Dr. Ernest Smith Bradford Ph.D.

   Another name for Ernest was Ernest Smith.

   FamilySearch ID: K2FH-FCG. Find a Grave ID: 105363886.

  General Notes:

Family moved to Wisconsin in 1880 and Ernest attended school in Hammond, Wisconsin. He legally adopted his mother's maiden name on August 18, 1906 in Madison, Wisconsin claiming that the reason was Smith was too common a name and he was having trouble with his mail as result. The family story is that his wife to be thought it a too common name. The name was changed the week before he got married.

There is an extensive biography of Ernest in the National Cyclopaedia of American Biography.

During WWI he was a statistician for the US Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp in 1918-19 and from that time until the end of his life he served as an advisory economist and statistician to various industries and governmental agencies. In 1930 he was named head of the Bureau of Business Research (later the Bernard Baruch School of Business) at the College of the City of New York, which post he held until he reached the mandatory retirement age of seventy in 1947. Thereafter he joined the faculty of Manhattan College, Bronx, New York until 1957. Author of many books and studies as well as a very active citizen in the public and civic affairs of his city of residence, New Rochelle, New York.

  Research Notes:

Diaries are in a special section of the University of Oregon Library, Eugene, Oregon.
https://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/to8ro2/CP71266915460001451
emailed them via form to reqest extended description.

  Events

• Occupation. Economist

• Education. Univ Of Wisconsin: BA/1897, Grad Work, 1904-06

• residence, 1880, Hammond, St. Croix County, WI. ³⁶⁸

• Fact 1: Sang at the state Prohibition Party convention, 24 May 1888, Madison, Dane County, WI. ³⁶⁹ Calling themselves The Badger State Trio, the "...three little sons of Secretary J.B. Smith, opened with a son, which was given due applause."
(Opened the afternoon session of the convention on Thursday.)

• Authored: "High Joe" ; or, The logger's story, 1892, Madison, Dane County, WI. Prohibitionist book: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015071648567&view=1up&seq=3

• residence, 1900, Madison, Dane County, WI. ³⁷⁰ 127 W. Gilman St.

• residence: 791 Lawrence, 1904, Appleton, Outagamie Co., Wisconsin. ³⁷¹ Teacher high school

• Name Change: From Ernest Smith to Ernest Smith Bradford, 1906. ³⁷² This was copied in many newspapers around the state at the time.

• Education: Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1911. ³⁷³

• Membership: Cosmo Club, 1917, Washington, D.C. ³⁷⁴ Also New York City.

• residence: 50 Argyle St, 1930, New Rochelle, Westchester County, NY. ³⁶³

• residence: 50 Argyle St, 1936, New Rochelle, Westchester County, NY. ³⁶⁴

• residence: 50 Argyle St, 1950, New Rochelle, Westchester County, NY. ³⁶⁵

• residence: 50 Argyle, 1952, New Rochelle, Westchester County, NY. ³⁶⁶

Ernest married Florence Beatrice Mott, daughter of Wesley Mott and Harriet Lavinia Porter, 23 Aug 1906 in Neenah, Winnebago Co., WI.³⁶² (Florence Beatrice Mott was born 10 Aug 1872 in Neenah, Winnebago Co., WI, died 22 Feb 1954 in Briarcliff, Westchester Co., NY and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Neenah, Winnebago Co., WI.)

  Marriage Notes:

Handwritten note of their daughter incorrectly states the year as 1905.