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...youth of nineteen possessed a knack for writing, and despite his overwhelming drawback of poor health determined to educate himself and apply his talent in examining the lives of the great. Retiring to a quiet country town be began a career which has won for the name Gamaliel Bradford international recognition as one of the biographers...
...discriminating scholar, Gamaliel Bradford is noted chiefly for his development of "psychography," as he calls it, a method of biography which discarding, as far as possible, chronology and external facts seeks only to reveal the innermost character of the subject. His admiration of Saint-Beuve was shown early in his widely acclaimed works on Emerson, Lee, and Pepys; ever since that time, with amazing versatility, he has continued to lay bare the souls of obscure and misunderstood characters. Despite justified charges of superficiality, his popularity attracted imitators, but the peculiar intimacy of his style defied duplication; his creation has remained...
...host to small groups of distinguished friends who enjoyed leisurely hours of pleasant reading. His courageous struggle against fragile health gives proof of praiseworthy perseverance; his occasional attempts at fiction and poetry reveal an attractively human weakness. A refined and keen judgment coupled with a dignified scholarly career mark Gamaliel Bradford as an unusually attractive character, well worthy of the high esteem he enjoyed as a biographer...
...never missed one. In 1912 as the vice-presidential nominee of his party he went down in defeat with William Howard Taft. In 1920 as the candidate of the New York delegation to the Chicago convention, he got 69½ votes for the presidential nomination that eventually went to Warren Gamaliel Harding...
Died. Frederick O'Brien, 62, author (White Shadows in the South Seas) ; of heart disease ; in Sausalito, Calif. He once reported for Warren Gamaliel Harding's Marion Daily Star at $9 per week...