Bradt/Brott Genealogy

The foremost source of information about the Bradt/Brott family name is Cynthia Brott Biasca's 1991 book Descendants of Albert and Arent Andriessen Bradt, which is available from Higginson Book Co. Cynthia published her Supplement to the Bradt Book in 1993, which is also available from Higginson. Cynthia's e-mail address is cynthia.biasca@verizon.net.

Laurie M. Grimes has assumed Cynthia's duties to maintain the descendants' data base.  She's just completed the Second Supplement to the Bradt Book, and the book can be ordered for $28.50. Add $4.50 for shipping and handling ($10 to Canadian addresses). Laurie's address is 6690 Nicoll Drive, North Ridgeville, OH 44039; 440-327-2605 or via e-mail at LMGrimes@juno.com. Another genealogical resource is Daniel P. Bradt, who's reachable at NISKYBRAT@aol.com.

The Bradt Family Society maintains a web site coordinated by Steve Brott (brottfam@yahoo.com). The web site contains many links of interest to Bradt/Brott researchers.   

To join the Bradt Family Society, send $10 to Bradt Family Society, P.O. Box 56, Mechanicville, NY 12118-0056.  The Bradt Family News, published in April and October each year, is edited by Richard and Barbara Bratt (rbbratt@juno.com), 3984 Stetson Circle, Syracuse, NY 13215. 

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Here's an interesting note on a relative.

Helen Tanner Brodt (1838-1908)

Helen Tanner Brodt moved to Red Bluff in 1863 from New York City, where she had been trained in art at the National Academy of Design. In Red Bluff she painted landscapes, portraits, china, and ranch scenes, and also at the public school. She climbed Mount Lassen in 1864, the first white women to do so. Lake Helen of Mount Lassen is named after her:

She taught art in Oakland in 1867 and gave Arthur Matthews his first art lessons. Matthews later would develop what is called the California Decorative style, which dominated arts and crafts in California during the turn of the century. Mrs. Brodt exhibited her art at the Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893. Two of Mrs. Brodt's pastels of Mount Shasta are in the collection of the Bancroft library at the University of California at Berkeley.

 

Helen Tanner Brodt (1838-2908) - Mount Shasta Viewed through Trees
This pastel reproduced courtesy of the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library.

*The Lake Helen on Mount Lassen was named for Helen Brodt; to avoid confusion, please note that a Lake Helen on Mount Shasta was named by local Mount Shasta artist and mountaineer Edward Stuhl in honor of a climb of Shasta accomplished together with the beautiful and athletic Helen Wheeler, his friend and the former owner of a large tract of property in McCloud.