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Reverend Charles P Bragdon was a minister at the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Sarah W. (nee Cushman) on June 5, 1838. They had five children: Sarah L. Bragdon, Mary E. Bragdon, Charles Cushman Bragdon, Merritt C. Bragdon, and George E. Bragdon. Charles Cushman Bragdon and Merritt C. Bragdon were both born when the family lived in Auburn, N.Y. during the late 1840s and early 1850s. In 1852 Reverend Bragdon established a First Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School and congregation in Geddes, New York. The family moved to Evanston, Illinois in 1858, when Reverend Bragdon was sent there to become pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church.

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Letter from Frederick William Seward to William Henry Seward, February 2, 1851

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Reverend Charles P Bragdon was a minister at the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Sarah W. (nee Cushman) on June 5, 1838. They had five children: Sarah L. Bragdon, Mary E. Bragdon, Charles Cushman Bragdon, Merritt C. Bragdon, and George E. Bragdon. Charles Cushman Bragdon and Merritt C. Bragdon were both born when the family lived in Auburn, N.Y. during the late 1840s and early 1850s. In 1852 Reverend Bragdon established a First Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School and congregation in Geddes, New York. The family moved to Evanston, Illinois in 1858, when Reverend Bragdon was sent there to become pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church.

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Based on 1855 and 1860 census records: Source Information Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, State Census, 1855 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Massachusetts. 1855–1865 Massachusetts State Census [microform]. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Year: 1860; Census Place: Evanston, Cook, Illinois; Roll: M653_169; Page: 28; Family History Library Film: 803169 Source Information Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
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Source Information Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois, Marriage and Death Indexes, 1833-1889 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Sam Fink, comp. Sam Fink's Chicago Marriage and Death Index. Chicago, IL, USA.