Mary Cornelia Bradley was born to Dr. Harold Cornelius Bradley, a biochemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin and his wife, Mary Josephine (Crane) Bradley, of the renowned Chicago industrialist Crane family. Stricken with measles at age 6, Mary died in 1916 from meningitis shortly before her seventh birthday.
Deeply heartbroken by the death of their firstborn child and only daughter (eight sons were born after Mary's death), the Bradleys founded a pediatric research and teaching hospital built in connection with the UW Medical School. This hospital opened in 1920 as the Mary Cornelia Bradley Hospital for the Study of Children's Diseases. After several moves and expansions over the next nine decades, it emerged in 2007 as the American Family Children's Hospital. At the same time, the Mary Cornelia Bradley Society was founded to recognize philanthropy and encourage excellence at the hospital.
Mary's legacy lives on, saving the lives of other children.
Deeply heartbroken by the death of their firstborn child and only daughter (eight sons were born after Mary's death), the Bradleys founded a pediatric research and teaching hospital built in connection with the UW Medical School. This hospital opened in 1920 as the Mary Cornelia Bradley Hospital for the Study of Children's Diseases. After several moves and expansions over the next nine decades, it emerged in 2007 as the American Family Children's Hospital. At the same time, the Mary Cornelia Bradley Society was founded to recognize philanthropy and encourage excellence at the hospital.
Mary's legacy lives on, saving the lives of other children.
Mary Cornelia Bradley was born to Dr. Harold Cornelius Bradley, a biochemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin and his wife, Mary Josephine (Crane) Bradley, of the renowned Chicago industrialist Crane family. Stricken with measles at age 6, Mary died in 1916 from meningitis shortly before her seventh birthday.
Deeply heartbroken by the death of their firstborn child and only daughter (eight sons were born after Mary's death), the Bradleys founded a pediatric research and teaching hospital built in connection with the UW Medical School. This hospital opened in 1920 as the Mary Cornelia Bradley Hospital for the Study of Children's Diseases. After several moves and expansions over the next nine decades, it emerged in 2007 as the American Family Children's Hospital. At the same time, the Mary Cornelia Bradley Society was founded to recognize philanthropy and encourage excellence at the hospital.
Mary's legacy lives on, saving the lives of other children.
Deeply heartbroken by the death of their firstborn child and only daughter (eight sons were born after Mary's death), the Bradleys founded a pediatric research and teaching hospital built in connection with the UW Medical School. This hospital opened in 1920 as the Mary Cornelia Bradley Hospital for the Study of Children's Diseases. After several moves and expansions over the next nine decades, it emerged in 2007 as the American Family Children's Hospital. At the same time, the Mary Cornelia Bradley Society was founded to recognize philanthropy and encourage excellence at the hospital.
Mary's legacy lives on, saving the lives of other children.
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