Bracken, John
college president, bishop. He was a professor of humanity in William and Mary college. In 18 he became president, and in 1814 was elected bishop of the Episcopal church.
He died July 15, 1818.
BRACKENRIDGE, HENRY MARIE, jurist, author, was born May 11. 1786. in Pittsburg, Pa. He was a noted Florida. jurist and the author of History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain (1816); Voyage to South America; Views of Louisiana; Recollections of Persons and Places in the West; Essay on Trusts and Trustees; and History of the Western Insurrection. He died Jan. 18, 1871, in Pittsburg, Pa.
BRACKENRIDGE, HUGH HENRY, lawyer, author, was born in 1748 in Scotland. He was a Pennsylvania lawyer and humorist whose writing enjoyed great popularity in the early years of the nineteenth century. His principal work was Modern Chivalry, or the Adventures of Captain Farrago and Teague O'Regan, and His Servant, a rough, sharp piece of humorous fiction, partaking to some extent of the nature of an autobiography. He died Jan. 25, 1816, in Carlisle, Pa.
BRACKETT, ALBERT GALLATIN, soldier, author, was born Feb. 14, 1829, in Cherry Valley, N. Y. He is a United States cavalry officer, and the author of General Lane's Brigade in Central Mexico; and History of the United States Cavalry, 1854.
BRACKETT, ANNA CALLENDER, author, was born in 1836 in Massachusetts. She is an educational writer, and the author of The Education of American Girls; Woman and the Higher Education: and The Technique of Rest. BRACKETT, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, sculptor, poet, was born Oct. 1, 1819, in Vassalborough, Maine. He began his career in 1838, and has produced portrait busts of Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana, Bryant, Longfellow, Rufus Choate, Charles Sumner, John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, General Butler, and others. His marble group of the Shipwrecked Mother and Child is now the property of the Boston athenæum. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Twilight Hours.