Brad Hersey

Brad Hersey was born in Patten Maine, attended Patton Academy and Dartmouth College. He was owner operator, with his brother Thayer Hersey, of Hersey Paper Lining Company founded in 1926. He married Nina Robinson in 1922. They had one child, Joanne, later that year. They divorced in 1925.
Brad married Lois Elliott October 12, 1931 in Montreal Canada and they had four children, Elliott, Althea, Alison and Stephanie.
In 1922 Brad bought his first antique sparking a lifelong passion. When he died in 1976 he had a farm in New Boston NH with three story barn, a horse shelter and two sheds full to bursting as a museum. He lectured on the subject about 12 times a year.
Brad loved the family summer property on Shin Pond in northern Maine spending summers at this off-grid camp hosting his children, their families and his grandchildren. He suffered a heart attack there in 1976 and died at the hospital in Bangor Maine soon after.