The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) August 7, 1899 page 7
Mrs. Ellen Knight Bradford, wife of Rev. J.H. Bradford of this city, died yesterday at her home, No. 904 M street northwest, aged a little more than sixty-years. She was born in Ypsilanti, Mich., April 20, 1839. Her mother died and she went to Easthampton, Mass., while yet a child, into the family of H.G. Knight, her uncle, to live and became a pupil of Williston Seminary, which then had a female department. She became an accomplished musician and taught music at Lansingburg, N.Y., in a ladies’ seminary some years.
Chaplain J.H. Bradford, after three years in the army, had taken up home mission work in the west, and after their marriage at the home of her uncle in August, 1865, they went to Hudson, Wis., where he was for a time pastor of the Congregational Church. Later they returned to the east, where for ten years they were engaged in reformatory work in Westboro, Mass., and Middletown, Conn., where they started the Girls’ Industrial School. Their next duty was in charge of the State Primary School at Monson, Mass., where for several years they had a family of more than 700 to look after. They then came to Washington, where they have lived for eighteen years.
Mrs. Bradford was a fluent writer. She wrote mostly for religious papers, and only last week an article of hers appeared in the New York Observer, and one of Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth in the Agriculturist. For some months she was a correspondent of the Congregationalist as “Della Towle,” representing what a young girl saw in Washington.
Among her productions were the song “Over the Line,” published in the Moody and Sankey collections, which has been sung all over the world, and the famous “Ben Hur Tableau,” which was a product of her brain and proved to be a most attractive and successful church entertainment.
Funeral services will be held at her late residence tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. Interment will be at Middletown, Conn., Mrs. Bradford’s husband and four children, two daughters and two sons survive her. - Contributor: Loretta Castaldi (47472615) • [email protected]
Mrs. Ellen Knight Bradford, wife of Rev. J.H. Bradford of this city, died yesterday at her home, No. 904 M street northwest, aged a little more than sixty-years. She was born in Ypsilanti, Mich., April 20, 1839. Her mother died and she went to Easthampton, Mass., while yet a child, into the family of H.G. Knight, her uncle, to live and became a pupil of Williston Seminary, which then had a female department. She became an accomplished musician and taught music at Lansingburg, N.Y., in a ladies’ seminary some years.
Chaplain J.H. Bradford, after three years in the army, had taken up home mission work in the west, and after their marriage at the home of her uncle in August, 1865, they went to Hudson, Wis., where he was for a time pastor of the Congregational Church. Later they returned to the east, where for ten years they were engaged in reformatory work in Westboro, Mass., and Middletown, Conn., where they started the Girls’ Industrial School. Their next duty was in charge of the State Primary School at Monson, Mass., where for several years they had a family of more than 700 to look after. They then came to Washington, where they have lived for eighteen years.
Mrs. Bradford was a fluent writer. She wrote mostly for religious papers, and only last week an article of hers appeared in the New York Observer, and one of Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth in the Agriculturist. For some months she was a correspondent of the Congregationalist as “Della Towle,” representing what a young girl saw in Washington.
Among her productions were the song “Over the Line,” published in the Moody and Sankey collections, which has been sung all over the world, and the famous “Ben Hur Tableau,” which was a product of her brain and proved to be a most attractive and successful church entertainment.
Funeral services will be held at her late residence tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. Interment will be at Middletown, Conn., Mrs. Bradford’s husband and four children, two daughters and two sons survive her. - Contributor: Loretta Castaldi (47472615) • [email protected]
The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) August 7, 1899 page 7
Mrs. Ellen Knight Bradford, wife of Rev. J.H. Bradford of this city, died yesterday at her home, No. 904 M street northwest, aged a little more than sixty-years. She was born in Ypsilanti, Mich., April 20, 1839. Her mother died and she went to Easthampton, Mass., while yet a child, into the family of H.G. Knight, her uncle, to live and became a pupil of Williston Seminary, which then had a female department. She became an accomplished musician and taught music at Lansingburg, N.Y., in a ladies’ seminary some years.
Chaplain J.H. Bradford, after three years in the army, had taken up home mission work in the west, and after their marriage at the home of her uncle in August, 1865, they went to Hudson, Wis., where he was for a time pastor of the Congregational Church. Later they returned to the east, where for ten years they were engaged in reformatory work in Westboro, Mass., and Middletown, Conn., where they started the Girls’ Industrial School. Their next duty was in charge of the State Primary School at Monson, Mass., where for several years they had a family of more than 700 to look after. They then came to Washington, where they have lived for eighteen years.
Mrs. Bradford was a fluent writer. She wrote mostly for religious papers, and only last week an article of hers appeared in the New York Observer, and one of Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth in the Agriculturist. For some months she was a correspondent of the Congregationalist as “Della Towle,” representing what a young girl saw in Washington.
Among her productions were the song “Over the Line,” published in the Moody and Sankey collections, which has been sung all over the world, and the famous “Ben Hur Tableau,” which was a product of her brain and proved to be a most attractive and successful church entertainment.
Funeral services will be held at her late residence tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. Interment will be at Middletown, Conn., Mrs. Bradford’s husband and four children, two daughters and two sons survive her. - Contributor: Loretta Castaldi (47472615) • [email protected]
Mrs. Ellen Knight Bradford, wife of Rev. J.H. Bradford of this city, died yesterday at her home, No. 904 M street northwest, aged a little more than sixty-years. She was born in Ypsilanti, Mich., April 20, 1839. Her mother died and she went to Easthampton, Mass., while yet a child, into the family of H.G. Knight, her uncle, to live and became a pupil of Williston Seminary, which then had a female department. She became an accomplished musician and taught music at Lansingburg, N.Y., in a ladies’ seminary some years.
Chaplain J.H. Bradford, after three years in the army, had taken up home mission work in the west, and after their marriage at the home of her uncle in August, 1865, they went to Hudson, Wis., where he was for a time pastor of the Congregational Church. Later they returned to the east, where for ten years they were engaged in reformatory work in Westboro, Mass., and Middletown, Conn., where they started the Girls’ Industrial School. Their next duty was in charge of the State Primary School at Monson, Mass., where for several years they had a family of more than 700 to look after. They then came to Washington, where they have lived for eighteen years.
Mrs. Bradford was a fluent writer. She wrote mostly for religious papers, and only last week an article of hers appeared in the New York Observer, and one of Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth in the Agriculturist. For some months she was a correspondent of the Congregationalist as “Della Towle,” representing what a young girl saw in Washington.
Among her productions were the song “Over the Line,” published in the Moody and Sankey collections, which has been sung all over the world, and the famous “Ben Hur Tableau,” which was a product of her brain and proved to be a most attractive and successful church entertainment.
Funeral services will be held at her late residence tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. Interment will be at Middletown, Conn., Mrs. Bradford’s husband and four children, two daughters and two sons survive her. - Contributor: Loretta Castaldi (47472615) • [email protected]
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