Evening journal., 1914-05-18
MRS. BRADFORD
WIDOW OF JUDGE,
Called BY death

Mrs. Elizabeth Candy Bradford,
widow Of United States District
Judge Edward G. Bradford. who
served from 1871 to 1884. and step
mother Of the present Judge Edward
G. Bradford. died at 1.3O O'Clock this
afternoon at her home. No 2610 West
Sixteenth street She was 81 years
old.
Elizabeth Candy Bradford was born
on February 21, 1927, at her fathers
house. No 1871 Market street, in this
city, which was afterwards owned
and occupied by Richard p. Gibbons.
She was the daughter Of Edmund and
Mary Price Candy. Both her father
and mother were descendants Of
owners and operators OF -four mills
on the Brandywine Creek. Edmund
Candy, her father, and James Candy,
his father. had mills on the south
side of the creek near Market street
bridge. and James Candy was a
grandson Of Oliver Candy, the pioneer
miller here. There we're. therefore.
four generations OF Canbys who were
merchant millers.
Her maternal grandfather, James
Price. learned the milling business on
the Brandywine and afterwards own
ed and operated the flour mill at Har-
mony. about six miles west OF this
city, on the White Clay Creek She
was also a descendant Of Joseph Tat
nall. who. during the Revolutionary
| War, at great risk. and In the face OF
! . l. D. A..
for the Continental Army, at his mill
on the north side Of the Brandywine
opposite the Candy mills. BY a cur.
ious coincidence her paternal grand.
father. James Candy, was the first
president OF the Philadelphia, vii.
mington and Baltimore Railroad
Company. and the second president O
the Union National Bank, Of this city
and her maternal grandfather, James
Price, was the first president of tha
bank, and the second president O
that railroad.
Mrs. Bradford was the eldest OF
i eleven children, including the late
Col. James Candy and the late Major
Samuel Candy and is survived by
only one sister. Ellen Candy Cause
the wife Of Harlan Cause. of thl.
] city
On February B. 1862, she was mar.
ried, at what was then a fine Ole
. colonial house at Sixteenth and Wal
nut streets. in this city. 70 Edward
Green Bradford, who became a lead
ing lawyer and citizen Of the State
, and who from 1871 until his death II
+ 1884 was u. S. District Judge. Ii
( 1866 he built and occupied the larg,
brick house at the northwest cornei
OF Delaware avenue and FRANKLIN
? street, now occupied by Bishop Mona
CHAN. When built there were opeI
fields about Il, Delaware avenue hav
ing been opened very recently, an,
there we're very few houses west o
Judge Gilpin's house, which stood o
the site OF the High School, excep
the Cross Keys Tavern at Adam
street, the Lowering house, afterward
occupied by Judge l.. r. Wales, an
the two stone houses at the northeas
corner OF Delaware avenue an
Broome street
, Mrs. Bradford was a member OF u
q Episcopal Church and attended Trinii
Church at Fifth and Kings streets an
later ST. Andrews Church. AT the tin
of her death she lived at No. POLO We.
Sixteenth street in this city and wa
survived by six children. Elizabeth Car
by Bradford, the widow of Alexis !. dt
Pont; William Dyer Bradford Of Gee
. county, Henry Banning Bradford, vic,
: president of Edge Moor Iron Company
{ Phoebe George Bradford, the wife
I Chancellor Charles NJ. Curtis, and tw
unmarried daughters, Alice Bradfor
}. and Eugenia Bradford The Hon. h,
e ward G. Bradford the present Unite
J. States District Judge OF this distric
is a stepson OF the deceased.
Very few Of the contemporaries
!. Mrs. Bradford are now living, and sh
. was one of the very few remainin
: links connecting the old families {
the early life of Wilmington. with tn
present, and with her gentle. refine
dignity. was fine type Of the lady {
; the past.