Bradshaw, George S – Brainard, Daniel
Bradshaw, George S
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born April 5, 1856, in Alamance county, N. C. He received a thorough education, and soon attained prominence as an eminent lawyer in his native state at Greensboro. During 1881- 83 he served with distinction as a member of the North Carolina state legislature; was clerk of the superior court; and during 1883-94 was probate judge.
He has taken an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state; is trustee of the Trinity college of North Carolina, and also of the university of North Carolina. He is also a successful editor, and has contributed extensively to periodical literature.
Bradshaw, Samuel C
physician, congressman, was born June 10, 1809, in Plumstead, Pa. He was a representative from his native state to the thirty-fourth congress.
Bradstreet, Albion Gilbert
civil engineer, lawyer, was born Jan. 30, 1852, in North Bridgton. In 1879 he was elected by Bridgton a representative in the Maine legislature, and re-elected in 1880. In 1881 he was appointed acting general manager and chief engineer of the Tehuantepec Inter-Ocean Railroad company, a large and important organization which is engaged in building a railroad in Mexico across the isthmus of Tehuantepec. was
Bradstreet, Mrs. Anne Dudley
author, was born about 1612 in England.
She was the first American woman of letters, and called by her contemporaries The Tenth Muse. Her prose work includes a brief autobiographic sketch, Religious Experiences; Meditations Divine and Moral, a series of shrewd, strong aphorisms. In her lifetime she known only as a poet, and her verse, the bulk of which is considerable, comprises elegies, epitaphs. She was the author of The Four Monarchies, a rhymed chronicle of ancient history; The Four Elements; The Four Humors of Man; The Four Ages of Man; The Four Seasons of the Year; Dialogue between Old England and New; and Contemplations. She followed artificial models, and her lines reflect the grotesque conceits of the time, but here and there are gleams of real poetic vigor, while in the poem Contemplations, the least labored of them all, she exhibits true poetic inspiration. She died Sept. 16, 1672.
Bradstreet, John
soldier, was born in 1711, in England. He participated in the attack on Ticonderoga in 1758, after which he was made full quartermaster-general with the rank of colonel. He captured Fort Frontenac, which he razed to the ground, and destroyed such stores as could not be removed. He served under Amherst in his expedition against Ticonderoga and Crown Point in 1759, received his colonelcy in February, 1762, and was advanced to the rank of major-general in 1772. During Pontiac's war he commanded an expedition against the western Indians, with whom he negotiated a treaty of peace in Detroit in 1764. He died Sept. 25, 1774, in New York city.
Bradstreet, Simon
colonial governor, was born in 1603 in England. He emigrated to Massachusetts in 1630, and in 1673 was chosen deputy governor, and held this position until 1679, when he was appointed governor. He resigned this office in 1686, but was chosen governor again three years later, and served in that capacity until 1692. He died March 27, 1697, in Salem, Mass.
Bradwell, Myra
lawyer, editor, was born Feb. 12, 1831, in Manchester, Vt. In 1852 she studied law under the instruction of her husband, Judge James B. Bradwell, whose father was one of the leading pioneers of Illinois. She was the first woman in America to ask for admission to the bar. About 1870 she founded the Legal News, the first weekly legal paper published in the western states. She died in 1895, in Chicago, Ill.
Brady, Hugh
soldier, was born in July, 1768, in Northumberland county, Pa. He was brevetted brigadier-general in 1822, and major-general in 1848. He distinguished himself at Lundy's Lane, at Chippewa, and at Niagara, and was wounded in the two latter engagements.
Stationed at Detroit during the patriot disturbances in Canada, he contributed greatly to the preservation of peace on the frontier. He died April 15, 1851, in Detroit, Mich.
Brady, James D
soldier, jurist, congressman, was born April 3, 1843, in Portsmouth, Va. He served throughout the civil war, rising through all the intermediate grades, to the rank of colonel. In 1880 and 1884 he was a delegate to the republican national conventions; and has been a prominent member of all state republican conventions in Virginia since the close of the war. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-ninth congress.
Brady, James T
lawyer, was born April 9, 1815, in New York city. He was appointed district attorney in 1843 for New York, and in 1845 corporation attorney. He died Feb. 9, 1869, in New York city.
Brady, Jasper E
lawyer, congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1847 to 1849. He died Jan. 23, 1870, in Washington, D. C.
Brady, John R
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1821, in New York city. He engaged in the practice of law in New York city, and in 1855 was elected judge of the court of common pleas. In 1869 he was elected to the supreme bench, and in 1877 assigned to be a general term judge, which office he held till the time of his death. He died March 16, 1891, in New York city.
Brady, Thomas J
soldier, lawyer, journalist, public official, was born Feb. 12, 1839, in Muncie, Ind. He received a common school education; taught school for several years in Muncie and vicinity; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1860. He entered the union army in 1861 as captain; was promoted major in 1862, and to a colonelcy in 1863; served throughout the civil war, and was mustered out of service with the last regiment, in 1865, as brevet brigadier-general, for long and meritorious service. He resumed the practice of law at Muncie, Ind., and became the publisher of the Muncie Weekly Times. In 1870 he was appointed United States consul at St.
Thomas, West Indies. In 1874 he was made chairman of the republican state central committee of Indiana; in 1875 was appointed supervisor of internal revenue; and in 1876 was appointed second assistant postmaster-general of the United States, and served until 1881, when he resigned.
Bragdon, Charles Cushman
educator, clergyman, was born Sept. 6, 1847, in Auburn, N. Y. He has been a successful educator, and is now principal of the Lasell Seminary for Young Women of Auburndale, Mass. This eminent clergyman has traveled extensively in Europe; has made ten trips to Europe, Asia and Africa; and during 1890-91 traveled around the world.
Bragg, Braxton
soldier, was born March 22, 1817, in Warren county, N.
C. He was present at the battle of Monterey, Sept. 21-23, and was brevetted major for gallant conduct there. In 1847 he was brevetted lieutenantcolonel for gallantry at the battle of Buena Vista. From 1848 till 1855 he was engaged in frontier service at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., Fort Gibson, and Washita.
When the civil war began he was appointed brigadier-general in the confederate army in 1861, and placed in command at Pensacola, Fla. In February, 1862, he was promoted major-general and ordered to join the army of the Mississippi. He took part in the battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, and was promoted general in place of A. S. Johnston, killed. After the evacuation of Corinth he succeeded General Beauregard in command of the department. In August he led a formidable force, 45,000 strong, into Kentucky. He died Sept. 27, 1876, in Galveston, Tex.
Bragg, Edward S
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1827, in Unadilla, N. Y. He received a collegiate education; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1848. He moved to Fond du Lac, Wis., commenced the practice of law in 1850, and was elected district attorney in 1854. He served in the union army from 1861 to 1865, rising to the rank of brigadier-general. He was appointed postmaster of Fond du Lac in 1866; was a state senator in 1868 and 1869; and was a delegate to the democratic national convention of 1872. He was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty-ninth congresses.
Bragg, John
congressman, was born in North Carolina. He was a representative in congress from Alabama from 1851 to 1853.
Bragg, Thomas
lawyer, United States senator, governor, was born Nov. 9, 1810, in Warrenton, N. C. He was chiefly educated at the military academy at Middletown, Conn. In 1842 he was elected to the assembly of his state; and in 1853 was a presidential elector. He was governor of North Carolina for two terms, from 1855 to 1859; and was elected a senator in congress for the term commencing in 1859. He died Jan. 21, 1872, in Raleigh.
Brain, Edwin Bell
builder, poet, was born March 27, 1853, in London, England. He has served as county commissioner, and is now county treasurer of Rock county, Neb. Besides filling various offices of trust in his county and state, he is a successful builder and farmer; and has contributed both prose and verse for the past twenty years to the periodical press.
Brainard, Daniel
surgeon, lecturer, author, was born May 15, 1812, in Whitesborough, N. Y. He was the founder of Rush Medical college of Chicago, and occupied its chair of surgery from 1843 till his death. Under Presidents Pierce and Buchanan he was surgeon of the marine hospital, Chicago. He was a corresponding member of the societies of surgery of Paris and Geneva, and published a work on rattlesnake bites; Ununited Fractures and Deformities, the American medical association prize essay for 1854; and many articles in the Chicago Medical Journal. He died Oct. 10, 1866, in Chicago, Ill.