Brannan, Samuel – Breck, Charles Hamden
Brannan, Samuel
pioneer, journalist, was born in 1819, in Saco, Me. He was an elder in that church, and arrived in San Francisco in July, 1846, as leader of the Mormon colony sent out in the ship Brooklyn from New York. He began the publication of a newspaper, the Star, the second in California and the first published in the San Francisco district.
Brannan, William Penn
painter, was born in 1825 in Ohio. He was a portrait painter of Cincinnati, and the author of Vagaries of Vandyke Brown; and The Harp of a Thousand Strings, or Laughter for a Life Time. He died Aug. 9, 1866, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Brannon, John Milton
soldier, was born in 1819 in Washington, D. C.
He received the brevet of major-general of volunteers in 1865, and on March 13, 1865, was brevetted brigadier-general in the regular army, and major-general for gallant and meritorious services during the war.
Bransford, Clifton Wood
journalist, orator, banker, was born Jan. 24, 1858, in Owensboro, Ky. He attended Bransford institute (which was founded by his father) and graduated in 1887 from the Cumberland university of Lebanon, Tenn. In 1877-78 he attended the Louisville Law school; but subsequently abandoned law to enter journalism; and for ten years he was editor of The Messenger of Owensboro, Ky. Since 1887 he has been successfully engaged in the milling business, and is the proprietor of the Bransford Mills and Elevator. He was instrumental in organizing the Owensboro Banking company, of which he has always been president. He is also prominently identified with various business enterprises of his city; and was unanimously chosen elector on the Bryan and Sewall ticket, but resigned before election. He has also attained prominence as an eloquent orator.
Brant, David
journalist, legislator, was born July 6, 1850, in Shelbyville, Ind.
He received his education in the state university of Iowa; and for twenty years has been a successful editorial writer and press correspondent. He served in the Iowa legislature in the regular and special sessions of the twenty-sixth general assembly, and took an active part in the deliberations of that body.
Brantley, William G
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 18, 1860, in Blackshear, Ga. He represented Pierce county in the Georgia house of representatives in 1884-85; represented third senatorial district in Georgia senate in 1886-87; was elected solicitor-general of Brunswick circuit in 1888 for a term of four years, and re-elected in 1892 for another term of four years. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Brasher, Abraham
soldier, poet, was born Dec. 2, 1734, in New York city.
He was one of the most active associates of the liberty boys of his native city, and wrote many of the popular ballads of the revolutionary period. Among his poetical productions were Another New Year's Address, and the General's Trip to Morristown, which were favorites in the American camp. He died in 1782.
Braswell, Thomas Jefferson
lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 28, 1852, in DeKalb county, Tenn. In 1881 he became a member of the Missouri state legislature, and received the re-election the following year. During 1888-94 he was prosecuting attorney of Oregon county, Mo., and has attained prominence as one of the foremost lawyers of Missouri.
Brattle, Thomas
merchant, author, was born in 1657, in Massachusetts. He was a once famous Boston merchant, and the author of Eclipse of the Sun and Moon Observed in New England; and Lunar Eclipse in New England, 1707. He died May 18, 1713, in Boston, Mass.
BRATTLE, WILLIAM, clergyman, author, was born in 1763. He was pastor of the church in Cambridge, having been previously a tutor in Harvard college.
He published a treatise on logic entitled Compendium Logicæ Secundum Principia D. Renati Cartesii, which was long used as a recitation book in the college.
He died Feb. 15, 1717.
Bratton, John
soldier, physician, congressman, was born March 7, 1831, in Winnsboro, S. C. He enlisted in the confederate army in 1861 and served throughout the war, attaining the rank of brigadier-general. He was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1865; was a member of the state senate in 1866; was chairman of the South Carolina delegation to the democratic national convention in 1876, and a member of the democratic state committee the same year. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the democratic national convention of 1880.
In 1881 he was elected, by the legislature, comptroller-general of the state of South Carolina, to fill a vacancy, and in 1884 he was elected a representative from South Carolina to the forty-eighth congress.
Braun, Christian
business man, was born Sept. 5, 1858, in Paterson, N. J.
He was made a candidate for mayor of the city of Paterson in 1893, and elected by an immense majority.
Braunhart, Samuel
business man, state senator, was born Jan. 1, 1848, in Germany. In 1880 he was elected a member of the assembly of the California state legislature, and in 1897 became a member of the state senate. He has filled numerous public offices in San Francisco.
Brawley, William H
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1841 in South Carolina. He served in the confederate army, and was solicitor of the sixth judicial circuit. He served in the legislature of South Carolina, and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat; was elected to the fiftythird congress and served until February, 1894, when he was appointed United States judge for North Carolina by President Cleveland.
Braxton, Carter
legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1736, on the Mattapony river, Va. In 1760 he was elected to the house of burgesses, in which he was conspicuous. He was a delegate from Virginia to the continental congress in 1776, and signed the Declaration of Independence. After that service he frequently served in the Virginia legislature. He died Oct. 10, 1797, in Richmond, Va.
Braxton, Elliott M
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1823, in Matthews county, Va. He was elected to the state senate in 1851, and reelected in 1853. He was elected to the common council of Fredericksburg in 1866, and was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-second congress.
Bray, Andrew Watson
insurance manager, was born July 24, 1855, in Rockaway, N. J. He was one of the valued agents of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad; and subsequently assumed the management in New Jersey for the Mutual Life Insurance company.
Brayman, Mason
soldier, lawyer, journalist, governor, was born May 23, 1813, in Buffalo, N. Y. He was brought up as a farmer, but became a printer, edited the Buffalo Bulletin in 1834-35, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1836. In 1842 he opened a law office in Springfield, Ill. In 1844-45 he revised and published the statutes of Illinois under the appointment of the governor and the authority of the legislature. He afterwards became interested in railroad enterprises. He served through the civil war; and in 1876-80 was governor of the territory of Idaho.
Brayton, George Bailey
inventor, was born Oct. 23, 1829, in Crompton, R. I. He was the inventor of a safety steam boiler, and of the high pressure gas engine.
Brayton, Samuel Nelson
educator, physician, journalist, was born Jan. 11, 1839, in Queensbury, N. Y. He engaged in practice in Honeoye Falls, N.
Y., removed to Buffalo in 1877, and became professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the Buffalo college of physicians and surgeons upon its establishment, and dean of the faculty in 1881. He is also editor of the Eclectic Physicians' and Surgeons' Investigator, a monthly homeopathic journal, published in Buffalo.
Brayton, William D
state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 6, 1815, in Warwick, R. I. In 1841 he was elected to the state assembly, serving two terms.
In 1848 he was elected to the state senate; again elected to the state assembly in 1851; and in 1855 was a second time elected state senator. He was presidential elector in 1856; and was elected a member from Rhode Island to the thirtyfifth and thirty-sixth congresses.
Brazza, Cora
author, was born in 1862 in Louisiana. She is the author of An American Idyl; a Literary Farce; and Guide to the Old and New Race in Italy.
Breare, George W
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 28, 1858, in Newton, Ala.
In 1880 he moved to Florida, and the following year was appointed justice of the peace, which he filled for eight years, in Suwannee county. In 1896 he was elected county judge of Lafayette county, Fla., and received the re-election the following year.
Brearly, David
soldier, jurist, was born in 1745. He was lieutenant-colonel in the revolutionary army and a brave officer. He was a member of the state and federal constitutional conventions of New Jersey; chief justice in that state for nine years; and in 1789 was appointed United States judge for the district of New Jersey. He died Aug. 16, 1790, in Trenton, N. J.
Breathitt, John
educator, lawyer, legislator, governor, was born Sept. 9, 1786, in New London, Va. He was a surveyor and school teacher; and was admitted to the bar in 1810. He was several years in the legislature; was lieutenant-governor from 1828 to 1832; and was governor of Kentucky from 1832 to 1834.
He died Feb. 21, 1834, in Frankfort, Ky.
Breathitt, John W
jurist, was born Jan. 9, 1825, in Hopkinsville, Ky.
He has been postmaster of his native city; judge of Christian county; and has taken an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state.
Breck, Charles Hamden
lawyer, jurist, was born June 26, 1837. He is a successful lawyer of Richmond, Va., where for a number of years he has been judge of the county court.