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Excerpt from History of the Ball Family: Genealogy of the New Haven Branch, Allen Ball and Some of His Descendants, 1638-1864 Leonard Abraham Bradley was a descendant of Allen Ball through Mary Ball (daughter of Deacon Stephen Ball), who married Abraham Bradley, his grandfather. Abram Bradley, as he was generally known, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, March 14th, 1833, and graduated at Yale College in the Class of 1855, of which he was the Vice-Secretary for many years. After studying for a few months at the Union Theological Seminary of New York, he decided to follow the law as his profession. He graduated at the Yale Law School, '55-56, and was admitted to the Bar Association of New York in 1858, and to the Connecticut Bar in 1870. He resided in New York for thirty years and was for a long time in the office of Strong & Cadwalader, whose Senior partner, Mr. Charles E.Strong, was his cousin. Mr. Bradley was a well known Real Estate specialist. He never married and passed away in New Haven, April 18th, 1898. Mr. Bradley commenced his genealogical studies soon after leaving College. This Ms of the Ball Genealogy, dated October 21st, 1864, was the second of his studies on the subject, and it seems to have been then completed and ready for the press. Just about that period he began the study of the Bradley Family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.