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Mansfield, John Brainard

author, was born March 6, 1826, in Andover, Vt. He published with Austin J. Cooledge, the first volume of a History of the New England States, embracing Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. In 1866 he published in Washington, D. C., The American Loyalist, in which were printed biographies and speeches of members of the thirty-ninth congress. He died Oct. 29, 1886, in Effingham, Kan.

MANSFIELD, JOSEPH KING FEΝΝΟ, soldier, was born Dec. 22, 1803, in New Haven, Conn. In 1822 he was assigned to the engineer corps, and for the next three years was an assistant to the board of engineers, then assembled in New York, and engaged in planning fortifications for the defense of the harbors and cities on the coast. He served in the Mexican war as chief engineer under General Taylor; was brevetted major for gallant and distinguished services; and also served with distinction in the civil war. He died Sept. 18, 1862, in Sharpsburg, Md.