Bradrick, Isaiah Allen

Male 1827 - 1899  (71 years)


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  • Name Bradrick, Isaiah Allen 
    Born 22 Jun 1827  Belmont County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Occupation a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church  [4, 5
    • According to a 1904 newspaper article commemorating the 75th birthday of Mary Rankin Bradrick, shortly after Isaiah and Mary were married in Ohio, "they moved to Burlington, Iowa, afterward moving to Mt. Pleasant, Henry county, Iowa, where the Rev. Bradrick took up the work of raising the money to pay off the indebtedness of the Iowa Wesleyan University, which is today one of the oldest and best known Methodist colleges in Iowa. To this work he gave the best years of his life. After completing this great undertaking, Brother Bradrick entered the M. E. Iowa Conference. He was presiding elder on the Burlington and Muscatine districts for many years, and filled nearly all the important pulpits in the Iowa Conference. He was considered one of the ablest preachers in the West. The town of Bradrick, Ohio, was named for Rev. I. A. Bradrick and his name is well remembered by many of the [older?] people of that [now?] thriving Buckeye town."
    Census Jun 1860  Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    • According to the 1860 enumeration, the household consisted of "J. A. Braderick," age 32, head of household, M. E. Minister, born in Ohio; "Mary R. Braderick," age 30, born in Ohio, insane; and "Anna Braderick," age 3, born in Ohio.
    Census Jun 1870  Center Township, Henry County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    • According to the 1870 enumeration, the household consisted of I. A. Bradrick, age 43, head of household, a preacher, born in Ohio; Mary R. Bradrick, age 41, keeping house, born in Ohio; Annie B. Bradrick, age 13, attending school, born in Ohio; Mary B. Bradrick, age 10, attending school, born in Iowa; Charles H. Bradrick, age 9, attending school, born in Iowa; Willie P. Bradrick, age 7, attending school, born in Iowa; and Mattie Orrison, age 26, a seamstress, born in Virginia.
    Census Jun 1880  Mt. Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8

    •      According to the 1880 enumeration, the household consisted of Issah [sic] A. Braderick, age 43, married, a minister; Mary R. Braderick, age 51, wife, married, keeping house; Anna B. Braderick, age 28, daughter, single, at home; Mary B. Braderick, age 20, daughter, single, at school; Charles H. Braderick, age 19, son, single, at school; William Braderick, age 17, son, single, at school; and Elijah R. Braderick, age 9, single, at school.
    Died 10 Apr 1899  Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 10
    • He died in the Englewood section of the city.
    Person ID I6327  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 29 May 2016 

    Family Rankin, Mary,   b. 11 Mar 1829, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Aug 1908, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Married 22 Feb 1854  Newark, Licking County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11, 12, 13
    Children 
    +1. Bradrick, Anna Birdsall,   b. 18 Aug 1856, Lima, Allen County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Feb 1941, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years)
     2. Bradrick, Mary Bell,   b. Abt 1859/60, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Bradrick, Charles H.,   b. Abt 1860/1, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Bradrick, William H.,   b. Abt 1862/3, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Bradrick, Elijah R.,   b. Abt 1870/1, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1904  (Age ~ 32 years)
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F2053  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1860. NARA microfilm M653, roll 343, page 42 (image 223).
      Access through Ancestry.com in July 2008.
           J. A. Braderick household, 1860 U.S. census, Wapello County, Iowa, population schedule, Ottumwa, census page 42, enumerated 7 June 1860, dwelling 301, family 290, lines 1-3.
           J. A. Braderick; age 32; male; M. E. Minister; born in Ohio.
           By calculation from the information provided in the census, "J. A. Braderick" would have been born about 1827-1828.

    2. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1870. NARA microfilm M593, roll 395, page 159, census page 28 (image 320).
      Access through Ancestry.com in July 2008.
           I. A. Bradrick household, 1870 U.S. census, Henry County, Iowa, population schedule, Center Township, Mt. Pleasant Post Office, census page 28, enumerated 22 June 1870, dwelling 194, family 194, lines 8-14.
           Bradrick, I. A.; age 43; male; white; peacher; real estate value-$15,000; personal estate vale-$1,500; born in Ohio; male citizen of USA over 21 years.
           By calculation from the information provided, I. A. Bradrick would have been born about 1826-1827.

    3. [S190] RootsWeb.com. WorldConnect Project.
      Mary Margaret McCaslin-Blanchard. McCaslin-Fisher Family Tree (database: 111748). Updated 17 February 2008. (http://wc.rootsweb.com/~111748). Accessed 20 July 2008.
           Rev. Isaiah Allen Bradrick, a Methodist minister, was born on 22 June 1827 in Belmont County, Ohio.

    4. [S104] Personal communication, 23 July 2008. Digital image from Mary Margaret McCaslin-Blanchard.
      My transcription from a digital image of an unidentified and undated newspaper clipping commemorating the 75th birthday of Mrs. Mary R. Bradrick in 1904.
           "Mrs. Mary R. Bradrick...is the widow of the Rev. I. A. Bradrick, a noted Methodist clergyman.... Mrs. Bradrick was married on Washington's birthday 50 years ago the 22d of last February, at Newark, Ohio. Shortly after their union they moved to Burlington, Iowa, afterward moving to Mt. Pleasant, Henry county, Iowa, where the Rev. Bradrick took up the work of raising the money to pay off the indebtedness of the Iowa Wesleyan University, which is today one of the oldest and best known Methodist colleges in Iowa. To this work he gave the best years of his life. After completing this great undertaking, Brother Bradrick entered the M. E. Iowa Conference. He was presiding elder on the Burlington and Muscatine districts for many years, and filled nearly all the important pulpits in the Iowa Conference. He was considered one of the ablest preachers in the West. The town of Bradrick, Ohio, was named for Rev. I. A. Bradrick and his name is well remembered by many of the [older?] people of that [now?] thriving Buckeye town."

    5. [S211] Article or notice, Western Christian Advocate, Wednesday, 22 December 1880.
      Volume 47, issue 51; page 408, column 4. Accessed in December 2009 through ProQuest: American Periodical Series. Document ID 808801912. ( http://proquest.com/ ).
           Notice of the marriage on 20 October 1880 of Dr. George A. Fiegenbaum and Miss Anna B. Bradrick at Mt Pleasant, Iowa. Anna B. Bradrick was the daughter of "Rev. I. A. Bradrick, of the Iowa Conference;" the father officiated at the wedding.

    6. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1860. NARA microfilm M653, roll 343, page 42 (image 223).
      Access through Ancestry.com in July 2008.
           J. A. Braderick household, 1860 U.S. census, Wapello County, Iowa, population schedule, Ottumwa, census page 42, enumerated 7 June 1860, dwelling 301, family 290, lines 1-3.
           The household consisted of: 1) J. A. Braderick; age 32; male; M. E. Minister; born in Ohio. 2) Mary R. Braderick; age 30; female; born in Ohio; insane. 3) Anna Braderick; age 3; female; born in Ohio.

    7. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1870. NARA microfilm M593, roll 395, page 159, census page 28 (image 320).
      Access through Ancestry.com in July 2008.
           I. A. Bradrick household, 1870 U.S. census, Henry County, Iowa, population schedule, Center Township, Mt. Pleasant Post Office, census page 28, enumerated 22 June 1870, dwelling 194, family 194, lines 8-14.
           The household consisted of: 1) Bradrick, I. A.; age 43; male; white; peacher; real estate value-$15,000; personal estate vale-$1,500; born in Ohio; male citizen of USA over 21 years. 2) Bradrick, Mary R.; age 41; female; white; keeping house; born in Ohio. 3) Bradrick, Annie B.; age 13; female; white; attending school; born in Ohio; attended school within the year. 4) Bradrick, Mary B.; age 10; female; white; attending school; born in Iowa; attended school within the year. 5) Bradrick, Chas. H.; age 9; male; white; attending school; born in Iowa; attended school within the year. 6) Bradrick, Willie P.; age 7; male; white; attending school; born in Iowa; attended school within the year. 7) Orrison, Mattie; age 26; female; white; seamstress; born in Virginia.

    8. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880. NARA microfilm T9, roll 344, page 326, census page 45.
      Access through Ancestry.com in July 2008.
           Issah Braderick household, 1880 U.S. census, Henry County, Iowa, population schedule, Mt. Pleasant, Ward 1, Supervisor’s District 1, Enumeration District 95, census page 45, enumerated 21 June 1880, Lincoln Street, dwelling 426, family 475, lines 36-42.
           The household consisted of: 1) Braderick, Issah [sic] A.; white; male; age 43 [sic]; married; Minister; born in Ohio; father born in N. Jersey; mother born in N. Jersey. 2) Braderick, Mary R.; white; female; age 51 [sic]; wife; married; keeping house; born in Ohio; father born in Pennsylvania; mother born in Pennsylvania. 3) Braderick, Anna B.; white; female; age 28; daughter; single; at home; born in Ohio; father born in Ohio; mother born in Ohio. 4) Braderick, Mary B.; white; female; age 20; daughter; single; at school; attended school within the year; born in Iowa; father born in Ohio; mother born in Ohio. 5) Braderick, Charles H.; white; male; age 19; son; single; at school; attended school within the year; born in Iowa; father born in Ohio; mother born in Ohio. 6) Braderick, William; white; male; age 17; son; single; at school; attended school within the year; born in Iowa; father born in Ohio; mother born in Ohio. 7) Braderick, Elijah R.; white; male; age 9; son; single; [at school not entered]; attended school within the year; born in Iowa; father born in Ohio; mother born in Ohio.

    9. [S190] RootsWeb.com. WorldConnect Project.
      Mary Margaret McCaslin-Blanchard. McCaslin-Fisher Family Tree (database: 111748). Updated 17 February 2008. (http://wc.rootsweb.com/~111748). Accessed 20 July 2008.
           Rev. Isaiah Allen Bradrick died on 10 April 1899 at Chicago, Illinois.

    10. [S104] Personal communication, 23 July 2008. Digital image from Mary Margaret McCaslin-Blanchard.
      My transcription from a digital image of an unidentified and undated newspaper clipping commemorating the 75th birthday of Mrs. Mary R. Bradrick in 1904.
           "Mrs. Mary R. Bradrick, who has resided at the corner of N. Normal Parkway and Stewart avenue, Englewood, for the past eight years, ...is the widow of the Rev. I. A. Bradrick, a noted Methodist clergyman, who passed away at the same place April 10, 1899."

    11. [S190] RootsWeb.com. WorldConnect Project.
      Mary Margaret McCaslin-Blanchard. McCaslin-Fisher Family Tree (database: 111748). Updated 17 February 2008. (http://wc.rootsweb.com/~111748). Accessed 20 July 2008.
           Rev. Isaiah Allen Bradrick and Mary Rankin were married on 22 February 1854 in Neward [sic], Ohio.

    12. [S104] Personal communication, 23 July 2008. Digital image from Mary Margaret McCaslin-Blanchard.
      My transcription from a digital image of an unidentified and undated newspaper clipping commemorating the 75th birthday of Mrs. Mary R. Bradrick in 1904.
           "Mrs. Mary R. Bradrick...is the widow of the Rev. I. A. Bradrick, a noted Methodist clergyman, .... Mrs. Bradrick was married on Washington's birthday 50 years ago the 22d of last February, at Newark, Ohio....Mrs Bradrick is the mother of five children, four of whom are living."
           According to this account, the marriage would have taken place on 22 February 1854.

    13. [S279] Ancestry.com (library edition), Iowa, Marriage Records, 1880-1940 (formerly titled Iowa, Marriage Records, 1880-1937) (https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8823 in December 2017), Fiegenbaum-McKee 1880.
      Accessed in May 2016. Original data from the State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa Marriage Records, 1880–1922 (textual records); Iowa State Archives; Des Moines, Iowa; Volume: 302 (Dubuque-Henry). The following data has been taken from relevant portions of a digital image of the source.
           Return of marriages in the County of Henry for the year ending 1 October 11. The transcription of the marriage records compiled in this volume was certified by W. L. Andrews, Clerk District and Circuit Courts (W. E. Wells, Deputy), on 1 November 1881.
           Number of license: [no entry]. Date of License: [no entry]. Who made Affidavit: [no entry]. Who gave consent to marriage: [no entry]. Bride's name: Anna B. Bradrick. Bride's maiden name if a widow: [no entry]. Bride's residence: Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Bride's age at NEXT birthday: 25. Bride's birth place: Lima, Ohio. Bride's father's name: I. A. Bradrick. Bride's mother's full maiden name: Mary Rankin.
           For full details of this record, see the sources for the Fiegenbaum-McKee marriage.