Amory H. (Amory Howe) Bradford

Born in Granby, New York, in 1846, Amory Howe Bradford became an American Congregational pastor and author. Archival and reference sources agree that he studied at Hamilton College, graduating in 1867, and then at Andover Theological Seminary, where he completed his training for the ministry.

Bradford is closely associated with the First Congregational Church in Montclair, New Jersey, where he served as pastor and became known as a preacher as well as a religious thinker. He also wrote widely on Christian belief and spiritual life, with books including Spirit and Life, The Pilgrim in Old England, Heredity and Christian Problems, The Growing Revelation, and The Age of Faith.

He died in 1911. Today he is remembered less as a public celebrity than as a steady, reflective voice in American Protestant thought at the turn of the twentieth century.