Breck, Daniel – Breidenthal, John W
Breck, Daniel
soldier, lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, was born in 1788 in Boston, Mass. His first public position in Kentucky was that of judge of a county court. In 1824 he was elected to the state legislature; and was reelected for five years. From 1835 until 1840 he was president of the Branch bank of Kentucky at Richmond; in 1840 was a presidential elector; in 1843 was appointed judge of the supreme court of Kentucky; and was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1849 to 1851. He died in 1871.
Breck, Joseph
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 17, 1810, in Boston, Mass. In 1834 he was admitted to the bar and for many years was a magistrate in the city of Baltimore. In 1849 he moved to New York city, where he has taken a prominent part in the public affairs of that city.
Breck, Robert
clergyman, author, was born July 25, 1713. He was graduated at Harvard in 1730, and was clergy. man of Springfield from July 26, 1736, till his death. He published funeral sermons and a century sermon on the burning of Springfield by the Indians. He died April 23, 1784, in Springfield, Mass.
Breck, Samuel
congressman, was born July 17, 1771, in Boston, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1823 to 1825. He died Sept. 1, 1862, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Breck, Samuel
soldier, was born Feb. 25, 1834, in Middleborough, Mass.
In 1851 he entered the United States mili-. tary academy at West Point, N. Y.; he graduated four years later, and was promoted in the army to brevet second lieutenant of artillery. He went through all the grades and made brigadier general in the United States army in 1865, was for diligent, faithful and meritorious services during the rebellion. Since 1870 he has served in California, New York, Washington, D. C., Minnesota, Omaha, and is now serving on Governor's Island, N. Y. In 1887 he was appointed lieutenant-colonel, assistant adjutant general; and in 1893 was made colonel and assistant adjutant general.
Breck, William
merchant, legislator, was born Dec. 17, 1825, in Croydon, N. H. In 1853 he established himself in business in California, and eventually returned to Claremont, N. H., where he died in 1889. He was a member of the state legislature.
Breckenridge, Clifton R
soldier, business man, congressman, was born Nov. 22, 1846, in Lexington, Ky. He entered the confederate service. He engaged in cotton planting in Arkansas; also in the commission business at Pine Bluff, Ark.; and was elected a representative from Arkansas to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.
Breckenridge, James
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 7, 1763, in Fincastle, Va. In 1781 he was a soldier in Colonel Preston's rifle regiment under General Greene. He was a prominent leader of the old federal party in the general assembly of the state; and was a member of the United States congress from 1809 to 1817. He was one of the originators of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal; and with Mr. Jefferson, a founder of the university of Virginia. He died Aug. 9, 1846, in Fincastle, Va.
Breckenridge, James D
congressman, was born in Jefferson county, Ky. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1821 to 1823. He died May, 1849, in Louisville, Ky.
Breckenridge, John
lawyer, legislator, United States senator, author, was born Dec. 2, 1760, in Augusta county, Va.
He was the author and advocate of the celebrated Resolutions of 1798-99, in the legislature of Virginia. He emigrated to Kentucky; and was elected United States senator in 1801. He was appointed attorney general of the United States and served during 1805-06. He died Dec. 14, 1806, in Lexington, Ky.
Breckenridge, John Cabell
soldier, general, vice-president of the United States, was born Jan. 16, 1821, near Lexington, Ky.
He served as a major of infantry during the war with Mexico, and while in that country distinguished himself as the counsel of Major-General Pillow during the famous court martial. On his return from Mexico he was elected to the state legislature.
He was a representative in congress from the Ashland district from 1851 to 1855.
He was elected vice-president of the United States in 1856, on the ticket with James Buchanan, and entered upon the duties of his office in March, 1857, as president of the United States senate. In 1860 he was nominated by the southern democratic party as their candidate for president. In 1861 he went into the senate as the successor of Mr. Crittenden. He took part in the great rebellion as a general; and in 1865 was appointed secretary of war of the confederacy. He died May 17, 1875, in Lexington, Ky.
Breckenridge, Robert Jeffer- Son
clergyman, author, was born March 8, 1800, in Cabell's Dale, Ky. He was a noted presbyterian clergyman of Lexington, Ky.; and the author of Popery; Internal Evidence of Christianity; Memoranda of Foreign Travel; and Travels in France, Germany, etc. His chief work was a system of theology, The Knowledge of God, Objectively and Subjectively Considered. He was a writer of very positive views, and one of the leaders in the division of the presbyterian church into old and new school in 1837. He died Dec. 27, 1871, in Danville, Ky.
Breckenridge, William Camp- Bell Preston
soldier, journalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 28, 1837, in Baltimore, Md. In 1862 he entered the confederate army as cap. tain of cavalry; rose to the rank of colonel, and, at the time of the surrender, was in command of a brigade of Kentucky cavalry. He was editor of the Lex-- ington Observer and Reporter from 1866 to 1868; county attorney from 1866 to 1870; member of the city council of Lexington from 1870 to 1879; and professor of equity, jurisprudence and pleadings in the law department of the Kentucky university in 1872. He was presidential elector in 1872; delegate to the democratic national conventions of 1876 and 1880, and was elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.
Breed, David Riddle
clergyman, author, was born in 1848 in Pennsylvania.
He is a presbyterian minister of Chicago; and the author of More Light; Abraham, the Typical Life of Faith; History of the Preparation of the World for Christ; and Heresy and Heresy.
Breed, William Pratt
clergyman, author, was born in 1816 in New York. He is a presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. His works are mainly religious juveniles, and among them are Jenny Geddes; Home Songs for Home Birds; Grapes from the Great Vine; and A Board and Abroad.
Breeden, Marshall A
lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 22, 1848, in Maysville, Ky. He graduated from the Mount Ziam academy, Ill., and became a union soldier at the age of fifteen years.
During 1872-73 he was clerk of the supreme court of New Mexico; during 1873- 84 was postmaster of Santa Fe, N. M.; and in 1884-88 was public prosecutor for the northern district of New Mexico. In 1894 he was president of the Utah state senate, and now practices law in Ogden.
Breese, Kidder Randolph
naval officer, was born April 14, 1831, in Philadelphia, Pa. As passed midshipman he served in Commodore Perry's Japan expedition and was on the Macedonian, which visited the northern end of Formosa to search for coal and inquire into the captivity of Americans on that island.
He next served on the San Jacinto, which captured 1,500 slaves on the coast of Africa and took Mason and Slidell from on board the Trent in November, 1861. He died Sept. 13, 1881.
Breese, Samuel Livingston
naval officer, was born in 1794 in Utica, N. Y. He was present at une battle of Lake Champlain in 1814; was present at the capture of Vera Cruz in 1847; and was promoted to rear admiral in 1862. He died Dec. 17, 1870, in Mt. Airey, Pa.
Breese, Sidney
soldier, lawyer, jurist, legislator, author, was born July 15, 1800, in Whitesborough, N. Y. In 1822 he was appointed state attorney, which office he held until 1827, when he was appoint-- ed United States district attorney for Illinois. In 1829 he published a volume of Decisions of the Supreme Court, which now bears his name, and was the first octavo volume published in the state. He served in the Black Hawk war as a lieutenant of volunteers; and in 1835 was elected a circuit judge. He was a senator in congress from Illinois from 1843 to 1849. In 1850 he became a member of the Illinois legislature, and was elected speaker. He was one of the originators of the Illinois Central railroad and in 1855 was again placed on the circuit court bench, and made chief judge. He published a work on Illinois in 1869. He died June 27, 1878, in Pinckneyville, Ill.
Brehm, Miriam J
poet, was born Sept. 6, 1845, in Hinesburgh, N. Y. For many years she was engaged in educational work, and is the author of many poems of merit, and several of her songs have become very popular.
Breidenbaugh, Edward Swoy- Er
educator, author, was born Jan. 13, 1849, in Newville, Pa. He is a professor of chemistry in Pennsylvania college; and the author of Notes on Inorganic Chemistry; and Mineralogy of the Farm.
Breidenthal, John W
public official, was born June 22, 1857, in Sibley county, Minn. He has been prominent in political affairs; assisted in the formation of the union labor party at Cincinnati, in 1887; received a large vote for United States senator in January, 1893, and since February of that year has been state bank commissioner of Kansas.