4232. Theda Blakeslee (Cooper Blakeslee , Jonah Blakeslee , Lydia Bradley , James Bradley , Nathaniel Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born on 19 Mar 1799 in North Haven, Connecticut, USA. She died on 4 Sep 1868 in North Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Theda married (1) Levi Brockett son of Enos Brockett and Hannah Jacobs on 22 Aug 1817 in North Haven, Connecticut, USA. Levi was born about 1798 in North Haven, Connecticut, USA. He died on 2 May 1886 in North Haven, Connecticut, USA.
They had the following children:
+ 5576 M i Jairus Brockett is printed as #4229.
Theda married (2) Levi Brockett. Levi was born about 1795 in North Haven, Connecticut, USA.
4235. Almira Blakeslee (Cooper Blakeslee , Jonah Blakeslee , Lydia Bradley , James Bradley , Nathaniel Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born on 22 Jul 1801 in North Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Almira married Horace Webster son of Jonathan Webster and Huldah Orvis on 5 Oct 1818 in North Haven, Connecticut, USA. Horace was born on 14 Aug 1797 in Sandisfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, USA. He died on 5 Nov 1857 in Thompson, Geauga Co., Ohio, USA.
They had the following children:
+ 5577 M i Dennis Webster + 5578 F ii Amanda Webster + 5579 M iii Horace Webster + 5580 F iv Harriett Webster
4245. Emeline Amelia Bradley (Abigail Ann Atwater , Samuel Atwater , Abraham Atwater , Abigail Bradley , Nathaniel Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 1 on 20 Dec 1820 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. She died 2 on 19 Jul 1847 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA.
Gravestone:
Memento MoriAlfred P. Curtiss
Died
July 21, 1870,
AE. 53
Emeline Amelia
Wife of
Alfred P. Curtiss
& Daughter of
Levi & Abigail Ann
Bradley
died July 19, 1847.
Aet. 27.
Sarah M. Hitchcock
Wife of A. P. Curtiss
died Dec. 3 1857
Ae. 24
Emeline married 1 Alfred Pierpont Curtiss on 19 Oct 1838 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. Alfred was born in 1817. He died 2 on 21 Jul 1870.
They had the following children:
4246. Samuel Atwater Bradley (Abigail Ann Atwater , Samuel Atwater , Abraham Atwater , Abigail Bradley , Nathaniel Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 1 on 18 Jan 1823 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. He died on 1 Oct 1860 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. He was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Cheshire, Connecticut, USA.
Samuel married 1 Abigail Doolittle daughter of Levi Doolittle and Esther Tuttle on 26 Mar 1845 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. Abigail was born on 26 Mar 1822 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. She died on 15 Sep 1911 in Milldale, Connecticut, USA. She was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Cheshire, Connecticut, USA.
"Funeral services for Mrs. Abigail Doolittle Bradley, widow of Samuel Atwater Bradley, who died yesterday at her home in Milldale at the age of ninety, will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the home. Death was due to ailments incident to old age. She leaves two sons, Walter H Bradley of Meriden and John A. Bradley of Ashtabula, O., two brothers Augustus Doolittle, of Milldale, and Elton Doolittle, of Iowa, and a sister Mrs. Adeliza Hitchcock, of Milldale.
Abigail Doolittle Bradley was a granddaughter of Captain Lucius Tuttle on her mother's side and a grand-daughter of Captain Ezra Doolittle. He built the Cheshire school or academy.
Captain Tuttle was a prominent man in Cheshire for many years and during the Revolution was under General Washington's command at Boston and Long Island, and he him self had command of a company of his townsmen at the battle which resulted in the surrender of General Burgoyne and his army at Saratoga, N.Y., in 1777. He died in the house of his son Lucius in Wolcott, June 27, 1846 aged ninety-seven.
His daughter Esther, born December 30 1792, married Levi Doolittle of Cheshire. She died March 20 1855, aged sixty two. Abigail Doolittle Bradley would have been ninety years old next March."
They had the following children:
+ 5582 M i William A. Bradley + 5583 M ii John Atwater Bradley + 5584 M iii Walter Hubbard Bradley + 5585 F iv Emma A. Bradley
4247. William Lambert Bradley (Abigail Ann Atwater , Samuel Atwater , Abraham Atwater , Abigail Bradley , Nathaniel Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 1 on 25 May 1826 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. He died 2 on 15 Dec 1894 in Hingham, Massachusetts, USA. He was buried in Walnut Grove Cem., Meridien, Connecticut, USA. William was employed 3 as Founder, Bradley Fertilizer Co. of Boston.
WILLIAM L. BRADLEY
Perhaps no resident of Meriden during the century of its existence as an incorporated town, ever won to a higher degree the admiration and esteem of his fellow townsmen than did the late William L. Bradley. His life furnishes not only a conspicuous example of perseverance and ability worthy to be chronicled in the pages of history but one which may well be emulated by generations following him.Born in Cheshire, Conn., May 25, 1826, he was a son of Levi and Abigail A. (Atwater) Bradley, and his progenitors on both sides are traced directly to the first settlers of New Haven county. His early ancestor, William Bradley, was a major in Oliver Cromwell's army, and he immigrated to this country and settled in North Haven as far back as 1643. William L. Bradley was also descended from David Atwater, one of the first planters of New Haven, who the records show, settled there in 1639.
William L. Bradley, as a boy, attended the district school of his native town, following which he further pursued his education at the academies of Southington and Cheshire, concluding his schooling at the Lancasterian School at New Haven.
At the age of thirteen he began his remarkable business career as a clerk in a New Haven dry goods store, and at seventeen he became a member of the firm of one of the largest dry goods houses in that city. The business not being entirely congenial to his tastes he withdrew his interest in the store and entered the employ of Charles Parker as traveling salesman. That he adapted himself to his new circumstances with unusual versatility seems to be proven by his success in largely increasing the sales of his employer.
With the consent of Mr. Parker, he also became interested with a friend in the manufacture of portemonnaies, and later in the manufacture of clocks and small metal wares with his brother, Nathaniel L. Bradley, and Walter Hubbard, which afterward developed into the Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Co., the largest industry of its kind in the world.
During this period he purchased four acres of land in West Meriden and erected a fine residence thereon, which is still standing. He improved and beautified this property to a noticeable extent, and gradually added more land to the estate until it comprised over two hundred acres. In this house his two sons, Peter B. and Robert S., and one daughter, Abby A. Bradley, who now survive him, were born, and with his family he occupied the house for many years. Although it is now over forty years since he removed with his family from the city, the estate now occupied by the Meriden Golf Club, is still well kept and almost intact, although as stated elsewhere in this book, is ere long to be cut up into house lots.
It was in 1861 that Mr. Bradley saw the future possibilities of chemical fertilizers and it was he who first embraced the opportunity in this country to make a success of that industry.With his notes endorsed for a limited amount by Oakes Ames, of Boston, whom he had interested in his project, he began the manufacture of fertilizers in a factory situated on the banks of the old South Bay, Boston. The business soon outgrew this small plant and later another and larger factory was built at North Weymouth, which eventually became the largest of its kind in the world.
Greater and greater became the demand for Bradley's fertilizers until their use became general among the farmers in the east and south.
In 1872 the business was incorporated under the name of the Bradley Fertilizer Company and branch offices were established at Rochester, N. Y., Cleveland, O., Baltimore, Md., and Augusta, Ga., Mr. Bradley continuing at the head of the corporation as president
and manager. Later he became largely interested in other fertilizer works at Carteret, N. J., Cleveland, O., Baltimore, Md., and Charleston, S. C., besides operating extensive phosphate mines in South Carolina and Florida.His early struggles and constant cares so impaired his health that he retired from active business some years before his death, and was relieved from the management of his various large enterprises by his sons, Peter B. and Robert S. Bradley, who had been associated with him for many years. During the last years of his life he devoted much of his time to the care of his beautiful country estate at Hingham, Mass., where he died after a short illness December 15, 1894. He had attained the age of sixty-eight years, and his active life, kind disposition and benevolence will ever be remembered by those who knew him.
Mr. Bradley was married in 1848 to Frances Martina Coe, the daughter of Calvin and Harriet (Rice) Coe, who before her marriage lived with her parents on the celebrated Coe farm in the Hanover district. Two sons and one daughter, as stated above, survive him.
THE WM. L. BRADLEY ESTATE.
This old estate, comprising over 200 acres, and one of the grandest in all Connecticut, is soon to be invaded by streets and gradually portioned off into residence lots. The history of this estate, every square foot of which furnishes delightful views of the celebrated Meriden Hanging Hills and other charming scenery of woodland, hill and dale, recalls pleasant memories to the people of Meriden, both of present and past generations.The original estate, purchased from Hezekiah Rice in 1851 by the late William L. Bradley, comprised but four acres upon which Mr. Bradley erected a fine house and spent a large amount of money in beautifying the grounds. To this small acreage he continually added by subsequent purchases of adjoining property until the estate embraced over two hundred acres of the most beautiful lands in this part of Connecticut.
The name of the so-called "Old Road" was changed to Bradley avenue; and Hanover street was put through on the other side of the property. The introduction of street cars has now brought the whole estate within ten minutes of the heart of Meriden.
A section of the estate, years ago, was converted into a fair grounds and in those days the "Meriden Fair" was held successfully every year. The marks of the old race track over which noted races were run, although now merged into the giant velvety lawn, are still discernable on close inspection. Within the past few years the estate, with the old homestead for a club house, has been leased by the Meriden Golf Club and used exclusively by the members. The grounds have been admirably laid out for the purpose and comprise as desirable an area for the game as is to be found in New England.
The present owners of this property, Peter B. and Robert S. Bradley, sons of the late William L. Bradley, both of whom were born in the Bradley homestead, but for many years have been prominent in business circles of Boston, have planned to allow the entire estate to be sold into house lots, stipulating only that houses to be built thereon shall be of a certain value. With this aim in view the property has been placed in the hands of the well known real estate agents of Meriden, Holt & Stevens. The owners will furnish capital to build houses on the property if desired by purchasers of land. It bids fair, therefore, to assume that ere Meriden begins her second century as an incorporated town the picturesque Bradley estate will have assumed the appearances and evidences of a fashionable residence section
[Historic Record of the Town of Meriden, Connecticut, 1906, Vol. 2, 418-423]
William married 1 Frances Martina Coe daughter of Calvin Coe and Harriet Rice in 1848. Frances was born on 25 Mar 1829. She died on 16 Dec 1892 in Meridien, Connecticut, USA. She was buried in Walnut Grove Cem., Meridien, Connecticut, USA.
They had the following children:
5586 M i Peter B. Bradley was born in 1850 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA.
IN ARABIAN CIRCLES. Peter B. Bradley (1850-1933) is usually referred to as the financial angel for the Homer Davenport expedition to Arabia, which is considered a major contribution to the establishment of the Arabian horse in America. In addition, Bradley was primarily responsible for keeping the imported Davenport bloodlines intact as a breeding group and for preserving the bloodlines of the Hamidie Hippodrome Society. His was one of the earliest collections of Arabians in this country.
Despite the fact that he played an imortant role in the founding of the Arabian Horse Club of America, Bradley's preference for staying quietly out of the limelight was such that he is now almost completely forgotten as a personality within the Arabian community. The rather impersonal printed records of his Arabian horse activities remain, however, and from them his importance can be estimated. More important, however, is that pedigrees of currently living Arabian horses show that his influence on Arabian horse breeding is still significant.
Peter Bradley was an industrialist from the Boston, Massachusetts, area, with business interests in fertilizer, lumber and heavy machinery. Perhaps there were other fields of activity as well, since he is mentioned in one of Homer Davenport's letters as being "worth 50 millions of money." (1) The amount may have been an easy exaggeration, but Peter Bradley was no doubt well-established from a financial point of view. His activities as a horse breeder centered around his farm near Hingham, Massachusetts, a farm known to every fan of the earlier Arabian Horse Club stud books as the "Hingham Stock Farm," The name appears frequently as breeder and owner of historic horses, and according to one description, the farm was extensive, with stalls for 50 mares and foals. There were also a polo grounds and a race track. Davenport writes that, in addition to his Arabs, Bradley had Thoroughbreds, Standardbreds, and Hackneys. (2)
Peter Bradley first became involved with Arabian horses in January of 1894 when the horses of the Hamidie Hippodrome Society were auctioned in a mortgage settlement. These horses had been brought to this country for the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, as part of an exhibition of Syrian village life presented by special arrangement with the government of the Ottoman Empire, which then controlled Syria and most of the rest the rest of the Arabian peninsula. In view of the substantial emigration going on from these areas to the U.S. at that time, it may be that Abdul Hamid II, the Ottoman Sultan, felt that public relations between the two countries would be advanced by a World's Fair exhibit. If a similar exhibition were to be held today, it would be called a matter of "cultural exchange" between nations. The highlight of this particular exhibition was a demonstration of Arabian horses ridden in native Bedouin style - rather like a wild West show with Arab riders instead of Indians.
Of the horses imported by the Hamidie Society, nine were supposed to have been killed in a fire - said to be incendiary - which also destroyed the importation documention for all the horses except one. Some horses may have been sold privately. Twenty-eight remaining horses were advertised for auction, which was held January 4, 1894, by Tattersall's of Chicago.
Bradley, either by direct purchase at that sale or by subsequent private purchase, acquired a major collection from the group offered. Included were *Obeyran, *Galfia, Koubishan and *Mannaky, as was *Pride, a mare which was apparently from among the imported horses under another name, although she may have been the foal of *Galfia or one of the other mares born after Bradley's purchases at the Tattersall's auction. The full extent of Bradley's collection of Hamidie horses recently became much more apparent when Peter Sarra, an astute collector of historical items concerning the Arabian horse, discovered in the New England area a collection of stall signs for horses known to be of the Hamidie importation. That these signs turned up in New England is an indication that the horses designated by them were likely among the Hamidie horses eventually owned by Bradley. The signs wee as follows: Araby, Abbya, Miggour, Koubishan, Zariffey, Halool, Manakey, Galfea and Kuzoiv. (It will be noted that two of the signs - those for "Manakey" and "Galfea" - were for horses among the ones ultimately registered.) An additional Hamidie horse known to have been in Bradley's ownership was a stallion catalogued by Davenport as "Abeya" or "Abeyan." There has been conjecture that this horse was subsequently registered as *Abbeian, a horse who is registered, however, as imported by Davenport in 1906. Also among the horses purchased by Bradley's agent, Souther, at the Tattersall's auction was a light grey stallion, Sirhal. (3)
In all, therefore, at some time Bradley may have owned as many as 13 horses of the Hamidie Society importation. It is not possible to assign the total number precisely, because ownership records for the time are incomplete. We do know, however, that beginning in 1894, he acquired a substantial collection of Arabian horses of desert origin from the Hamidie Society dispersal.
From a breeder's point of view, the potential of these horses as a closed breeding group was limited because there were only four mares, of which *Pride and *Galfia produced foals of eventual registration. The blood of *Pride and *Galfia in conbination with the Hamidie stallions *Mannaky and *Obeyran is still present in Arabian horses today. The major survival of a Hamidie bloodline into current breeding, however, occurred when *Obeyran was bred to *Wadduda, of the Davenport importation, producing Aared, who through her daughter Sedjur established one of the most successful female lines in American breeding, leading, among others, to Bint Sahara, who is noted for founding the McCoy dynasty, including Fersara, The Real McCoy, Fadjur, Ferzon, and other distinguished horses.
Of the Hamidie Society imports, only one which has survived into modern breeding was not purchased by Bradley. That was the noted *Nejdme, supposed to have been the best of the group. He did eventually obtain her daughter Nanshan, however, who is especially known for producing for him Dahura, a mare which appears in a legion of pedigrees tracing to old American breeding.
During the exhibition of the Hamidie horses at Chicago, a young cartoonist named Homer Davenport was captivated by their beauty. After the Fair, he lost track of them for some years, but eventually discovered that Bradley still had the remnants of the group at Hingham. Davenport visited the farm for the first time in 1898. By then, he comments that some of the original horses had died, but he purchased one of those remaining, the stallion Koubishan. (4) This began a business relationship with Bradley which lasted for years and had a major influence on the establishment of the Arabian horse in America.
The association between the two men was mutually complementary in that each contributed to it in ways that the other could not. Davenport -- the artist -- furnished the verve and imagination, which tended to be lacking in the Boston industrialist. On the other hand, Bradley furnished a steadfastness of purpose and a financial stability which Davenport may not have had. Bradley's involvement with the horse enterprise did not end with money. In accounts of public horse meetings of those days, he is shown as frequently present along with Davenport, not saying anything of record, but no doubt keeping his eye on how things were going. Probably, too, his ownership of a race track and polo grounds indicates personal interest in the performance of his horses. Davenport wrote of him,
"Mr. Bradley used his horses constantly; drove them as well as rode them, played polo on them, and their performances have amounted to more in the few years that he had them than those of all the rest of the Arabs that ever came to the country." (5)
By 1906, Bradley and Davenport had formed a partnership in Arabian horses. (6) Davenport writes that at that time all of Bradley's surviving Hamidie horses were in his stable, (7) which may have been part of the partnership arrangement. If it indicates that Bradley was out of Arabian horse at Hingham, the condition was only temporary, because by then he and Davenport had joined in a venture for the importatin of Arabian horses directly from Arabia to the United States. Bradley was furnishing most of the financing; Davenport was supplying some of the money and was to carry out the actual expedition.
The circumstances which made this project possible were unique in the history of Arabian breeding. Davenport's occupation as a political cartoonist had led to a contact with another horse enthusiast, Theodore Roosevelt, who was at that time at the height of his power as President of the United States. In those days it was contrary to Turkish policy to export Arabian mares from Arabia. Stallions could be exported, but not mares. (8) Through President Roosevelt's personal intercession, Abdul Hamid II, the Ottoman Sultan, issued an offical directive - called an "Irade" - permitting Davenport to export both mares and stallions from the Ottoman Empire, which at that time included the areas of the Nafud and Hamad deserts from which the best Arabian horses came. The Imperial Irade was more than a simple permit to get some mares through customs inspections. The response to it by Nazim Pasha, Governor of Aleppo and Syria, indicated that it was considered a deliberate sign of the Sultan's intent that Davenport should get Arabian horses. Even today, a project for export of horses sponsered by two chiefs of major states would be considered a remarkable venture.
In backing the Davenport expedition to Arabia, Bradley was by no means betting on a sure thing. Davenport was a horseman with considerable experience in Arabian horses, but he was a complete novice in the matter of desert travel. Furthermore, the Middle East of those days was an inhospitable area where law and order were not well-established and travel hazardous -- as it still may be today. The Irade offered a unique opportunity for buying horses, but the successs or even the safety of the person using it was not assured.
As matters worked out, however, the trip went very well. Twenty-seven Bedouin-bred horses of asil lineage were obtained. The large size of the importation was unusual. Even more so was the emphasis which had been placed upon pedigree authentication of the horse acquired. Probably most horses sold from Arabia have come into western hands by way of horse dealers, but these horses had been obtained by their ultimate purchaser, Davenport, under desert conditions from Bedouin owners who together with witnesses had testified under religious oath as to the origin and character of the horses sold. Ostensibly similar documents were of easy manufacture from mid-eastern horse dealers, but, where Davenport was himself present at the time of the sale transactions, he could be sure he was getting bona fide testimonials authenticating the horse.
THE IMPORTATION arrived in October, 1906. Some of the horses went to Bradley's Hingham Stock Farm near Boston. Others remained with Davenport at his farm in Morris Plains, New Jersey. The partnership arrangement betwen Bradley and Davenport became a corporation acting under the name of "Davenport Desert Arabian Stud." Foals were registered as bred by the Davenport Desert Arabian Stud, and sale catalogs were issued under that name. Exhibition of the horses was done jointly, with Davenport serving as spokesman but Bradley often being in attendance. There were exchanges of breeding stock between the farms of the two men to the point that it is not completely possible to separate the foals bred by Peter Bradley from those bred Homer Davenport. (However, some clues to the actual breeder of individual foals can be found in changes of breding credits between the 1913 and 1917 AHC stud books.)
Working together, Bradley and Davenport accomplished much for the Arabian horse in its new American home. The surviving Hamidie lines, though few in number, were maintained and allowed to expand. The horses of the 1906 desert importation were incorporated into an overall breeding venture making optimum use of breeding stock available. Not least, public presentation of the corporation's horses was so successful that some of its annually published promotional catalogs are still in circulation. The horses described in them are long dead, of course, but the catalogs are studied for a better understanding of foundation Arabian breeding in America. The overall goals for the organization are given in an advertisement:
"It is not the purpose of this company to cross Arabian blood with the trotter to improve the trot, or to cross him with the runner to increase the speed of running, but it is the purpose of this Stud to produce the most beautiful, most intelligent, and best saddle horses for parks and estates that have ever been seen in America. It is also the purpose to produce the best polo horses that ever followed a ball . . . Horsemen of the country that would care to see the real Desert bred Arabian horses . . . are cordially invited to come and see them. They will find them being driven in carriages and used under saddle, and they will readily see what the Arab horse is suited for."
Unfortunately, the cooperation between Bradley and Davenport did not continue smoothly. Perhaps in 1909 or 1910, their business relationship deteriorated. One of the other prominent Arabian breeders of the day, Spencer Borden attributed the change to the actions of Martin Towle, who acted for Bradley as general manager. (9) (Borden indictes that it was to make up for the loss of the Bradley connection that Davenport went to England in 1910 and imported three horses, the most notable of which was the famous *Abu Zeyd.) Another factor may have been that in 1909, for personal reasons, Davenport may have been considerably distacted from his horse enterprise. There is no evidence of bitterness between Bradley and Davenport, and the two men seem to have continued to cooperate in the exchange of mares, so perhaps any break between them was not a drastic one.
THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT concerning the 1906 importation from the desert was that a problem developed in getting the horses registered. Previous to the 1906 importation, the Jockey Club had performed registration functions for Arabians in this country without much regard as to points of origin of the horses; but Davenport had cartooned August Belmont, President of the Jockey Club, unfavorably. This, combined with personal animosities towards Davenport on the part of other Arabian breeders who were promoting rival groups of horses, jelled a Jockey Club policy excluding the horses of the 1906 importation from registration. The same exclusion extended to almost all other Arabian horses in this country not imported by way of England. The problem was eventually worked out after Davenport's death, but, at the time, it was a very serious matter for Bradley and Davenport, who between them had a herd of horses that needed registration services. Others with lesser numbers of horses were in the same boat. Obviously, something had to be done if Arabian breeding in the United States was to progress in an orderly way.
The solution to the difficulty was the establishment in 1908 of the Arabian Horse Club of America. At its time of organization, Bradley and Davenport were first and second vice-presidents. When the organization's initial stud book was published in 1909, Bradley was still vice-president, but Davenport no longer held that office although he remained as a director. With publication of Volume I of the Arabian Horse Club stud books in 1913, Peter Bradley was president, a position he held until succeeded by W.R.Brown by 1918. Brown's attitude towards his predecessor in the office was less than enthusiastic because he felt that Bradley had been an inactive president who had delegated the responsiblities of the office to his manager, Martin Towle. (10) During Bradley's term of office, however, the essential functions of a registry had been maintained, while at the same time harsh feelings between factions of the fledgling American Arabian breeders had moderated so that they could, for the most part, be resolved during the presidency of W.R.Brown. To have kept the club going during the rocky first part of its existence was an important contribution to the development of the breed in this country. None of the other Arabian breeders of the time in America had the stature as a senior and major breeder which Peter Bradley held. He would not have been kept in his position if these had not been qualitites which were felt to be important for the welfare of the Arabian horse.
Thanks to the breeders of Peter Bradley's time, the Arabian Horse Club of America got off to a healthy start in 1908. Had this start been substantially delayed or had its registration fuction faltered, many of the early bloodlines which are a characterising feature of the Arabian in America would most likely have failed to survive. No doubt at some later time the Arabian horse would have been re-established in this country, but in a different form than we know today.
When Homer Davenport died in 1912, Arabian horse breeding in America lost a person who had provided the spark that made it a going concern, who had made a major contribution in importing and breeding several extraordinary bloodlines, and who had been instrumental in the establishment of a registry to account for our national production of Arabian horses. Appreciation of all these contributions by Homer Davenport is not in any way lessened by pointing out that the major part of them were carried out with the active support of Peter Bradley. Without this support, it is likely that few of these efforts would have been as successful as they were.
The operation of Hingham Stock Farm was little affected by the death of Davenport. The majority of the breeding stock from the 1906 importation was already there. Continuity of breeding plans which had been carried on under the name "Davenport Desert Arabian Stud" was preserved when the desertbred females in Davenport's estate, in addition to certain others, were added to the Hingham inventory. After that, breeding simply went on pretty much as it had before.
Peter Bradley's Arabian horse career spanned 30 years: the first foal of his breeding was Mannaky Jr, foaled 1895; his last foal was Carolstone, foaled 1925. Most of the foals for which the Hingham Stock Farm is credited as breeder were born during the years 1908 to 1922. Coming as it did at the very beginning of Arabian breeding in this country and involving bloodlines of foundation quality, Bradley's influence on the development of the breed was great. In all, the total number of Hingham Stock Farm produce as shown in Volume V of the AHC stud books is 128, which, allowing for the difficulty in separating Bradley's activity as a breeder from Davenport's, is an approximately accurate figure for production under the Hingham name.
The Hingham breeding stock came primarily from the Davenport importation of 1906. These bloodlines were kept together at Hingham, where Davenport stallions were used exclusively, except for Narkhaleb, sire of one Hingham foal. One of the breeding problems - or opportunities, depending on how it was regarded - which the Davenport group of horses must have presented to Bradley was that it included a high proportion of stallions to mares. Fourteen of the 24 animals registered as from the importation were stallions. It was a practical impossibility for each of these to have a fair trial at stud. Furthermore, room had to be found in the breeding schedule for promising first-generation stallions of Hingham breeding.
As matters worked out, although some of the imported stallions were never used at Hingham, quite a few of them did have an opportunity, as did the young stallions Maleik, Letan, Fartak, and Harara, all of which were produce of the desert imports. Two stallions which were given special prominence were *Deyr and *Hamrah.
Raswan writes that *Deyr was bred by Ibn ar-Rashid of Deyr Ez-Zor (where the Blunts also bought horses) and was by a Kuhaylan-Ajuz Ibn Tamri of the Saba-Anazah out of an Abayyah-Sharrakiyah of Ibn Ajlan of the Al-Hanatish, a clan of the Fid'an-Anazah. (11) In current Arabian breeding, he is represented numerous times, especially through Harara and his son Antez, Amran, Tabab and <HanadLegacyRJ.html>. Zaher, in his statistical analysis of the genetic history of the Arabian breed in America, reports that *Deyr had a relationship of 4.5% to the breed in the period 1917-1936. (12) In all, *Deyr sired 17 foals, all bred at the Hingham Stock Farm. Well-known breeding programs in which there is influence from *Deyr are those of Alice Payne <APRaswanObit.html>, Jane and Carl Asmis, Dr. W.L.Munson, Clarence and Gina Manion, H.V.Tormohlen, R.B. Field, Carleton Cummings (Skyline Arabian Horse Trust), Margaret Shuey, Leland Mekeel, Edna Draper, Gerald Donoghue, Frank McCoy, Daniel Gainey, and existing Davenport breeders. His primary existing sire line descends through his son Hanad and his grandson Antez.
Peter Bradley's best-known stallion was *Hamrah, a bay Saqlawi-Jidran of Ibn Badan Al-Awaji of the Wuld Sulayman-Anazah out of *Urfah. His sire was a Hamdani-Simri of Ibn Subay'i of the Saba-Anazah. (13) In his catalogs of the importation horses, Davenport notes that the Bedouins he met considered *Hamrah's dam *Urfah to be "the best mare they knew of in the northern desert." (14) Davenport's description of *Hamrah in his 1909-1910 catalog is probably more revealing of the horse's appearance as a young stallion than any photograph that remains of him:
"This young horse is rapidly rounding into one of the best of the entire importation. He is a very beautiful golden bay with three white feet and a pretty star and strip in the face. He is a horse of immense power and the finest possible action under saddle in the gallop. He would impress you at once as being a racehorse and in an impromptu trial of a mile he ran the last quarter in 29 seconds as a three-year-old without a day's preparation and in fact never having run before at top speed. Many visitors prefer him to any of the importation and while on exhibition before the President of the United States, Quartermaster General Ailshire preferred him even to any of the rest ... His exhibit of flat clean bone is indeed a rare one and the peculiar oval of his loin is something unusual.(15)
Bradley seems to have recognized that he was on to a good thing with *Hamrah, and he made the most extensive and systematic use of him of any of his Arabian stallions. *Hamrah's first Hingham foal was registered in 1909. Registrations are credited to *Hamrah for every year thereafter through 1921. In all, he sired 46 foals of Hingham Stock Farm breeding with an additional seven foals elsewhere. It was not until the career of Ribal in the 1930's, when there were many more mares for breeding, that *Hamrah's total number of foals was exceeded by an Arabian sire in America. According to Zaher, *Hamrah had the highest relationship to the breed in America of any stallion for the period 1907-1946, which for the last ten years of that study amounted to seven percent. The other great stallion of the day was *Abu Zeyd. This horse was imported by Davenport from England in 1910, but was not used by Bradley. *Abu Zeyd had about the same number of foals, but Zaher's study show that he had much less impact on the breed (two percent for the last ten years of the study). (16) Like many of the other Bradley breeding animals, *Hamrah's productive years came at a time when market outlets for Arabian foals had not yet been developed in this country. This is probably the reason why there are no recorded offspring of many of his foals. But he had a high percentage of daughters which became influential broodmares, including Sedjur, Moliah, Dehahah, Hasiker, Sankirah, Morfda, Amham, Adouba, Fasal, Kokhle and Poka. These mares were of central importance in their generation of American breeding, and they appear throughout the pedigrees of many current Arabians of domestic breeding.
There were definite patterns of breeding in the Hingham usage of stallions: after 1906, the one used were almost exclusively of the blood of the Davenport importation. *Hamrah, of course, was used every year. Beyond that, each year's foal crop was divided among stallions so that no one stallion monopolized an entire foal crop. Different stallions were used over the years. In all, 12 different stallions were represented as sires in the foal crops from 1914 through 1925.
Some stallions appear to have been maintained at Hingham for long periods of time before being used. *Deyr's first foal was born in 1910, four years after the importation. Letan was started in service at five years of age. *Houran ws started at stud six years after importation. *Azra's first foal was not born till 1921, 15 yers after the importation. Except for Narkhaleb, Hingham produced its own replacement stallions.
The foundation mares of Hingham were mostly from the Davenport importation of 1906. In addition to these, there were Hamidie Society lines from *Pride, *Galfia, *Obeyran, *Mannaky and *Nejdme. Another non-Davenport element in the Hingham collection was Narkhaleb, of Huntington bloodlines, who was used once in 1918. [See note below. <Bradley also owned several Arabians which are not represented in his production as a breeder. These included Abdallah, *Berid, *Bushra and Jerrede.>] The most famous of the Hingham non-Davenport mares was Domow, who has extremely wide distribution in the pedigrees of American Arabians. Although Domow was registered as of Hingham breeding, her dam *Wadduda was actually shown by Volome I (1913) of the Arabian Horse Club stud books as being owned by Davenport's Armstrong Bedouin Stud, at the time of its preparation, probably 1912. Davenport died in May of that year, so either he or his estate should more properly be considered the breeder of Domow, who was foaled in 1913. After Davenport's death, *Wadduda and Domow both ended up in Hingham Stock Farm ownership. Somewhere along the line, the confusion incidental to the settlement of Davenport's estate must have caused a mix-up in regard to Domow's registration. She is registered several years out of sequence for her dam's foals, and she is the wrong color, being registered as the bay daughter of *Abu Zeyd and *Wadduda, both chestnuts.
Current genetic thought is that it is impossible for two chestnuts to produce a bay. It is well-established that both of Domow's registerd parents were chestnut and that Domow herself was actually bay. The registration of Domow, therefore, must have been mistaken; either there was a switch of foals (which has been suggested), or one of her parents was other than has been described. Over the years, a great deal of time had been spent by various people trying to figure out what Domow's breeding really was without a completely satisfactory answer ever turning up. That did not prevent Domow from being considered a very fine broodmare by the people who had first-hand knowledge of her, nor has it altered the fact that she frequently appears in the pedigrees of excellent Arabian horses.
Although the Hingham Stock Farm is chiefly known for Davenport breeding, the contribution of Bradley's non-Davenport females to his overall record as a breeder was by no means inconsequential. According to the later volumes of the AHC stud books, which sometimes differ slightly from the earliest ones, and excluding Domow as of his breeding, Bradley produced 35 foals from such mares. It is primarily through these foals that the Hamidie Society bloodlines come into the pedigrees of presently living Arabian horses.
Few American breeders have systematically regenerated breeding stock from within their own herds. Peter Bradley was one of the few. As his original mares went out of production, they were replaced with mares of his own breeding. So long has passed since his period of activity as a breeder that it is a matter of conjecture as to how specific matings were planned. There is some evidence of strain breeding, in that certain key mares were bred primarily to stallions of their own or closely related strains. These would have included *Haffia (seven of nine foals), *Jedah (three of five), Amran (six of six), and Sankirah (three of four). However, other matings were more random as far as strain was concerned, and it may well be that all matings were simply scheduled on the basis of visual evaluatin of horses and wisdom gained from past experience. The only instance of inbreeding, in Bradley's Arabian production was Sankirah, who resulted from a mating between *Hamrah and his daughter Moliah. Sankirah was a prolific broodmare, producing a total of 14 registered foals, of which Hanad was the most famous. So it cannot be said that the mare's inbred pedigree caused a loss of vital energy. There are some unfortunate photographs of her, as is the case with many of the early horses. Raswan references her as an example, in the *Wadduda (her granddam) line, of a foal of outstanding qualities and distinctive Arabian character.
Peter Bradley,s characteristic mode of sale was in breeding groups of horses. His most important customer, of course, was Homer Davenport, whose career as an Arabian breeder began with Hamidie Society horses obtained from Bradley. That transaction occurred befor there was an Arabian Horse Registry, and it is impossible to know details of what happened, but we do know that by the time of publication of his 1906-07 "Catalog of World's Fair Arabians." Davenport had in his possession 13 Hamidie Society horses, most of which could have come only from Bradley. The transfer of horses was major for the day, but its greater significance was that it was Davenport's beginning venture in Arabian horses.
In 1917 there was a major sale of nine head to Tetsuma Akahoshi of Japan, who also purchased three Arabians on the West Coast. The Hingham horses sold were Aared, Ain, Gharah, Hartebah, Kassab, Khyma, Satwan, Sharmah and Sugra. These American Arabians were evidently bred for some time in Japan. Volume III (1927) of the AHC stud books indicates that as of its date, Akahoshi still owned four stallions and eight mares. (Could any of these bloodlines have gotten into Emperor Hirohito's white horse?) It is at least a reasonable assumption that the exportation of these horses from the U.S. at a time when Arabian breeding here was in a formative stage had some effect because it removed foundation bloodlines from breeding in this country. The most noted animal in this exportation was Aared, who has established one of the strongest female lines in current American breeding through her daughter Sedjur, from whom so much descends.
A major breeding group went to F.E. Lewis of the Diamond Bar Ranch of Spadra, CA; in 1918. This group included two prime stallions in Letan and Harara, and some of the choicest Hingham mares. Included were Adouba, Freda, Hasiker, Tamarinsk, Kosair, Saleefy, Samit, Sedjur and Moliah. A colt, Ziki, and two filies, Medina and Mecca, were sold in utero. The Lewis horses were maintained for a time as a breeding group. they were eventually dispersed primarily in the California area, with most of them going to Kellogg's where they contributed to the fine early history of that ranch. The most famous horse produced by Lewis from this group was Antez.
Another sale with a California distination was made in 1925 when Chauncey D. Clarke enjoyed a brief ownership of Arabian horses. Mr. Clarke had obtained the services of a young German immigrant, Carl Schmidt, who had lived with the Bedouins of Arabia and was beginning a career with Arabian horses in the United States. Schmidt later became famous as Carl Raswan <RJKelloggDav.html>. He was the founding manager of the Kellogg Ranch, made its best importation, and served as a breeding consultant to countless breeders, among them W.R.Brown, J.M.Dickinson, the Selby Stud, Carl and Jane Asmis, Al-Marah, Wayne Van Vleet, Alice Payne <APRaswanObit.html>, John Douthit, James Wrench, the Otts, Margaret Shuey, Craver Farms <http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/3134/index.html>, Dr. and Mrs K.F.Krausnick, and Dr. J.L.Doyle. In addition, he wrote extensively and was published in several languages.
Acting as Clarke's agent, he purchased a breeding group of horses from Peter Bradley. Included were *Deyr, Amham, Arak, Fasal, Jadaan, Jeremah, Mizuel, Sherlet, Sotamm and Killah. An additional horse of similar breeding, Ben Hur, was purchased from Albert W. Harris. Mr. Clarke was unable to continue ownership of these horses, and they were sold within the yrear of their purchase by him to W.K.Kellogg, with Carl Schmidt (Raswan) going along to set up the Kellogg Arabian enterprise.
THE MAJOR SALE of Peter Bradley's career as an Arabian horse breeder was to John C. Winant, twice the governor of New Hampshire and ambassador to Great Britain. The sale occurred during 1921. It involved the central part of the Hingham breeding band, including the premier stallion *Hamrah as well as *Azra and Maleik. Females in the sale included *Haffia, Domow, Halbe, Hegra, Killah (re-transferred later to Hingham and on to C.D.Clarke), Meleky, Morfda, Poka, Saba,Sankirah, Sheria and Tehama. The total number involved was at least 21 head.
On December 31st of 1921--the year of their purchase from Peter Bradley -- the Winant horses were transferred to the ownership of Mrs. John Winant. She continued in ownership of some of them, and in Volume III (1927) of the AHC stud book is shown as owning four stallions and one mare. Most of Mrs. Winant's horses, however, were sold to Morton S. Hawkins of Portland, IN, in 1922. The total number transferred is not clear from available records, but the sale was a major transaction, including *Azra, *Haffia, Dahura, Domoude, Domow, <HanadLegacyRJ.html>(in utero), Hegra, Maleik, Morfda, Poka, Saba, Sankirah, Tabab and Tehama.
Whatever Hawkins' plans for the horses might have been, they did not go well. Before they could really get started, he was sent to Federal prison. His horses were scattered into various hands, and their welfare suffered. Mr. H.V.Tormohlen, a well-known breeder who lived in the same small town as Hawkins and knew firsthand of the events, said that some of Hawkins' horses became debilitated to the point that there were deaths on the roadside as they were taken to new custody. Ownership of surviving horses was transferred for small amounts such as would be required to pay outstanding feed bills. According to Forrest Lee Thompson, who took notes in 1931 on a conversation with Dr. Charles D. Pettigrew, Dr. Pettigrew bought Sankirah and her suckling foal Hanad in the winter of 1922-23 without papers for $300 in one-dollar bills plus $100 for help in getting the mare and foal out of a "stump" pasture in which the tree stumps were four feet high. Hanad was so weak that he could not stand and had to be strapped to a drag to pull him out of the pasture. (18) In spite of such a dismal start in life, Hanad went on to become one of the noted performance and breeding stallions of his time, and even today some of his descendants show a certain flair that comes only from him.
The Hawkins venture was a dissater for Hawkins and horses alike, but it had major consequences for the development of Arabian horse breeding in America. The end result was that important Bradley bloodlines were transplanted into the Midwest where they provided foundation stock for a whole new group of breeding programs which are represented today in a major portion of domestic American breeding, <PartDav88.html> Among breeders who obtained breding stock form this source were Tormohlen, Jewett, George, Pettigrew and Harris.
For some of the horses which had originally gone to Winant, the route of ownership led to Hawkins, then to others in the Midwest and finally to the West Coast where such horses as Hanad, Killah, Poka, Saba and Sankirah continued as representatives of Peter Bradley's breeding along with the horses that came by way of Chauncey Clarke and F.E.Lewis. The consequence of Bradley's practise of selling horses as breeding groups was that these groups tended to stay intact after the initial sale. The concentration of Bradley breeding in California developed into an amazingly durable breeding pattern which preserved seed stock from which Bradley's breeding continues even today. There are about 400 living Arabians which trace entirely to his Hingham Stock Farm bloodlines. they include all the living "Davenoprt" Arabians, plus a few others which also trace to Bradley's Hamidie Society horses. These horses constitute the oldest closed breeding group of American Arabian horses and one of the oldest in the world.
One of the criteria for evaluating a breeder's success is to consider how well the mares have been used: were the foals as good as their dams? In Peter Bradley's case, this is a difficult question to answer because we have few physical details about his foundation horses and their first generation of foals. For most of these horses, thee are only names, a little pedigree information, and sometimes a few pictures. Nothing is known of many foals except that they were registered. Some may have been sold as riding and driving horses. Some were sold abroad. Fortunately, others come to us in ways that can be traced, and of these there are some which are famous both as individuals and for what they have contributed to the breed. Hanad, Jadaan, Letan, Fasal, Harara, Sedjur: these were horses which would be ornaments for any breeding program. For each of them, there were others less well-known but perhaps of equal merit.
In a more general sense, Bradley's breeding can be evaluated from its overall contribution to the development of the Arabian horse in America. Almost all his production was either of Davenport or part-Davenport bloodlines. Furthermore, most Davenport elements in modern pedigrees get there by way of breeding at Hingham Stock Farm. Therefore, the percentage of modern Arabians tracing to Hingham breeding is nearly the same as that tracing to Davenport breeding, which is estimated to be approximately 90%, just over the 12% level per pedigree (see "The Common Denominator, " p. 342, the March '84 issue). Because Bradley's production included a number of very successful non-Davenport lines, the average figures at which his horses are represented would be slightly higher than those given for exclusively Davenport bloodlines.
Transposing these percentages into physical terms, if all the horses at a modern Class A horse show which trace to the breeding of Peter Bradley were magically to disappear, few animals would be left - not enough to fill many classes. They would be different from what we are used to seeing. There would not be the influences of breeding animals like Alla Amarward, Fadjur, Saki, Ferzon, Jurneeka, Garaff, Radio, Rafferty, Kimfa, Ben Rabba, The Judge, Bay-Abi, Khemosabi, Ibn Hanrah, Tsali, Hanida, and a host of others which are a precious resource in contemporary American breeding. Bradley breeding is not a major theme in the pedigrees of all these animals, but it is nevertheless present at a significant level, and they would be different individauls -- breeding, moving, and acting differently -- without it.
If it were not for the activities of Peter Bradley, the Arabian horse would still have been popular in the United States, but there is no question that different modes of developement would have been taken. Without Bradley's supporting influence during the first years of this century, the Arabian Horse Club of America would probably have been formed much later than it was. (The Arab Horse Society in Britain was not founded until 1918.) If establishment of the Arabian Horse Club had been delayed substantially, the early breeding programs of Randolph Huntington <Huntington.html> and Spencer Borden might have been lost, and organization support would have been lacking for newcomers interested in the Arabian horse. Perhaps a less vigorously organized breed would have failed to attract the interest of such key new breeders as W.R.Brown and A.W. Harris, who followed Bradley in succession as presidents of the Arabian Horse Club.
Without Bradley as financial backer, it is unlikely that the Homer Davenport importation from Arabia would have been made or that a number of Davenport's other contributins to the breed would have occurred. Without the steady, long-term commitment of Peter Bradley toward its continuity as a breeding group, the breeding stock of the Davenport importation would have been mostly or completely lost, as would that of the Hamidie Hippodrome Society. The mares of the "unimproved" desert breeding represented in the Davenport and Hamidie importations would then most likely have been crossed with more sophisticated stock coming to this country from Europe. Resulting foals would no doubt have also been lovely. But, by staying within the parameters of close-up desert origin. Bradley was able to pass on the full measure of strength of that breeding to the next generatin of breeders. Maybe that is one of the reasons why so many of the foundation lines with which he worked have survived into modern pedigrees.
The odd thing is that, for all his importance, we do not know much about Peter Bradley as a man or a horseman. What he looked for in a horse and what he felt he was doing are mysteries to us. Maybe he acted out of great wisdom, but he could have produced very nearly the same results by lucking into a good start and then simply being too conservative or unconcerned to make a change. The closest parallel in more recent Arabian breeding is to the late Henry Babson, who was also a great breeder. Like Bradley, he had unlimited wealth as regards horses, but did not choose to spend it lavishly. Like Bradley, he was primarily identified with the developement of one breeding group of foundation-quality bloodlines, although both men were also associated with other excellent lines. Both men headed our national Arabian horse registry in their times. Neither of them cared about showing or public recognition. Both men had self-regenerating breeding programs which lasted for decades with minor changes but few major ones. Both men delegated day-to-day operation of their breeding ventures to others.
For the most part, Peter Bradley is remembered as the silent partner who financed the Homer Davenport importation from Arabia in 1906. Maybe there is a fine stone memorial to him someplace, but, if so, few Arabian breeders have ever heard of it. He could not have done all that he did for Arabian breeding in America if he had not had ideals in his horses and hopes for how those horses would fit into the future. Those ideals and hopes are now embodied in the Arabians of today and the people who have them. They are a memorial: a living, beautiful one, much in the thoughts of man.
But, after 90 years, hardly anyone remembers Peter Bradley's name.
DICTIONARY OF REFERENCED HORSES
Aared 91 (*Obeyran x *Wadduda): 1909 grey Saqlawiyah-Al Abd mare.
*Abbeian 111: db 1889 grey Abayyan-Dahwan stallion, imported by H. Davenport in 1906
Abbya: db 1885 black Kuhaylan mare, imported by the Hamidie Society in 1893.
Abdallah 52 (*Bedr x *Jamila): 1897 bay Saqlawi-Jidran gelding.
Abeyan: db 1888 grey Abayyan-Dahra stallion, imported by the Hamidie Society in 1893.
*Abu Zeyd 82 (Mesaoud x Rose Diamond): 1904 chestnut Kuhaylan-Ajuz stallion.
Adouba 270 (*Hamrah x Meleky): 1917 bay Hadbah-Inzihiyah mare.
Ain 148 (*Hamrah x Dahura): 1915 bay Kuhaylan-Ajuz stallion.
Akid 387 (*Hamrah X Amran): 1919 bay Saqlawi-Al Abd stallion.
Alla Amarward 1140 (Stambul x Makina): 1935 chestnut Kuhaylan-Haifi stallion.
Amham 123 (*Hamrah x Dahura): 1920 grey Kuhaylat-Ajuz mare.
Amran 123 (*Deyr x *Wadduda): 1920 chestnut Saqlawiyah-Al Abd mare.
Antez 448 (Harara x Moliah): 1921 chestnut Saqlawi-Al Abd stallion.
Araby: db imported by the Hamidie Society in 1893
Arak 269 (*Hamrah x *Haffia): 1917 bay Abayyah-Sharrakiyah mare.
Bay-Abi 12335 (Errabi x Angyl): 1957 bay Kuhaylan-Ajuz stallion
Ben Hur 513 (*El Bulad x Rhua): 1923 grey Saqlawi-Jidran stallion
Ben Rabba (Ringo) 29921 (Aurab x Rollicka): 1964 chestnut Hadban-Inzihi stallion.
*Berid 80 (Daoud x Bereyda): 1908 grey Saqlawi-Jidran stallion.
Bint Sahara 2394 (Farawi x Bint Sedjur): 1942 grey Saqlawiyah-Al Abd mare.
*Bushra 23 (Azrek x Bozra): 1892 bay Saqlawi-Jidran mare.
Carolstone 637 (Kilham x Dehaff): 1925 chestnut Abayyah-Sharrakiyah mare.
Dahura 90 (*El Bulad x Nanshan): 1909 grey Kuhaylat-Ajuz mare
Dehahah 136 (*Hamrah x Dahura): 1914 grey Kuhaylat-Ajuz mare.
*Deyr 33: db 1904 chestnut Abayyan-Sharrak stallion, imported by H. Davenport in 1906.
Domow 267 (*Abu Zeyd X *Wadduda): 1912 bay Saqlawiyah-Al Abd mare (see text).
*El Bulad 29: db 1903 grey Jilfan-Stam El Bulad stallion, imported by H. Davenport in 1906
Fadjur 7668 (Fadheilan X Bint Sahara): 1952 bay Saqlawi-Al Abd stallion
Fartak 141 (*El Bulad X *Farha): 1913 grey Mu'niqi-Sbaili stallion.
Fasal 330 (*Hamrah x Amran): 1918 bay Saqlawiyah-Al Abd mare.
Fersara 4104 (Ferseyn x Bint Sahara): 1947 grey Saqlawiyah-Al Abd mare.
Ferzon 7723 (Ferneyn x Fersara): 1952 grey Saqlawi-Al Abd stallion.
Freda 20 (*Obeyran x Zitra): 1903 brown Hamdaniyah-Simriyah mare.
*Galfia 225 db 1887 chestnut Hamdaniyah-Simriyah mare.
Garaff 5021 (*Raffles x Woengran): 1948 bay Saqlawi-Al Abd stallion.
Gharah 142 (*Hamrah x Dahura): 1913 grey Kuhaylat-Ajuz mare.
*Haffia 45 (a Hamdani-Simri x *Abeyah): db 1906 chestnut.
Halbe 334 (*Hamrah x Domow): 1918 bay Saqlawiyah-Al Abd mare.
Halool: db 1886 bay Kuhaylan-Ras el Fedawi stallion, imported by the Hamidie Society in 1893.
*Hamrah 28 (a Hamdani-Simri x *Urfah) db 1904 bay Saqlawi-Jedran stallion, imported by H. Davenport in 1906.
Hanad 489 (*Deyr x Sankirah): 1922 chestnut Saqlawi-Al Abd stallion
Hanida 4698 (Hanad x Gafsa): 1948 chestnug Saqlawi-Jidraniyah mare
Harara 122 (*Deyr x *Haffia): 1912 chestnut Abayyan-Sharrak stallion.
Hartebah 145 (*El Bulad x *Haffia): 1913 grey Abayyah-Sharrakiyah mare.
Hasiker 268(*Hamrah x *Reshan): 1914 gey Kuhaylah-Haifiyah mare.
Hegra 487 (*Aziza x Domow): 1922 grey Saqlawiyah-Al Abd mare.
*Houran 26 db1904 bay Kuhaylan-Tamri stallion, imported by H. Davenport in 1906.
Ibn Hanrah 6725 (Hanrah x Ronara): 1952 bay Saqlawi-Jidran stallion.
Jadaan 196 (*Abbeian x Amran): 1916 grey Saqlawi-Al Abd stallion.
*Jedah 44: cb 1902 brown Hamdaniyah-Simriyah mare, imported by H. Davenport in 1906
Jeremah 144 (*Hamrah x Nanshan): 1913 grey Kuhaylan-Ajuz stallion
Jerrede 84 (*Euphrates x *Nejdme): 1910 bay Kuhaylan-Ajuz stallion.
Jurneeka 13435 (Fadjur x Fadneeka): 1958 bay Saqlawiyah-Al Abd mare.
Kassab 158 (*Abbeian x Amran): 1915 grey Saqlawiyah-Al Abd mare.
Khemosabi 45471 (Amerigo x Jurneeka): 1967 bay Saqlawi-Al Abd stallion.
Khyma 159 (*Hamrah x Abbess): 1915 grey Mu'niqiyah-Sbailiyah mare.
Killah 103 (*Gomusa x *Hadba): 1911 bay Hadbah-Inzihiyah mare.
Kimfa 10836 (Mustafah x *Iorana): 1956 chestnut Kuhaylan-Ajuz stallion.
Kokhle 336 (*Hamrah x *Farha): 1918 grey Mu'niqiyah-Sbailiyah mare.
Kosair 138 (*Hamrah x *Jedah): 1914 chestnut Hamdaniyah-Simriyah mare.
Koubishan: cb 1888 bay Kubayshan-Al Umayr stallion, imported by the Hamidie Society in 1893.
Kuzoiv db 1887 bay Kuhaylan-Mukhalladi stallion, imported by the Hamidie Society in 1893.
Letan 86 (*Muson x *Jedah): 1909 grey Hamdani-Simri stallion.
Maleik 51 (*Haleb x *Abeyah): 1908 bay Abayyan-Sharrak stallion.
*Mannaky 294: db 1888 chestnut Mu'niki-Saluki stallion, imported by the Hamidie Soceity in 1893. (Cataloged by H. Davenport and the Tattersalls' sale as a Mu'niqi; registered, evidently in error, as a Hamdani-Simri.)
Mannaky Jr 292: (*Mannaky x *Galfia): 1895 chestnut Hamdani-Simri stallion.
Meleky 63 (*Haleb x *Hadba): 1907 brown Hadbah-Inzihiyah mare.
Miggour: cb 1887 bay stallion, imported by the Hamidie Society in 1893.
Mizuel 388 (Narkhaleb x Sankirah): 1919 chestnut saqlawi-Al-Abd stallion.
Moliah 109 (*Hamrah x *Wadduda): 1911 chestnut Saqlawiyah-Al Abd mare.
Morfda 203 (*Hamrah x Dahura): 1916 grey Kuhaylat-Ajuz mare.
Nanshan 13 (*Garaveen x *Nejdme): 1902 grey Kuhaylat-Ajuz mare.
Narkhaleb 114 (Leucosia x Khaletta): 1911 chestnut Mu'niqi-Hadruj stallion.
*Nejdme 1: db 1887 grey Kehaylat-Ajuz mare, imported by the Hamidie Society in 1893.
*Obeyran 2: cb 1879 grey Saqlawi-Ubayri stallion, imported by the Hamidie Society in 1893. (Cataloged by H. Davenport and the Tattersalls' sale as foaled in 1879; registered as foaled in 1889.)
Poka 438 (*Hamrah x Sheria): 1921 chestnut Saqlawiyah-Jidraniyah mare.
*Pride 321: db 1893 chestnut Mu'niqiyah-Salukiyah mare, imported by the Hamidie Society in 1893.
Radio 17970 (Ferzon x Radiant): 1960 grey Kuhaylan-Ajuz stallion.
Rafferty 8658 (*Raffles x Masrufa): 1953 grey Saqlawi-Jidran stallion.
Ribal 397 (*Berk x *Rijma) 1920 chestnut Kuhaylan-Ajuz stallion.
Saba 437 (*Deyr x *Haffia): 1921 chestnut Abayyah-Sharrakiyah mare.
Saki 6248 (Ferseyn x Ferdia): 1960 grey Kuhaylan-Kurush mare.
Saleefy 70 (*Haleb x *Urfah): 1907 brown Saqlawiyah-Jidraniyah mare.
Samit 153 (*Kusof x *Haffia): 1914 chestnut Abayyah-Sharrakiyah mare.
Sankirah 149 (*Hamrah x Moliah): 1915 bay Saqlawiyah Al-'Abd mare.
Satwan 100 (*Deyr x *Haffia): 1911 chestnut Abayyah-Sharrakiyah mare.
Sheba 19 (Mannaky Jr. x *Pride): 1902 chestnut Mu'niqiyah-Saluki mare.
Sheria 110 (*Abbeian x *Urfah): 1911 grey Saqlawiyah-Jedraniyah mare.
Sherlet 339 (Letan x Sheria): 1911 grey Saqlawiyah-Jedraniyah mare.
Sirhal: db 1886 grey stallion, imported by the Hamidie Society in 1893.
Sotamm 389 (*Hamrah x *Farha): 1919 bay Mu'niqiyah-Sbailiyah mare.
Sugra 140 (*Hamrah x Meleky); 1913 bay Hadbah-Inzihiyah mare.
Tabab 441 (*Deyr x Domow): 1921 bay Saqlawi-Al Abd stallion.
Tamarinsk 331 (*Hamrah x *Werdi): 1918 chestnut Kuhaylah-Kurush mare.
Tehama 490 (*Deyr x *Haffia): 1922 chestnut Abayyah-Sharrakiyah mare.
Terina 102 (*Hamrah x Meleky): 1911 bay Hadbah-Inzihiyah mare.
The Judge 47461 (*Bask x Wirdih Jameel): 1968 chestnut Kuhaylan-Kurush stallion.
The Real McCoy (Silky Rief) 17362 (Aarief x Fersara): 1960 grey Saqlawi-Al Abd stallion.
Tsali (Ibn Hanad x My Bonnie Nylon): 1952 chestnut Mu'niqi-Hadruj stallion.
*Urfah 40: db 1898 bay Saqlawiyah-Jidraniyah mare, imported by H. Davenport in 1906.
*Wadduda 30: db 1899 chestnut Saqlawiyah-Al Abd mare, imported by H. Davenport in 1906.
*Werdi 41: db 1903 chestnut Kuhaylah-Kurush mare, imported by H. Davenport in 1906.
Zariffey: db 1888 black Kuhaylan mare, imported by the Hamidie Society in 1893.
Ziki 415 (*Hamrah x Samit): 1919 bay Abayyan-Sharrak stallion.
Zitra 68 (*Mannaky x *Galfia): 1896 chestnut Hamdaniyah-Simriyah mare.
FOOTNOTES
1. Davenport, Homer: Letter to Tom Davidson, July 9, 1906. Courtesy of E.J.Hathaway.
2. Davenport, Homer: My Quest of the Arabian Horse. B.W. Dodge & Co., New York, 1909, p. 7.
3. "Breeder's Gazette" of Chicago report of the Tattersall's auction of January 10, 1894, as given in Conn, George H.: The Arabian Horse in America, A.S. Barnes and Company, New York, 1957, p. 171.
4. Huot, Leland and Powers, Alfred: Homer Davenport of Silverton, West Shore Press, Bingen, Washington, 1973, p. 171
5. Davenport: Quest, p. 273
6. Davenport: Davidson letter.
7. Davenport: Quest, p. 14.
8. Ibid., p. 12.
9. Borden, Spencer: Letter to W.R.Brown, February 12, 1918.
10. Brown, W.R.: Letter to Col. Howard Stout Neilson, February 25, 1920.
11. Raswan, Carl: The Raswan Index, I-Tex Publishing Co., Inc., Ames, Iowa, 1969, entry #2000.
12. Zaher, Dr. Ameen: Arabian Horse Breeding and the Arabians of America, Cairo University Press, 1961, p. 67.
13. Raswan: Index, entry #3464.
14. Davenport, Homer: "Davenport Desert Arabian Stud," catalog privately published, 1909-1910, p. 32.
15. Ibid., pp. 32-32
16. Zaher: Breeding, p. 70
17. Raswan: Index, entry #10829.
18. Thompson, Forrest Lee: Private commication with Charles Craver.
19. Payne, Pat: "The F.E. Lewis Horses," typewritten manuscript, 1970.
[The Forgotten Man - Peter Bradley's Role in Early American Breeding, by Charles and Jeanne Craver, Arabian Horse World July 1984]5587 M ii Robert S. Bradley was born in 1856 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. 5588 F iii Abby A. Bradley was born in 1853 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. 5589 M iv William Lambert Bradley , Jr. was born 1 on 21 Mar 1857 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. He died 2 on 14 Mar 1862 in Meridien, Connecticut, USA. He was buried in Walnut Grove Cem., Meridien, Connecticut, USA. 5590 M v Frederick Bradley was born 1 on 20 Apr 1863 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. He died 2 on 27 Jun 1863 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. He was buried in Walnut Grove Cem., Meridien, Connecticut, USA.
4248. Nathaniel Lyman Bradley (Abigail Ann Atwater , Samuel Atwater , Abraham Atwater , Abigail Bradley , Nathaniel Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 1 on 27 Dec 1829 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. Nathaniel was employed 2 as in Treasurer, Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Co..
Nathaniel married 1 Harriet E. "Hattie" Peck daughter of Selden Peck and Lucy Hooker Hart on 25 Oct 1859 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA.
They had the following children:
5591 M i Clarence Peck Bradley was born 1 on 9 Jul 1862 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. He died 2 on 10 Mar 1934 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. He was buried in Walnut Grove Cem., Meridien, Connecticut, USA. Clarence was employed 3 as Director, Bradley & Hubbard manufacturing Co..
"Mr. Bradley is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity and his membership in that order includes all of the several branches in Connecticut. He is a member of Meridian Lodge, 77, A. F. & A. M.; Keystone Chapter, 27, R. A. M.; Hamilton Council, 22, R. & S. M.; St. Elmo Commandery, 9, K. T.; also of the Scottish Rite bodies of New Haven, and of Lafayette Consistory of Bridgeport where he received his thirty-second degree. He is also a member of Pyramid Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Bridgeport."
"In 1885, he was elected one of the directors of the Bradley & Hubbard Mfg. Co., in which he has been ever since a factor in its affairs. His success in matters of finance has won him the confidence also of other manufacturing concerns where his counsel and judgment are appreciated. He is also one of the directors of the City Savings Bank."
4252. Ella Judson (Lois Atwater , Enos Atwater , Jacob Atwater , Abigail Bradley , Nathaniel Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born on 22 Feb 1809 in Mantua, Ohio, USA. He died on 22 Oct 1872 in Byron Twp., Kent Co., Michigan, USA.
Ella married Margaret (Nancy) Harmon daughter of Jospeh Harmon in 1837 in Kent Co., Michigan, USA. Margaret was born in 1808/1809 in Ohio, USA. She died on 25 May 1856 in Byron Twp., Kent Co., Michigan, USA.
They had the following children:
+ 5592 F i Caroline Judson + 5593 F ii Emeline Judson 5594 M iii Harmon Judson was born on 22 Feb 1843 in Byron Twp., Kent Co., Michigan, USA. He died on 11 Aug 1881. + 5595 M iv Washington Judson 5596 F v Sarah Ann Judson was born on 12 Mar 1849 in Byron Twp., Kent Co., Michigan, USA. She died on 5 May 1852 in Byron Twp., Kent Co., Michigan, USA. 5597 M vi Lewis Judson was born on 2 Dec 1852 in Byron Twp., Kent Co., Michigan, USA. He died on 12 Jan 1917 in Byron Twp., Kent Co., Michigan, USA.
4267. Elizabeth Bradley Durand (Charlotte E. Bradley , Mary Ball , Abigail Atwater , Abigail Bradley , Nathaniel Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born about 1827.
Elizabeth married William I. Townsend son of William K. Townsend. William was born in (of) New York, New York, USA.
They had the following children:
5598 F i Lillie Townsend was born about 1850. She died 1 in 1859.
4268. Roxanna Brown (Prudence Church , Lucy Blakeslee , Anna Bradley , Nathaniel Bradley , Nathaniel Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 1 on 14 Jun 1834 in Blodgett Mills, Cortland Co., New York, USA. She died 2 on 14 May 1917 in Cortland, Cortland Co., New York, USA.
Roxanna married 1 Samuel Davis on 19 Feb 1857. Samuel was born 2 on 19 Aug 1821 in Norway, New York, USA. He died 3 on 16 Jan 1894 in Solon Twp., Cortland CO., New York, USA.
They had the following children:
+ 5599 M i William Church Davis
4272. Simeon A. Lyon (Alanson Lyon , Martha Bronson , Abigail Brockett , Samuel Brockett , Sarah Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born in 1799 in Bennington, Vermont, USA. He died on 26 Mar 1877 in Birdsall, New York, USA.
Simeon married Lucinda Smith daughter of Russell Smith in 1819. Lucinda was born in 1800 in Massachusetts, USA. She died before 1870 in Naples, New York, USA.
They had the following children:
5600 M i Silas Lyon was born in 1820 in Naples, New York, USA. 5601 F ii Lovina Lyon was born in 1824 in Naples, New York, USA. 5602 M iii Hamilton Lyon was born in 1825 in Naples, New York, USA. 5603 F iv Huldah Lyon was born in 1826 in Naples, New York, USA. 5604 M v Simeon Smith Lyon was born on 2 Dec 1828 in Naples, New York, USA. 5605 F vi Margaret Lyon was born in 1830 in Naples, New York, USA. + 5606 M vii James Nelson Lyon 5607 M viii William Henry Lyon was born in 1833 in Naples, New York, USA. 5608 M ix Russell P. Lyon was born in 1835 in Naples, New York, USA. 5609 M x Leonard W. Lyon was born in 1840 in Naples, New York, USA. 5610 M xi Harvey Lyon was born in 1840 in Naples, New York, USA. 5611 M xii Orin Lyon was born in 1843 in Naples, New York, USA. 5612 F xiii Mary S. Lyon was born in 1843 in Naples, New York, USA.
4279. Nathaniel Mix Atwater (Sarah Thomas , Sarah Mansfield , Sarah Brockett , Samuel Brockett , Sarah Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 1 on 27 Feb 1798 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He died 2 on 17 Aug 1825.
Nathaniel married Rhoda Curtis.
They had the following children:
+ 5613 F i Sarah Thomas Atwater
4282. Charles Bradley Varnum (Bradley Varnum , Bradley Varnum , Abiah Mitchell , Martha Bradley , Joseph Bradley , Daniell , Danyell ) was born on 5 Sep 1815. He died on 14 Oct 1861 in Dracut, Massachusetts, USA.
Charles married Rebecca Gage on 8 Apr 1844. Rebecca was born in 1819. She died on 3 Apr 1896.
They had the following children:
+ 5614 M i Joseph Butterfield Varnum 5615 M ii Joseph Butterfield Varnum was born on 13 Jan 1845. He died on 8 Mar 1847. + 5616 M iii Charles Frederick Varnum 5617 M iv George Cornell Varnum was born on 19 Mar 1850. He died on 22 Sep 1857. 5618 M v Albert Henry Varnum was born on 4 Sep 1852. He died on 25 Jul 1874. 5619 M vi Edwin Bradley Varnum was born on 11 Jul 1855. He died on 30 Jul 1857. 5620 M vii Edwin Bradley Varnum was born on 6 Aug 1857. He died on 30 Mar 1863.
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