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Brainerd, David – Brandeis, Frederick

Brainerd, David

missionary, author, was born March 20, 1718, in Haddam, Conn. He was a famous missionary among the Indians of New England. Selections from his journals have been printed, entitled Miriabilia Dei apud Indicos; and Divine Grace Displayed. He died Oct. 9, 1747, in Northampton, Conn.

Brainerd, Lawrence

business man, United States senator, was born in 1794. He was a senator in congress from Vermont during the session of 1854 and 1855; and was for many years a leading business man in the town of St. Albans, Vt. He died May 9, 1870, in St. Albans, Vt.

Brainerd, Samuel M

congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1842, in Erie county, Pa. He received an academical education; was admitted to the bar in 1869; and has since practiced his profession in Erie, Pa. In 1872 he was elected district attorney of his county; and was elected to the forty-eighth congress as a republican.

Brainerd, Thomas

clergyman, journalist, was born June 17, 1804, in Leyden, N. Y. He took charge of the Fourth presbyterian church in 1831. From 1833 till 1836 he edited the Cincinnati Journal and the Youth's Magazine, and also assisted in editing the Presbyterian Quarterly Review. He died Aug. 21, 1866, in Scranton, Pa.

Brake, Hezekiah

farmer, author, was born Dec. 4, 1814, in England; is the author of a work entitled On Two Continents. He has had a varied career; has filled various offices of trust in Council Grove, Kan., where he has attained success in various enterprises, and has always been interested in educational work.

Braman, Benjamin

microscopist, journalist, was born Nov. 23, 1831, in Norton, Mass. During 1863-64 he was teaching at Astoria, and after that date taught drawing in the Cooper union and elsewhere in New York. He is a skillful microscopist, and from its first issue has edited the Journal of the New York Microscopical Society, of which organization he has some time been president.

Branch, William Alpheus

educator, was born Aug. 9, 1861, in Jeffersonville, Ill. In 1888 he was elected principal of schools in Menno, S. D.; at the end of three years was appointed county superintendent of schools, and in 1893 was elected to the same position. He has been most successful in his teachers' institutes, and is one of the foremost educators in South Dakota.

Brand, James

soldier, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 26, 1834, in Three Rivers, Canada. He served as a colorbearer of the twenty-seventh regiment Connecticut volunteer infantry; and fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. For four years he filled a pastorate in the Congregational church at Danvers, Mass.; and since 1873 has been pastor of the First Congregational church of Oberlin, Ohio. He is the author of two books entitled Sermons from a College Pulpit, and Beasts of Ephesus.

Brandebury, L. G

jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. He was appointed from that state chief justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah.

Brandegee, Augustus

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born July 15, 1828, in New London, Conn. He was elected in 1854, 1858, 1859 and 1861, a member of the Connecticut legislature; and was chosen speaker in the latter year.

In 1861 he was a presidential elector; and was elected a representative from Connecticut to the thirty-eighth congress. He was a delegate to the Baltimore convention of 1864; and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress.

Brandeis, Frederick

pianist, composer, was born July 5, 1835, in Vienna, Austria. In 1880 he became organist of a synagogue in New York, and in 1886 organist of St. Peter's and St. Paul's Roman Catholic church. His compositions include an introduction and capriccio; grand march and numerous others.