Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-09
DEATH OF JAS. W. BRADLEY,
The Well-K nown Proprietor of the TOntine Hotel, After a Few Days

The welI-Known Proprietor of the
 Tontine Hotel, After a Few Days
 Illness. Another addition to the already long list of pneumonia-grip victims was made early last evening and this time it was an other of New Haven's best known citizens. About S:45 o'clock James w. Bradley, who has for so many years presided as the genial host of the Tontine hotel, passed away in spite of all that the best medical assistance could do. A short time ago he was taken with the grip, which by Monday last had developed into pneumonia. Dr. Russell was called to attend his case. The patients condition was not considered alarming until yesterday morning, when a sudden change for the worse set in and he rapidly sank until death came. It was only Friday that he seemed much better, and his friends considered him on the | sure road to recovery.
 He was seventy-six years old, being born in Newtown in the year 1915. His father, Abijah Bradley, was prosperous cabinet l maker of that place and taught his son his own trade. He worked at this with his father until about thirty-fve years of age He had brothers and sisters numbering | ten, of whom two brothers are living Henry A., in Newtown, and Horace Brad | ley in Derby-and sister, Mrs. Cornelia Winton, of Woodbury.
 MT. Bradley came to this city about the l year 1850 and has resided here continually ever since. He first went into the res | taurant business on Union street. where | he stayed a short time only. Next he went | into the city hall restaurant, now Heu- blein's, where he stayed three years. being succeeded by. Frederick Lockwood. MT. Bradley then opened the Madison house on State street, now the Selden, as a hotel, and continued in business there until he
 took the Tontine hotel in 1865, succeeding | J. H. Ross, where he remained until the day of his death. ~.--
 1 He was married in Newtown April 3,
 1887. to Miss Abigail Somers of that place.
 His wife died July Il, 1887. He leaves
 three sons, James Monroe, of Muskegan, | Mich. Edward B. of Ansonia, who is a ] conductor on the Derby road, and Albert H., who has virtually been in charge of
 the hotel for the past three years, and who
 will continue in the management.
 Mr. Bradley has been failing in health
 for the last few years, though the past l winter was much more comfortable fol
 him than the one preceding. His long l record, twenty SIX years, as proprietor ot the
 Tontine, is evidence en ough of his populari
 ty and success, it being more than double
 H. Lee Scranton's term of proprietership
 which was second to that of Mir. Bradley's
 in length. Few hosts were of a more genial
 nature or more widely known than Land
 lord Bradley, and this trait of his was nc
 small part of the attraction of his hotel
 He was modest man in his tastes, no
 caring to enter public life. For the pas
 twenty-five years his place has been tht
 democratic headquarters in convention
 time, and here the preliminary caucuses O
 the party were held. MT. Bradley leaves
 very large circle of friends, comprisinl
 will hear of his death with sorrow an6
 cherish of him none but pleasant recollec l tiona