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Brent, William L – Brewer, Leigh Richmond

Brent, William L

congressman, was born in Charles county, Md. He was a representative in congress from Louisiana from 1823 to 1829. He died in July, 1848. legislator, congressman, was born Nov.

Brentano, Lorenzo

journalist, journalist, 14, 1813, in Germany. He became editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, and in 1862 was a member of the state legislature. For five years he was president of the Chicago board of education. In 1868 he was presidential elector on the Grant and Colfax ticket.

He was appointed.

United States consul at Dresden in 1872, and served until 1876, when he was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.

Brenton, Andrew T

physician, was born Sept. 15, 1847, in Indianapolis, Ind. He received his education at the Iowa state university; and graduated in medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Keokuk, Iowa. He has attained prominence as one of the leading physicians of Iowa; and has held various public positions of honor in Sac City of that state.

Brenton, Samuel

clergyman, college president, congressman, was born Nov. 22, 1810, in Gallatin, Ky. He was a twenty until 1848. He was elected to minister of the gospel from the age of congress from Indiana in 1851, and again in 1855. He was also president of the Fort Wayne college. He died March 29, 1857, in Fort Wayne, Ind.

Brevard, James

congressman, was born in Iredell county, N. C. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1819 to 1821.

Brevoort, Henry

was born in 1791.

He inherited a large landed estate on Manhattan island, which became extremely valuable as the city increased in population. He was of literary taste and the life-long friend of Washington Irving, with whom he traveled in Europe and corresponded for half a century. He removed, in early life, to Yonkers, but returned to New York and was a member of the common council for many years. He died April 11, 1874, in Rye, N. Y.

Brevoort, James Renwick

painter, was born July 20, 1832, in Westchester, N. Y. He is very successful in the treatment of American landscape in a low tone of color, this being his favorite line of work. Among his pictures are Scene in Holland; Lake of Como; Storm on English England Scene; Morning in Early Winter; Moor; May Morning, Lake Como; New The Wild November Comes at Last:

Windy Evening on the Moors; and Windy Day on a Moor.

Brewer, Charles Martin

lawyer, was born Nov. 4, 1860, in Rock Dell, Minn. In 1890 he was admitted to the bar; has been justice of the peace for four years; and is postmaster of Stacy, Minn., where he holds a high position as an able lawyer and public officer.

Brewer, J. Hart

manufacturer, legislator, congressman, was born March 29, 1844, in Hunterdon county, N. J. He engaged in the manufacture of pottery; was a member of the state house of representatives in 1876; and was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a republican.

Brewer, Josiah

missionary, was born in 1796, in Berkshire, Mass. He was one of the first to volunteer as a missionary to Turkey for the American board, and in 1830 sailed for the east.

He died Nov. 19, 1872, in Boston, Mass.

Brewer, Leigh Richmond

bishop of Montana, was born Jan. 20, 1839, in Berkshire, Vt. He was rector of Grace church of Carthage, N. Y., for six years, when he became rector of Trinity church of Watertown, N. Y. He was then elected missionary bishop of Montana, and was consecrated in 1880.