Environmental Groups Cheer Release of River Diversion Report in Louisiana by Tristan Baurick and Halle Parker of the New Orleans Advocate
Heirlooms’ Tale: A Family Story Told by Its Treasures by Benedicte Grima
Bradish Johnson Silver Wedding (kindly provided by Weasy Blodgett)
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Special thanks to the initial research of Stephen Whitney Lindsay for his 2008 report titled “Bradish Johnson and Me” (2nd link below). The end notes of his article serve as the basis of many of the research links below.
Bradish Johnson Archival Papers at the Museum of the City of New York
Bradish Johnson and Me -by Stephen Whitney Lindsay 2008
Bradish Johnson Building -NYC today, located at 921-925 Broadway, New York, NY 10010
Bradish Johnson History -Wikipedia
Bradish Johnson Holdings Bring $4,796,100 at Auction -Oct 12, 1900, New York Times
Bradish Johnson House -Garden District, New Orleans, LA
Bradish W. Johnson, Master Wrecker, 1846-1914
Bradish Johnson Obituary -Nov 5, 1892
Emma Lazarus in Her World: Life and Letters
History of the Chemical Bank 1823-1913 (eventually become J.P. Morgan Chase)
How We Poison Our Children -May 13, 1858 New York Times
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana -Wikipedia
History of Woodland Plantation Bed and Breakfast
“The Great South” by Edward King, 1875, p.81 UNC Library online electronic edition
The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer -Nov 12, 1892
The Louisiana Scalawags: Politics, Race and Terrorism During the Civil War
“The Whitney Family of Connecticut”, Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1878, p. 939
Whitney Plantation Historic Distric web site
Whitney Plantation -Building the First Slavery Museum in America, New York Times, Feb 26, 2015
Woodland Plantation Bed and Breakfast -The History
Woodland Plantation -Wikipedia
In opposition to a plan to run a railroad up Fifth Avenue in 1885, group, including Cornelius Vanderbilt, Chauncey M. Depew, John Sloane, Bradish Johnson and William Waldorf Astor, organized theAssociation for the Protection of the Fifth Avenue Thoroughfare (Robert T. Swaine, The Cravath Firm And Its Predecessors: 1819-1947, 2006:413ff).
