza Collis (Townsend) Bradley.
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Title: First annual report of the Geological Survey of Indiana : made during the year 1869. Author: Frank H Bradley Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP04281400 CollectionID: CTRG03-B253 PublicationDate: 18690101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Letter of transmittal to the Indiana State Board of Agriculture, p. 3, dated Jan. 1, 1870, and signed: E.T. Cox. Includes index. Collation: 240 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm
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Frank Howe Bradley was born on September 20, 1838 in New Haven, Connecticut and was the son of Abijah and Eliza Collis (Townsend) Bradley.
Frank Bradley graduated from Yale College in 1863. He later took special courses in natural history in the Sheffield Scientific School.
Bradley's tastes early took a geological trend, so after graduation he spent more than a year at Panama and vicinity where he made large collections of coral and other zoological materials. During 1867 he was assistant geologist on the survey of Illinois under J. G. Norwood and in 1869 served likewise on the survey of Indiana under Edward Travers Cox. A paper prepared by him on the Carboniferous rocks of Vermillion County was commented upon by Dana as a "valuable chapter" in the report of that year.
In 1872 he became a member of the National Survey under F. V. Hayden and was assigned to the Snake River division in Idaho.
From 1869 to 1875 he held the chair of geology and mineralogy in the University of Tennessee, and while there made a detailed section of the unaltered Lower Silurian formations and the beds of crystalline rocks to the east, publishing his results under the caption "On the Silurian Age of the Southern Appalachians" in the American Journal of Science for 1876. The same year he also published a small geological map of the United States.
He eventually gave up his position at Knoxville to undertake private mining ventures in the hope of securing a competence sufficient to allow him to follow his scientific calling untrammelled by financial difficulties. It was while thus engaged that he met his tragic fate, being killed by the caving in of a gold mine near Nacoochee, Georgia, in which he was at work.
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Bradley was described as a man of profound zeal for science, of exactness in observation, of great energy, and of independent judgment and purpose.
His lines of action were laid down by his sense of what was just and once fixed there was no swerving. He was often accused of obstinacy, and in his work met with more opposition or friction than would otherwise have been the case.
Frank Bradley was tall, of erect figure, neat in dress, but after a fashion dictated by his work and not by prevalent modes, in this indicating his independence of character.
Frank Bradley was married in 1867 to Sarah M. Bolles of New Haven by whom he had two children, a daughter and an infant son that died on the day of his own death.