Charles Bradford Isham

Charles Bradford Isham (July 20, 1853 – June 9, 1919) was an American historian.

Early life Isham was born in New York City on July 20, 1853. He was the son of William Bradley Isham (1827–1909) and Julia (née Burhans) Isham (1827–1907). His father was a leather merchant who owned downtown factories and warehouses on Gold and Cliff Streets and became vice president of the Bank of the Metropolis and the president of the Bond and Mortgage Guarantee Company. Among his siblings were: and brothers, Samuel Isham, an artist; and William Burhans Isham.

In 1862, his father rented the former house and estate of the late Dr. Floyd T. Ferris in uptown Manhattan as a summer residence. The two-story house, located on forty-acres in the neighborhood now known as Inwood, had been built in the 1850s and was part of the Dyckman tract.

After receiving a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1878, he was admitted to the bar in New York in 1881.

Isham, who was fluent in German and French, was, foremost, a historian with a reputation "as a learned scholar and brilliant intellectual."

Personal life On September 2, 1891, Isham was married to Mary Todd "Mamie" Lincoln (1869–1938) Mamie was the eldest daughter of Mary Eunice (née Harlan) Lincoln, and Robert Todd Lincoln, and the granddaughter of President Lincoln and, her namesake, Mary Todd Lincoln. Isham and his wife bought a place in Manchester, Vermont, later known as the 1811 house, until they moved to New York City, residing at 19 East 72nd Street. Together, Charles and Mamie were the parents of one child: who married Leahalma Correa (1892–1960), the daughter of Spaniard, Carlos Correa and Englishwoman, Mary Gooding, in August 1919. They did not have any children together.

After a short illness, Isham died at his residence, 122 East 38th Street in New York City, on June 9, 1919. After a funeral held at Grace Church on Broadway, he was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. His widow died nineteen years later in November 1938.