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- NAME: Milton Bradley
- OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur
- BIRTH DATE: November 08, 1836
- DEATH DATE: May 30, 1911
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Vienna, Maine
- PLACE OF DEATH: Massachusetts
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Milton Bradley was a businessman and a manufacturer of toys and board games. He founded Milton Bradley Co.
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Manufacturer and businessman. Milton Bradley was born on November 8, 1836 in Vienna, Maine, USA. After various positions as a draughtsman, he became interested in lithography and introduced the first lithograph press to Springfield, MA (1860). He is reagrded by many for launching the board game industry.
Bradley printed and personally sold a new parlour game, ??The Checkered Game of Life??, which became so profitable that he formed Milton Bradley and Company (1864) to print games and game manuals. In 1869 he published the first book on kindergartens in the US, Paradise of Childhood, by the German kindergarten pioneer, Friedrich Froebel. Bradley followed up with a series of kindergarten materials, newsletters, and children's books.
Interested in teaching colours, Milton Bradley wrote and published four books including Color in the Kindergarten (1893). In 1893 his company began publishing the Kindergarten Review which became the journal of the International Kindergarten Union. His partners retired in 1878 and he reorganized as Milton Bradley Co, which long retained its position as a leading American manufacturer of games and toys.
Bradley died on May 30, 1911 in Massachusetts.
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