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unusual facts about Bradshaw Gass & Hope


John and Donald Parkinson

At the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed for six years to John J. Bradshaw, a contractor/builder in nearby Bolton, where he learned the meaning of craftsmanship and gained a strong knowledge of practical construction.


A. D. Hope

He wrote a book of "answers" to other poems, including one in response to the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell.

His influences were Pope and the Augustan poets, Auden, and Yeats; he was a polymath, very largely self-taught, and with a talent for offending his countrymen.

Alexander W. Hope

On June 4, 1851, Mayor Benjamin Wilson appointed him to organize and lead a volunteer force of city peace officers, to be known as the Los Angeles Rangers.

Eugene Nickerson

He worked for Wall Street law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hope, Hadley & McCloy, then Hale, Stimson, Russell & Nickerson.

John C. Hope

J.C. Hope was born in Newberry District, South Carolina to Johann Christian Haupt and Christina Fellers.

Patrick A. Hope

Hope won a five-way Democratic primary in June 2009 to replace retiring Delegate Al Eisenberg as the 47th district delegate.

T. C. Hope

Theodore Cracraft Hope - a British born civil servant of the Government of India and also author of many books.

Walsh College of Accountancy and Business

Walsh College assists the community in ongoing volunteer efforts: Gleaners, Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Blackwell Institute in Detroit, and Focus: HOPE.


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