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Brawley, William H – Breathitt, John

Brawley, William H

soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1841 in South Carolina. He served in the confederate army, and was solicitor of the sixth judicial circuit. He served in the legislature of South Carolina, and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat; was elected to the fiftythird congress and served until February, 1894, when he was appointed United States judge for North Carolina by President Cleveland.

Braxton, Carter

legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1736, on the Mattapony river, Va. In 1760 he was elected to the house of burgesses, in which he was conspicuous. He was a delegate from Virginia to the continental congress in 1776, and signed the Declaration of Independence. After that service he frequently served in the Virginia legislature. He died Oct. 10, 1797, in Richmond, Va.

Braxton, Elliott M

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1823, in Matthews county, Va. He was elected to the state senate in 1851, and reelected in 1853. He was elected to the common council of Fredericksburg in 1866, and was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-second congress.

Bray, Andrew Watson

insurance manager, was born July 24, 1855, in Rockaway, N. J. He was one of the valued agents of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad; and subsequently assumed the management in New Jersey for the Mutual Life Insurance company.

Brayton, George Bailey

inventor, was born Oct. 23, 1829, in Crompton, R. I. He was the inventor of a safety steam boiler, and of the high pressure gas engine.

Brayton, Samuel Nelson

educator, physician, journalist, was born Jan. 11, 1839, in Queensbury, N. Y. He engaged in practice in Honeoye Falls, N.

Y., removed to Buffalo in 1877, and became professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the Buffalo college of physicians and surgeons upon its establishment, and dean of the faculty in 1881. He is also editor of the Eclectic Physicians' and Surgeons' Investigator, a monthly homeopathic journal, published in Buffalo.

Brayton, William D

state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 6, 1815, in Warwick, R. I. In 1841 he was elected to the state assembly, serving two terms.

In 1848 he was elected to the state senate; again elected to the state assembly in 1851; and in 1855 was a second time elected state senator. He was presidential elector in 1856; and was elected a member from Rhode Island to the thirtyfifth and thirty-sixth congresses.

Brazza, Cora

author, was born in 1862 in Louisiana. She is the author of An American Idyl; a Literary Farce; and Guide to the Old and New Race in Italy.

Breare, George W

lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 28, 1858, in Newton, Ala.

In 1880 he moved to Florida, and the following year was appointed justice of the peace, which he filled for eight years, in Suwannee county. In 1896 he was elected county judge of Lafayette county, Fla., and received the re-election the following year.

Brearly, David

soldier, jurist, was born in 1745. He was lieutenant-colonel in the revolutionary army and a brave officer. He was a member of the state and federal constitutional conventions of New Jersey; chief justice in that state for nine years; and in 1789 was appointed United States judge for the district of New Jersey. He died Aug. 16, 1790, in Trenton, N. J.

Breathitt, John

educator, lawyer, legislator, governor, was born Sept. 9, 1786, in New London, Va. He was a surveyor and school teacher; and was admitted to the bar in 1810. He was several years in the legislature; was lieutenant-governor from 1828 to 1832; and was governor of Kentucky from 1832 to 1834.

He died Feb. 21, 1834, in Frankfort, Ky.