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Brickell, William D

journalist, was born Nov. 19, 1852, in Steubenville, Ohio. In 1876 he established The Evening Dispatch of Columbia, Ohio.

Brickett, James

soldier, surgeon, was born in 1837. He was made lieutenantcolonel May 20, 1775, was wounded at Bunker Hill, June 17, and in the following year was made brigadier in the expedition preparing for Canada. After Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga (Oct. 17, 1777), Gen. Brickett was placed in command of the escort, and marched the prisoners, about 6,000 in number, from the battlefield on Hudson river to Cambridge, Mass. He died Dec. 9, 1818, in Haverhill, Mass.

Brickner, George H

manufacturer, congressman, was born Jan. 21, 1834, in Germany. He moved to Ohio in 1840; was educated in the common schools; and became a successful woolen manufacturer of Sheboygan Falls, Wis. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second and fiftythird congresses as a democrat.

Bridge, James Howard

author, was born in 1858, in England. He is the author of A Fortnight in Heaven, an Unconventional Romance; and Uncle Sam at Home.

Bridges, Albert F

clergyman, journalist, author, was born Aug. 22, 1853, in Poland, Ind. During 1874-81 he filled pastorates in the Indiana conference of the methodist episcopal church. For nine years he was editor and owner of The Register of Brazil, Ind.; and is the author of A History of Brazil and other works.

Bridgman, John Ladd

farmer, public official, was born Nov. 26, 1817, in Hanover, N. H. He has been sheriff, county commissioner, vice-president and director of the National bank, and trustee of the Saving bank of his native city; and for twenty-seven years was chairman of the Board of Selectmen. He is a successful farmer, and has been a prominent factor in the public affairs in his city, county and state for more than half a century.

Briggs, Ansel

governor. He was elected governor of Iowa in 1846, and remained in the office until 1850.

Briggs, Charles E

artist, poet, was born Sept. 19, 1828, in Fairhaven, Mass.

He is an artist in landscape and fruit painting, in Brewster, Mass.; and his poems occasionally appear in the periodical press.

Briggs, Charles Frederick

journalist, author, was born in 1804, in Nantucket, Mass. He was a journalist and editor of New York city, and the valued friend of many of the prominent literary Americans of his time. He was the author of Adventures of Harry Franco, a Tale of the Great Panic; The Haunted Merchant; The Trippings of Tom Pepper; and Working a Passage, or Life on a Liner. He died June 20, 1877, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Briggs, George

business man, legislator, congressman, was born in 1805, in Fulton county, N. Y. He represented the city of New York in congress from 1849 to 1853, and in 1858 was elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He died June 1, 1869, in Saratoga, N. Y.

Briggs, Henry C

lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born June 29, 1831, in West Haven, Vt. He is a noted lawyer of Kalamazoo, Mich.; was a member of the Michigan state senate in 1861-62; prosecuting attorney of Kalamazoo for four years; and in 1868 was elected judge of probate of his county, and held that position for eight years.

Briggs, Henry Shaw

soldier, lawyer, was born Aug. 1, 1824. He graduated at Williams in 1844, and became a lawyer.

At the beginning of the civil war he joined the army as colonel of the tenth Massachusetts volunteers, and distinguished himself at the battle of Fair Oaks, where he was wounded. In 1862 he was made a brigadier-general.