Brackenridge, Hugh Henry – Bradford, Allen A
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry
lawyer, author, was born in 1748 in Scotland. He was a Pennsylvania lawyer and humorist whose writing enjoyed great popularity in the early years of the nineteenth century. His principal work was Modern Chivalry, or the Adventures of Captain Farrago and Teague O'Regan, and His Servant, a rough, sharp piece of humorous fiction, partaking to some extent of the nature of an autobiography. He died Jan. 25, 1816, in Carlisle, Pa.
Brackett, Albert Gallatin
soldier, author, was born Feb. 14, 1829, in Cherry Valley, N. Y. He is a United States cavalry officer, and the author of General Lane's Brigade in Central Mexico; and History of the United States Cavalry, 1854.
Brackett, Anna Callender
author, was born in 1836 in Massachusetts. She is an educational writer, and the author of The Education of American Girls; Woman and the Higher Education: and The Technique of Rest.
Brackett, Edward Augustus
sculptor, poet, was born Oct. 1, 1819, in Vassalborough, Maine. He began his career in 1838, and has produced portrait busts of Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana, Bryant, Longfellow, Rufus Choate, Charles Sumner, John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, General Butler, and others. His marble group of the Shipwrecked Mother and Child is now the property of the Boston athenæum. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Twilight Hours.
Brackett, J. Q. A
lawyer, governor, was born Sept. 6, 1857, in Cambridge, Mass. In 1881 he became a member of the common council, and two years later he became a member of the upper branch of the city government. In 1890 and 1891 he was elected governor of Massachusetts.
Brackett, J. Raymond
educator, was born April 1, 1854, in Raymond, Maine. He attended Bates college, and Yale college, and has received the degrees of B. A., M. A., and Ph. D. For many years he was engaged in educational work in New England, and since 1884 has filled the chair of comparative and English literature in the university of Colorado, of which institution he is dean of the college of liberal arts.
Brackett, Joshua
physician, was born May 5, 1773, in Greenland, N. H.
He was a zealous patriot, a member of the state committee of safety, and during the revolution was judge of the New Hampshire maritime court. He was a founder of the state medical society, and its president from 1793 till 1799. He gave it 143 volumes of medical works at its establishment. He bequeathed a legacy to Harvard toward founding a professorship of natural history. He died July 17, 1802, in Portsmouth, N. H.
Brackett, Walter M
artist, was born June 14, 1823, in Unity, Maine. He gave his attention to portraits and ideal heads, and executed likenesses of Charles Sumner, Edward Everett, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. He also painted portraits of the first four secretaries of war, for the war department at Washington.
Bracklin, James
business man, public official, was born April 28, 1839, in Patten, Maine. Since 1858 he has been connected with the business and public affairs of Menomonee, Wis., excepting eight years with the Northwestern Lumber company of Eau Claire. In 1886 he יan for congress on the Democratic ticket. has filled numerous public offices of trust, and has twice been mayor of Rice 1 ake, Wis.
Bradbury, Albert William
soldier, lawyer, was born in 1840 in Calais, Maine. He served in the civil war in Sheridan's army, and was appointed chief of the artillery of the army of the Shenandoah. He came to the bar in 1867; has been city solicitor of Portland; and was appointed U. S. district attorney for Maine in 1894.
Bradbury, George
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1770 in Portland, Maine. From 1806 to 1810 he was a member of the state legislature, and also in 1811 and 1812. In 1812 he was chosen to represent the Cumberland district, Massachusetts, in congress. Mr. Bradbury received the approbation of a second election in 1814. After this service he returneu to his profession, which he pursued to the time of his death. He was a state senator in 1822. He died Nov. 7, 1823, in Portland, Maine.
Bradbury, George Lewis
soldier, railroad manager, was born March 10, 1843, in Nova Scotia. He served in the army from Massachusetts from 1861 to 1865, serving from private up to captain. Since then he has been in the railroad service as conductor, agent, general agent, general freight agent, general manager, and vice-president.
Bradbury, Henry Knight
lawyer, legislator, was born October, 1827, in Hollis, Maine. He has held county and town offices, and has represented his town in the legislature of Maine for three terms.
Bradbury, James Ware
lawyer, United States senator, was born in 1805 in York county, Maine. In 1825 he graduated from Bowdoin college, and became a noted lawyer; and was county attorney during 1834-38. In 1844 he was presidential elector; and during 1847-53 was United States senator from as Maine, serving as chairman of the committee on printing. He was county attorney during 1834-38, and filled many public positions of honor in his city, county and state. He has been president of the Maine Historical society.
Bradbury, Osgood N
physician, state senator, was born Oct. 28, 1828, in Norway, Maine. Since 1864 he has practiced medicine and surgery. During the civil war he was surgeon of the United States army for two years; and for thirteen years United States examining surgeon for pensions. He served in the Maine state legislature for one year, and for two years was a member of the senate.
Bradbury, Theophilus
jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1739, in Newburyport, Mass. He was chosen to represent the Essex district in congress from 1795 to 1797, when he resigned. He was a presidential elector in 1801, and in 1797 was appointed a judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts. He died Sept. 6, 1803.
Bradbury, William Batchel- Der
musician, was born Oct. 6, 1816, in York, Maine. In 1840 he began teaching in New York and Brooklyn, where he gained popularity by his free singingschools, and by his concerts, at which the performers, all children, sometimes numbered 1,000. He died Jan. 7, 1868, in Montclair, N. J.
Bradbury, William Frothing- Ham
educator, author, was born May 17, 1829, in Westminster, Mass. He attended the Westminster academy, and in 1856 graduated from Amherst college. He is one of the most prominent educators in America, and is now the head master in the Cambridge Latin school. He is the author of Sight Arithmetic; and several mathematical text books. He is the inventor and patentee of a device for illustrating the metric system of weights and measures.
He was a member of the Cambridge city government two years; and for thirtythree years has been a member of the Handel and Haydn society, and one of its directors for more than fifteen years past.
Braddock, John S
business man, state senator, was born Dec. 13, 1844, near Mount Vernon, Ohio. He received his education in the public schools of his native town and county, and graduated from the high school of Fredericktown.
He served with distinction as a representative in the general assembly of the Ohio state legislature; and was subsequently a state senator, and served on several important committees. In 1888 he was a candidate for congress from the ninth Ohio district. He is a successful real estate dealer, and president of the Braddock Land and Granite company of Little Rock, Ark. His home is still in the place of his nativity.
Braden, Mrs. Emily
poet, was born in England. She is a writer of Chariton, Iowa; and a constant contributor of poems to the periodical press of the west.
Braden, John
clergyman, college president, was born Aug. 18, 1826, in New York city. He has attained prominence as a successful clergyman of the methodist episcopal church; and is the president of the Central Tennessee college of Nashville. was
Bradford, Alden
author, born Nov. 19, 1765, in Duxbury, Mass. He was secretary of state for Massachusetts in 1812-24. He was the author of Eulogy on Washington; History of Massachusetts, 1764-1820; Life of Jonathan Mayhew; History of the Federal Government; Biographical Notices of Distinguished Men of Massachusetts; and New England Chronology, 1497-1843. He died Oct. 26, 1843, in Boston, Mass.
BRADFORD, ALEXANDER WAR- FIELD, jurist, author, was born in 1815, in Albany, N. Y. He was a New York jurist of prominence. He edited American Antiquities, and prepared many volumes of legal reports, among which the six commonly called Bradford's Reports have become standard authority. He died Nov. 5, 1867, in New York city.
Bradford, Allen A
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 23, 1815, in Friendship, Maine. In 1852 he was appointed judge of the sixth judicial district of Iowa, which office he resigned in 1855. He was a member of the legislative council of the territory of Nebraska in 1856, 1857, and 1858. In 1860 he settled in Colorado, and in 1862 he was appointed judge of the supreme court of that territory, which position he held until elected a delegate from Colorado to the thirty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-first congress as a republican.