Dr. Sam Bradbury [photograph]
Descriptive Object
Identifier:
OBJ.O.2005.63
Description
A sepia headshot photograph by M. L. Averill, Photographer, Oldtown, ME, likely taken in the mid-19th century. The subject is identified as Dr. Sam Bradbury. Sam Bradbury was a relative of Dr. James C. Bradbury, also photographed by M. L. Averill, likely around the same time. This is probably James' nephew Sam rather than his brother Sam -- all three men attended Bowdoin Medical School and the class list of 1850 notes James C. Bradbury was instructor to Samuel Bradbury at that time, reinforcing the apparent age gap in the photographs. If this is indeed Dr. Samuel Bradbury, James C. Bradbury's nephew, then his parents were Samuel Crocket Bradbury (James' brother) and Miranda Page Bradbury. This Samuel Bradbury was born July 21, 1829 in Bangor, ME and died March 23, 1894 in Old Town, ME.