1. Bradish Johnson was an American industrialist and slave owner.
26 Facts About Bradish Johnson
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Bradish Johnson owned plantations and sugar refineries in Louisiana and a large distillery in New York City.
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Bradish Johnson's father, William M Johnson, was a sea captain from Nova Scotia.
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Bradish Johnson, born in 1811, was the third of four sons.
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Bradish Johnson was named after his father's business partner, George Bradish.
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Bradish Johnson, who was born in Louisiana, attended Columbia College in New York City, graduating in the class of 1831.
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Bradish Johnson then studied law and was admitted to the bar.
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Bradish Johnson started out as a partner in the distilling company William Bradish Johnson and Sons.
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Bradish Johnson became one of the directors of the Chemical Bank of New York when it was rechartered in 1844.
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Bradish Johnson served as a director for the next twenty years.
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Bradish Johnson was an innovator in the sugar industry, and his refinery was the first to "successfully make use of centrifugal machines in the manufacture of sugar".
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Bradish Johnson bought out his brother's share of the Woodland Plantation before the Civil War and became its sole owner.
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Bradish Johnson eventually purchased a number of other plantations in the area: Pointe Celeste, Bellevue, and the Orange Farm.
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Bradish Johnson acquired two plantations above New Orleans which he renamed after his married daughters: Whitney Plantation and Carroll Plantation.
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When Bradish Johnson's estate was settled in 1900, it included 31 pieces of New York real estate, which together added up to 78 acres.
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Bradish Johnson was a supporter of the Tammany Hall politician Alderman Michael Tuomey, known as "Butcher Mike".
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In 1863 Bradish Johnson took a leading part in the "Conservative Unionists", a group of businessmen with interests in the South who wanted occupied Louisiana let back into the Union with her 1852 constitution intact.
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In 1863 Bradish Johnson brought a suit against a Union general.
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Bradish Johnson presented himself as a loyal citizen of the Union, residing in New York, who had simply been robbed by the Union Army.
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Bradish Johnson was awarded $1750 in damages by the court.
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Bradish Johnson married a New Yorker named Louisa Anna Lawrance around 1834.
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In 1874 Bradish Johnson retired from business in New York and moved to New Orleans, where he had a new Italianate mansion built in the Garden District at 2343 Prytania Street.
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The family had an estate in East Islip, on the South Shore of Long Island, NY, which is where Bradish Johnson died on November 3,1892.
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Bradish Johnson is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
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Bradish Johnson was a member of The Boston Club of New Orleans.
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In 1918 the Bradish Johnson heirs had an office building erected on the site.