Bradley University - Anaga Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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HI TORY 21.2 NSTITUTE DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED HUSBAND, ToB1As s. BRADLEY, AND OUR DECEASED CHILDREN, BY LYDIA BRADLEY. II E above inscription tells us the incentive which actuated Mrs. Lydia Bradley when she gave to us tfiis Institution. Laura Bradley, a much loved daughter of Tobias and Lydia Bradley, though young when call- ed away. had lived to a noble purpose, and the going out of her life brought into being an inspiration to father and mother which prompted a determina- tion to establish with their fortune a memorial which would have life and power for good. The death of Mr. Bradley in 1367 interrupted the progress of plans then under way, but later these were renewed by Mrs. Bradley. She travelled much, personally investigating the best polytechnic and manual-training schools in the countryg considered carefully plans adopted for the perpetuation and main- tenance of such institutions, as well as their structural arrangements and advantages. Mrs. Bradley hrst gave to her plans definite form through her will in 1885, the purpose of which was to convey the bulk of her estate at death for the endowment of an institute. In 1895 the interest in her was greatly quick- ened and she took steps for obtaining larger and more definite knowledge along the line of manual-training schools, and sent Mr. W. W. Hammond as her personal representative to the Washington School for Boys in St. Louis, Throup Institute, in Pasadena, California, and to the National Educational Convention which that year assembled in Buffalo, New York. She conducted large correspondence with Polytechnic Schools all over the United States. Finally it was suggested that she have a conference with Dr. Harper, President of the University of Chicago, and Dr. Harper in his first interview with Mrs. Bradley, realizing that her plans were well matured, urged upon her the advis- ability of endowing the school in her life time. This was a new and a happy view of the undertaking. Her estate was in readiness at any moment and her physical strength of body and mind gave happy promise. Renewing her search for still more definite knowledge, she visited the Chicago Manual Training School and Lewis Institute. November 13, 1896, a charter was secured under the University Act of the State of Illinois, giving to the school 1ts name, ff Bradley Polytechnic Institute , outlining the scope, aim and power of the institute and methods of perpetuation, naming as the first Board of Trusteesg William A. Harper, Leslie D. Puterbaugh, Rudolph