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Briggs, James F

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 23, 1827, in England. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1856, 1857, 1858, and 1874. In 1871 he removed to Manchester, N. H.; was a state senator in 1876; and was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.

Briggs, Le Baron R

educator, was born December, 1855, in Salem, Mass. In 1883 he was appointed instructor in English at Harvard; professor in 1890; and in 1891 dean of the college.

Briggs, William T

clergyman, author, poet, was born Dec. 1, 1815, in Scituate, Mass. He was ordained in 1846 as a congregationalist minister, and has filled important pastorates in Massachusetts. During the war he served for a while as chaplain in the Finley hospital of Washington, D. C. He has published several sermons, many articles and addresses, and a few poems.

Brigham, Amariah

physician, author, was born Dec. 26, 1798, in New Marlborough, Mass. He was a physician of Hartford, and subsequently superintendent of the lunatic asylum of Utica, N. Y. He was the author of The Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology of the Brain.

He died Sept. 8, 1849, in Utica, N. Y.

Brigham, Charles Henry

clergyman, author, was born July 27, 1820, in Boston, Mass. He became pastor of a unitarian church in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1866, and in the same year was chosen professor of biblical archæology and ecclesiastical history at Meadville, Pa., Theological school, where he lectured twice a year for ten years. He has published Letters of Foreign Travel in two volumes, and Life of Rev. Simeon Daggett. He died Feb. 19, 1879, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Brigham, Elijah

merchant, congressman, was born in 1750 in Northborough, Mass. He was a merchant and held many positions of trust and responsibility. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1811 to 1816, when he resigned. He died April 22, 1816, in Washington city.

Brigham, Joseph H

soldier, state senator, was born Dec. 12, 1838, in Lodi, Ohio. He served in the war as a lieutenant-colonel, and subsequently was elected to the Ohio state senate. For ten years he was master of the State Grange, and has been prominent in the improvements of his state.

Brigham, Lewis A

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 2, 1831, in York Mills, N. Y. He was elected superintendent of the public schools of the city of Bergen, N. J., from 1866 to 1870; was a member of the board of police commissioners of Jersey City from 1874 to 1876, and was a representative of the state legislature in 1877. He was elected a representative from New Jersey to the fortysixth congress as a republican. He died Feb. 20, 1886.

Brigham, William Tufts

naturalist, lawyer, author, was born in 1841 in Massachusetts. He is a lawyer and naturalist now at Honolulu in charge of the government museum, and is the author of Volcanic Manifestations in New England; Guatemala: and the Land of the Quetzal, a volume of travels.

Bright, John Morgan

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1817, in Fayetteville, Tenn. He was a member of the legislature of Tennessee in 1847 and 1848. He was elected to the forty-second congress; was re-elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a democrat.

Brignoli, Pasquale

vocalist, was born in 1824, in Naples. He has attained a national reputation as a vocalist, and is the author of Martha; and Good-Bye, Sweetheart, Good-bye. He died Oct. 30, 1884, in New York city.