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Bruce, Phineas

congressman, was born June 17, 1762. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1792, 1793, 1796, and 1800, and was elected a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1803 to 1805. He died Oct. 4, 1809.

Bruce, Sanders Dewees

soldier, journalist, author, was born Aug. 16, 1825, in Lexington, Ky. He served in the civil war, and attained the rank of colonel.

He founded the widely known sporting journal, Turf, Field and Farm, and is the author of American Stud Book, and The Thoroughbred Horse.

Bruce, Wallace

lecturer, author, poet, was born Nov. 10, 1844, in Hillsdale, N. Y. He is a poet and lecturer, and the author of From the Hudson to the Yosemite; The Land of Burns; The Connecticut Daylight; in verse, The Hudson; Yosemite; Old Homestead Poems; Wayside Poems; In Clover and Heather; and Here's a Hand.

Brucker, Ferdinand

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1858, in Bridgeport, Mich. He graduated from the law department of the university of Michigan in the class of 1881; is a lawyer by profession, and served as alderman of the city of East Saginaw in 1882-84. He held the office of judge of probate for Saginaw county two terms, from 1888 to 1896; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress.

Bruin, Peter Bryan

jurist. He was appointed, in 1798, one of the first United States judges for the territory of Mississippi.

Brumbaugh, Henry Boyer

bishop, college president, was born April 1, 1836, in Huntingdon, Pa. He is president of Brethren's Publishing company, and was for many years president of Juniata college; vice-president of Orphans' home, and vice-president of Union National bank.

He is the bishop of his church and dean of the biblical department of Juniata college.

Brumm, Charles N

soldier, congressman, was born June 9, 1838, in Pottsville, Pa. He enlisted in the union army in 1861, and served throughout the war, being commissioned an assistant-quartermaster and detailed on staff duty. He was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the forty-sixth congress, and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the fortyseventh, fortyeighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.

He was a prominent candidate for governor of Pennsylvania.

Brundidge, Stephen

congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1857, in White county, Ark. In 1886 he was elected prosecuting attorney for the first judicial district of Arkansas, and re-elected in 1888 without opposition. Since 1890 he has served a term as member of the democratic state central committee of Arkansas, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Bruner, John Simeon

poet, was born Feb. 11, 1863, in Hope, Ind.; has written extensively for the periodical press, and his poems have appeared in several standard works.

Brunner, John Hamilton

clergyman, college president, was born March 2, 1825, in Greene county, Tenn. After receiving his education at Greenville and Tusculum college, he entered the ministry, and subsequently became president of Hiawassee college, Tennessee.

He is a fellow of the society of science, letters and art of London, England, and prominent in educational affairs.

He has contributed valuable articles to current literature on various educational and religious topics that have been incorporated into standard collections.

Brunot, Felix R

business man, philanthropist, was born Feb. 7, 1820.

Middle life found him a man of wealth, and he projected, founded and for many years served as president of the Mercantile library of Pittsburg, and is yet one of the managers of the Library hall of Pittsburg, which originated with him.