Bernhisel, John M
physician, congressman, was born June 23, 1799, in Cumberland county, Pa. He graduated in the medical department of Pennsylvania university; and engaged in the practice of medicine. He was elected a delegate to the thirty-fifth congress from the territory of Utah; and re-elected to the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh congresses.
BERNON, GABRIEL. He was a French Huguenot, who resided in Providence, R.
I. He founded the three first episcopal churches in America-one in Virginia, one in Newport, R. I., and St. John's church in Providence, R. I. History states that the first English prayer book in America was brought here and owned by Gabriel Bernon.