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Brockway, John Hall

educator, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born in 1801 in Ellington, Conn. He frequently served in the state legislature; and was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1839 to 1843. He died July 29, 1870, in Ellington.

Brodhead, Mrs. Eva Wilder

author. She is a popular novelist; and the author of One of the Visconti; Diana's Livery; An Earthly Paragon; Ministers of Grace; and Bound in Shallows.

Brodhead, John

clergyman, congressman, was born in 1770. He was a minister of the methodist episcopal church for forty-four years; and was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1829 to 1833. He died April 7, 1838, in New Market, N. Η.

Brodhead, John Romeyn

author, was born Jan. 2, 1814, in Philadelphia, Pa.

He was a painstaking, accurate writer, whose work, if somewhat lacking in picturesqueness, is of lasting value. He was the author of History of the State of New York; and The Government of Sir Edmund Andros over New England. His work consists of eighty volumes of information of the colonial history of New York. He died May 6, 1873, in New York city.

Brodhead, Richard

congressman, United States senator, was born in 1811 in Pike county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from 1843 to 1849; and a senator of the United States senate from Pennsylvania from 1851 to 1857. He died Sept. 16, 1863, in Easton, Pa.

Bromfield, John

merchant, philanthropist, was born April 11, 1779, in Newburyport, Mass. In 1845 he gave to the Boston Athenæum $25,000, and at his death he left munificent bequests to several charitable institutions. He died Dec. 8, 1849, in Boston, Mass.

Bromwell, Henry P. H

journalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 29, 1823, in Baltimore, Md. From 1852 to 1854 he was the publisher and editor of the Age of Steam and Fire, at Vandalia. In 1853 he was elected judge of Fayette county for four years; and was a presidential elector in 1860. In 1864 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-ninth congress; and was reelected to the fortieth congress as a republican.

Bromwell, Jacob H

educator, lawyer, congressman, was born May 11, 1847, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He taught in the Cincinnati high schools for seventeen years. He was assistant county solicitor of Hamilton county for four years; was elected to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses.

Brondel, John B

Roman catholic bishop, was born in 1842, in Belgium. He was consecrated bishop of Vancouver island in 1879, appointed administrator of the vicariate apostolic of Montana in 1883, and in 1884 consecrated bishop of Helena in the same territory.

Bronson, David

lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman. He was a member of the legislature as representative in 1832 and 1834, and as senator in 1846. He was a representative in congress from Norridgewock, Maine, from 1841 to 1843. From 1854 to 1857 he was judge of probate for Sagadahock county. He died in November, 1863, in Talbot county, Md.

Bronson, Isaac H

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1802, in Rutland, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1837 to 1839. In 1839 he was appointed one of the territorial judges of Florida, and from that time until his death served continually on the bench, at the time of his death being district judge of the United States for northern Florida. He died Aug. 13, 1855, in Palatka, Fla.

Bronson, Sherlock A

college president, was born April 21, 1807, in Waterbury, Conn. He was appointed president of Kenyon college in 1845, and held that office until 1850. In 1870 he began to supply the pulpit of Grace church of Mansfield, of which he became rector in 1872; continuing in active pastoral work until 1889. He died May 17, 1890, in Mansfield, Ohio.