Brainard, David Legg – Brandt, John Baughman
Brainard, David Legg
soldier, explorer, was born Dec. 21, 1856, in Norway, N. Y. He participated in the Indian campaigns under General Miles, and was wounded in the face in action with the Sioux at Muddy Creek, Montana, May 7, 1877. In the following August he was one of the four men selected to act as escort to General Sherman and party in their tour through the national park. In July, 1879, he was promoted sergeant, and in May, 1880, recommended for detail on the Howgate polar expedition.
Brainard, John
clergyman, was born June 4, 1830, in Hartford, Conn. He has filled various pastorates in Connecticut and Maryland; and in 1863 accepted the rectorship at St. Peter's of Auburn, N. Y.
Brainard, John Gardiner Cal- Kins
journalist, poet, was born Oct. 21, 1796, in New London, Conn. He was for a time editor of the Connecticut Mirror, and produced a volume of poems. His Falls of Niagara, written while the printer's boy was waiting for his regular contribution to the paper, is generally considered the best short poem written on that subject, and is one of the gems of American literature. He died Sept. 26, 1828, in New London, Conn.
Braine, Daniel Lawrence
naval officer, was born May 18, 1829, in New York city. In 1861 he attacked the confederate gunboats above Cape Hatteras and dispersed two regiments of infantry, sinking two barges filled with soldiers, and rescuing the twentieth Indiana regiment, who were cut off from Hatteras inlet by the enemy. On July 15, 1862, he received his commission as lieutenantcommander, and from that time till 1864 was in numerous engagements. He became captain in December, 1874, and commodore in 1885.
Brainerd, David
missionary, author, was born March 20, 1718, in Haddam, Conn. He was a famous missionary among the Indians of New England. Selections from his journals have been printed, entitled Miriabilia Dei apud Indicos; and Divine Grace Displayed. He died Oct. 9, 1747, in Northampton, Conn.
Brainerd, Lawrence
business man, United States senator, was born in 1794. He was a senator in congress from Vermont during the session of 1854 and 1855; and was for many years a leading business man in the town of St. Albans, Vt. He died May 9, 1870, in St. Albans, Vt.
Brainerd, Samuel M
congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1842, in Erie county, Pa. He received an academical education; was admitted to the bar in 1869; and has since practiced his profession in Erie, Pa. In 1872 he was elected district attorney of his county; and was elected to the forty-eighth congress as a republican.
Brainerd, Thomas
clergyman, journalist, was born June 17, 1804, in Leyden, N. Y. He took charge of the Fourth presbyterian church in 1831. From 1833 till 1836 he edited the Cincinnati Journal and the Youth's Magazine, and also assisted in editing the Presbyterian Quarterly Review. He died Aug. 21, 1866, in Scranton, Pa.
Brake, Hezekiah
farmer, author, was born Dec. 4, 1814, in England; is the author of a work entitled On Two Continents. He has had a varied career; has filled various offices of trust in Council Grove, Kan., where he has attained success in various enterprises, and has always been interested in educational work.
Braman, Benjamin
microscopist, journalist, was born Nov. 23, 1831, in Norton, Mass. During 1863-64 he was teaching at Astoria, and after that date taught drawing in the Cooper union and elsewhere in New York. He is a skillful microscopist, and from its first issue has edited the Journal of the New York Microscopical Society, of which organization he has some time been president.
Bramlette, Thomas E
soldier, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Jan. 3, 1817, in Cumberland county, Ky. He was appointed attorney for the commonwealth in 1848; resigned this position in two years, and resumed the practice of law. In 1856 he was elected judge of the sixth judicial district; and in 1861 resigned this office to enter the federal army as colonel of the third Kentucky infantry. He was appointed United States district attorney, and resigned to accept the nomination for governor; and was elected, in 1863, for four years. He died Jan. 12, 1875, in Louisville, Ky.
Branch, John
lawyer, United States senator, governor, was born Nov. 4, 1782, in Halifax county, N. C. In 1811 he was elected a state senator; re-elected every year until 1817, and was then elected governor of the state. He again entered the state senate in 1822; served in the United States senate from 1823 to 1829; and was in the latter year appointed secretary of the navy. In 1831 he was elected to a seat in congress as representative from North Carolina; and in 1834 was again elected to the state senate. In 1835 he was elected a member of the convention to revise the state constitution; and in 1843 was appointed governor of the territory of Florida. He died Jan. 4, 1863, in Enfield, N. C.
Branch, Lawrence O'Brien
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born July 7, 1820, in Halifax county, N. C. He was elected a representative from North Carolina to the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He took part in the great rebellion as a general, and was killed at the battle of Sharpsburg, Sept. 17, 1862.
Branch, Mrs. Mary Lydia Bol- Les
author, poet, was born June 13, 1840, in New London, Conn. She is best known by her poem, The Petrified Fern, and is the author of The Kanter Girls, which is a story for young people.
Branch, William a. B
soldier, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1847, in Tallahassee, Fla. He entered the Virginia Military institute, remaining there a few months, when he joined the confederate army; served as a courier on staff of general R. F. Hoke; and surrendered with General Johnston's army in 1865. He studied law under governor Thomas Bragg, of North Carolina, but never practiced. At the age of twenty he took charge of his landed estate in Beaufort county, N. C., upon which he has lived ever since, engaged in agriculture. He was elected to the fifty-second and re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Branch, William Alpheus
educator, was born Aug. 9, 1861, in Jeffersonville, Ill. In 1888 he was elected principal of schools in Menno, S. D.; at the end of three years was appointed county superintendent of schools, and in 1893 was elected to the same position. He has been most successful in his teachers' institutes, and is one of the foremost educators in South Dakota.
Brand, James
soldier, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 26, 1834, in Three Rivers, Canada. He served as a colorbearer of the twenty-seventh regiment Connecticut volunteer infantry; and fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. For four years he filled a pastorate in the Congregational church at Danvers, Mass.; and since 1873 has been pastor of the First Congregational church of Oberlin, Ohio. He is the author of two books entitled Sermons from a College Pulpit, and Beasts of Ephesus.
Brandebury, L. G
jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. He was appointed from that state chief justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah.
Brandegee, Augustus
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born July 15, 1828, in New London, Conn. He was elected in 1854, 1858, 1859 and 1861, a member of the Connecticut legislature; and was chosen speaker in the latter year.
In 1861 he was a presidential elector; and was elected a representative from Connecticut to the thirty-eighth congress. He was a delegate to the Baltimore convention of 1864; and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress.
Brandeis, Frederick
pianist, composer, was born July 5, 1835, in Vienna, Austria. In 1880 he became organist of a synagogue in New York, and in 1886 organist of St. Peter's and St. Paul's Roman Catholic church. His compositions include an introduction and capriccio; grand march and numerous others.
Brandon, George C
statesman.
He was governor of Mississippi from 1827 to 1831.
Brandreth, Benjamin
manufacturer, state senator, was born June 22, 1808, in England. After coming to America he graduated from the Eclectic Medical college of New York city. In 1857, he built the Brandreth house of New York city. The secret of the enormous sale of the Brandreth medicines lay in the fact that during the first fifteen years or more, he expended almost his entire profits of $150,000 a year in advertising.
He was elected to the state senate in 1849, and served four years. He was frequently a delegate to the conventions of his party. He died Feb. 19, 1880, in Sing Sing, N. Y.
Brandreth, William
capitalist, was born Oct. 22, 1842, in Sing Sing, N. Y.
In 1868 he became interested in real estate, and established the firm of Howland and Brandreth of Sing Sing, N. Y. He was interested in the manufacturing of iron and steel directly from the ore by the action of flame, at a cost less than that. of the ordinary methods of production, which led him to establish the Carbon Iron company.
Brandt, Carl Ludwig
soldier, artist, was born Sept. 22, 1831, in Hamburg, Germany. He served in the war of 1848- '50, between Germany and Denmark, and came to the United States in 1852.
Among his works are A Dish of Alpine Strawberries; The Fortune Teller; Return from the Alps; Monte Rosa at Sunrise; Bay of Naples During Eruption of Vesuvius in 1867; Etna from Taurinino, Sicily; Resignation; and The Golden Treasures of Mexico.
Brandt, John Baughman
soldier, clergyman, was born Aug. 29, 1838, near For four years he Lancaster, Ohio. served in the union army, and was promoted to captain. In 1886 he was ordained a clergyman in the presbyterian church, and has filled pastorates principally in Indianapolis and St. Louis. He has organized and built a number of churches, and is the founder of the gen-- eral secretaries' conference. .