Bross, William
journalist, author, was born Nov. 4, 1813, in Montague, N. J.
He was a Chicago journalist; and the author of History of Chicago (1866); Tom Quick, a romance of Indian warfare; and Chicago and Her Future Growth. He died in 1890.
BROTHERTON, MRS. ALICE WIL- LIAMS, poet, was born in Cambridge, Ind.
She is a magazine writer of Cincinnati, whose work is mainly in poetry; and she is the author of Beyond the Veil; The Sailing of King Olaf; and What the Wind Told the Tree-Tops, prose and verse for children. In 1876 she married William Ernest Brotherton of Cincinnati, Ohio, which city has since been her home.
Many of her poems have been set to music in America and in England.