Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. was born 20 December 1892 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States to Frederick Josiah Bradlee I (1866-1951) and Elizabeth Whitwell Thomas (1868-1952) and died 28 April 1970 Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of unspecified causes. He married Josephine de Gersdorff (1896-1975) 3 July 1917 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Biography
The fourth and the firstborn of Frederick Josiah Bradlee I and Elizabeth Whitwell Thomas was Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. who was born on 20 Dec 1892 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts and died on 28 Apr 1970 most likely at his house in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. On 3 Jul 1917 in Beverly he married Josephine de Gersdorff who was born 18 Jun 1896 in Manhattan, New York, USA to Carl de Gersdorff, Esq. and Helen Suzette Crowninshield and died on 15 Oct 1975 in Beverly. Frederick and Josephine are both buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. In 1900 he was aged 7 and living with his parents at 59 Chastant Street, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts and going to school. In 1908 he was at St. Mark’s School in Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. In 1910 he was living at West Cedar Street in Boston, Sufffolk County, Massachusetts with his parents.
On 5 Jun 1917 he joined the army in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts as a second lieutenant at the start of World War I, however he never went overseas. In 1920 he was living at Beacon Street, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts and working as a clerk for a bank. He arrived on 12 Aug 1928 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts on the ship Scythia coming from Liverpool, England. In 1930 he was renting a house living on block 1320 at 267 Beacon Street, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; his home value was worth $300.00. In 1940 he was still living at 267 Beacon Street, Boston. The value of his house was worth $14,000. There is a WWII registration card dated 1942. He worked for, after he graduated from Harvard at the National Shawmut Bank as Secretary to it's president, William A. Gaston. Then the World War I came and afterwards went back to work for the bank; he then went on to work for Richardson, Hill & Company and then for Blair & Company, Inc., first as a salesman and then as vice president in charge of their New England activities. In 1925 he was appointed to the Visiting Committee of the Museum of of Fine Arts of Boston In 1933 he had an office at 19 Congress Street, Boston, Massachusetts. For four years he was President and Treasurer of the Cosmos Chemical Corporation, owned then by Bayard Warren. After the company folded he then became treasurer of Dexter Southfield School, the New England Peabody Home for Crippled Children, the Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities, the Gore Place Society and the Somerset Club and President of the Essex Country Club in Manchester, Hillsbroough County, New Hampshire. B as his family and friends called him,was appointed to a draft board by Gov. Leverett Saltonstall at the outbreak of WWII and then in 1944 to the Massachusetts Parole Board.
He was reappointed by several governors and finally in 1952 he was named it's chairman by Gov. Christian A. Herter; B resigned in 1957 at the age of 65. In 1957 he was elected to the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and in 1959 to the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1959 he was elected to the Council of the Essex Institute of Salem in Massachusetts. In 1959 he was elected to the council of the Peabody Museum and was there until 1969. He was on the Museum Committee from 1958 to 1964 as a member and then from 1961 as it's chairman. In 1960 he created a committee that was "legally constituted as the Trustees of the Wayside Inn." In 1959 he became a member of a special committee to help save and move the Crowninshield-Bentley House from being torn down. In 1963 he became the general Chairman of the Essex Institute Fund. He married on 3 Jul 1917 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts to Josephine de Gersdorff. She was born on 18 Jun 1896 in Manhattan, New York and died on 15 Oct 1975 also in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Carl August de Gersdorff who was born on 10 Jul 1865 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts and died on 21 Jan 1944 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Frederick Josiah Bradlee (1919) | 6 February 1919 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States | 12 July 2003 Manhattan, New York, United States | |
| Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921-2014) | 26 August 1921 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States | 21 October 2014 Georgetown, D.C., United States | Jean Saltonstall (1921-2011) Antoinette Eno Pinchot (1924-2011) Sally Sterling Quinn (1941) |
| Constance Bradlee (1923-1993) | 11 April 1923 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States | "1993-Apr-1993" contains a sequence that could not be interpreted against an available match matrix for date components.<day out of range> Manhattan, New York, United States | Francis C. Thayer |
