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Brandon, George C – Braunhart, Samuel

Brandon, George C

statesman.

He was governor of Mississippi from 1827 to 1831.

Brandreth, William

capitalist, was born Oct. 22, 1842, in Sing Sing, N. Y.

In 1868 he became interested in real estate, and established the firm of Howland and Brandreth of Sing Sing, N. Y. He was interested in the manufacturing of iron and steel directly from the ore by the action of flame, at a cost less than that. of the ordinary methods of production, which led him to establish the Carbon Iron company.

Brandt, Carl Ludwig

soldier, artist, was born Sept. 22, 1831, in Hamburg, Germany. He served in the war of 1848- '50, between Germany and Denmark, and came to the United States in 1852.

Among his works are A Dish of Alpine Strawberries; The Fortune Teller; Return from the Alps; Monte Rosa at Sunrise; Bay of Naples During Eruption of Vesuvius in 1867; Etna from Taurinino, Sicily; Resignation; and The Golden Treasures of Mexico.

Brandt, John Baughman

soldier, clergyman, was born Aug. 29, 1838, near For four years he Lancaster, Ohio. served in the union army, and was promoted to captain. In 1886 he was ordained a clergyman in the presbyterian church, and has filled pastorates principally in Indianapolis and St. Louis. He has organized and built a number of churches, and is the founder of the gen-- eral secretaries' conference. .

Brannan, Samuel

pioneer, journalist, was born in 1819, in Saco, Me. He was an elder in that church, and arrived in San Francisco in July, 1846, as leader of the Mormon colony sent out in the ship Brooklyn from New York. He began the publication of a newspaper, the Star, the second in California and the first published in the San Francisco district.

Brannan, William Penn

painter, was born in 1825 in Ohio. He was a portrait painter of Cincinnati, and the author of Vagaries of Vandyke Brown; and The Harp of a Thousand Strings, or Laughter for a Life Time. He died Aug. 9, 1866, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Brannon, John Milton

soldier, was born in 1819 in Washington, D. C.

He received the brevet of major-general of volunteers in 1865, and on March 13, 1865, was brevetted brigadier-general in the regular army, and major-general for gallant and meritorious services during the war.

Brant, David

journalist, legislator, was born July 6, 1850, in Shelbyville, Ind.

He received his education in the state university of Iowa; and for twenty years has been a successful editorial writer and press correspondent. He served in the Iowa legislature in the regular and special sessions of the twenty-sixth general assembly, and took an active part in the deliberations of that body.

Brantley, William G

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 18, 1860, in Blackshear, Ga. He represented Pierce county in the Georgia house of representatives in 1884-85; represented third senatorial district in Georgia senate in 1886-87; was elected solicitor-general of Brunswick circuit in 1888 for a term of four years, and re-elected in 1892 for another term of four years. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Braun, Christian

business man, was born Sept. 5, 1858, in Paterson, N. J.

He was made a candidate for mayor of the city of Paterson in 1893, and elected by an immense majority.

Braunhart, Samuel

business man, state senator, was born Jan. 1, 1848, in Germany. In 1880 he was elected a member of the assembly of the California state legislature, and in 1897 became a member of the state senate. He has filled numerous public offices in San Francisco.