International Correspondence School

Sorry it has been so long, almost a month and a half.  But I have been busy -  okay not that busy, but busy enough to keep me from doing much research and blogging.  If you remember back, I had talked about my great grand uncle Dr. William F Brady.  Well I forgot to mention one little detail that I had heard from my sister Pat and my cousin Linda.  Supposedly Dr Brady was one of the founders of the International School of Correspondence (ISC) in Scranton, Pa.  He allegedly wrote a textbook for the school on Electro Therapeutics.  No I don't know what that is, but apparently the good Doctor did.  It doesn't sound as interesting as my blog though.

So anyway I was looking up the school on google and it still exists and has been renamed Penn Foster Career School, but it still operates as ICS in the UK and Canada (according to wikipedia).  I called the University of Scranton Library because their website says that they have a collection of documents from the school.  I was told by a woman there that she would check through the collection and let me know if she finds anything about Dr. Brady.

Within a week, I received an email from one of the research librarians advising that there is no record of Dr. Brady being affiliated with the ICS, however, he was listed as a guest at the Fifteenth Anniversary of the ICS.  She also extended an invitation to make an appointment to examine a folder titled "The History of the ICS", and any other documents pertaining to the school.  I might take them up on it, because I have a copy of a document listing him at the Dean of the School of Electro Therapeutics.  So maybe no documents referring to him are still around, after all they are a hundred years old.  Just so you know there is a family connection to the ICS, William has an older brother John (who was the father of 11 children with his wife Anna, who all lived to adulthood).  In the 1930 Census, John is listed as 75 years old (as is Anna) and they were both 20 years old when they married.  That means that they were married 55 years at this point.  Sorry I went off on a tangent, John's occupation is listed as Repairman and his employer is listed as ICS.  I had heard that several family members were employed by the school.

My next email will be directed to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA.  This is the Medical School that he graduated from in 1884.  I am really looking to locate a picture of him.  It would also be nice to find out anything else that I can about him.