Breil, Joseph – Brevoort, James Renwick
Breil, Joseph
lawyer, was born June, 1849, in Germany. He has attained success as a noted lawyer of Pittsburg, Pa.; is considered the best linguist at the Pittsburg bar; and can write and speak and transact business in six languages.
Breitung, Edward
capitalist, legislator, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1831, in Germany. He engaged in business at Negaunee, Mich., as a capitalist and land speculator, and in iron mining. In 1872 he was elected a representative in the state legislature for the term of two years; was state senator in 1877-78; and was elected mayor of Negaunee in 1878-80, and 1882. He elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-eighth congress as a republican. He died March 3, 1887. was
Breman, Dominic M
priest, poet, was born about 1865 in Albany, N. Y.
After completing a preparatory course he studied philosophy and theology among the Passionist fathers, and was admitted to orders in 1892. For three years he has been associate editor of The Union and Times of Buffalo, N. Y. He is the author of Heart-Tones, a collected edition of his poems.
Bremicker, Charles
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 16, 1862, in Germany.
He graduated from the Presbyterian ian seminary of Dubuque, Iowa; and the McCormick Theological seminary of Chicago. He has filled pastorates in the presbyterian church in Texas and Illinois; and is the author of the Life and Works of Vonder Lippe, a noted clergyman of the presbyterian church.
Breneman, Abram Adam
chemist, lecturer, author, was born April 28, 1847, , author, was born April 28, 1847, in Lancaster, Pa. In 1875 he was pointed assistant professor and lecturer apon chemistry at Cornell, where from 1879 till 1882 he was professor of industrial chemistry. Since then he has resided in New York, where he has been actively engaged in professional work as a writer, an analyst, and a chemical expert. He has written on the chemistry of ceramic manufactures and delivered a course of lectures on that subject in New York. With Prof. G. C. Caldwell be has published A Manual of Introductory Laboratory Practice.
Brengle, Francis
congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1845. He died Dec. 10, 1846.
Brennan, Edgar H
railroad president, was born June 15, 1851, in Louisville , Ky. He is president of the Port Clinton Short Line, and he has also been president of various other railroads in Ohio.
Brennan, John R
man of affairs, was born May 22, 1848, in Ireland. He received his education in the commo11 schools of Iowa county, Wis. For thirtytwo years he was engaged in the hotel business in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and Denver. For nearly ten years he was postmaster of Rapid City, S. D.; has been its mayor; and is also president of the Dakota State School of Mines. During 1892-96 he was railroad commissioner for the state of South Dakota.
Brennan, Thomas
lumberman, was born in November, 1838, in Ireland. He was superintendent of the Duluth road, but resigned the position in order to accept the superintendency of the Manitoba railroad. In 1881 he gave up railroading to engage in the lumber business, and so successful was this venture that he became known as one of the largest operators in the northwest. He died March 1, 1890, in Hot Springs.
Brennen, William James
lawyer, was born Sept. 5, 1850, in Pittsburg, Pa.
He was democratic candidate for auditorgeneral in 1886, and as a representative in ty-second Pennsylvania district. He is the fifty-second congress from the twenthe attorney for the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers of Pittsburg, Pa.
Brenner, John L
business man, congressman, was born in 1832 in Ohio.
He attended the Springfield, Ohio, academy; and was engaged in farming until 1862, when he engaged in the nursery business, which pursuit he followed quite successfully until 1874, when he then engaged in the leaf tobacco business. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Brent, Henry Johnson
author, was born in 1811 in Washington, D. C. He contributed to Porter's Spirit of the Times, over the well-known signature of Stirrup, and was the associate of Lewis Gaylord Clark in founding and editing the Knickerbocker, a magazine that enjoyed great popularity from 1833 until 1864. He was also a painter. His best literary work was Life Almost Alone, published as a serial in the Knickerbocker, and Was it a Ghost? a theory and discussion of the celebrated murder of the Joyce children. He died Aug. 3, 1880, in New York city.
Brent, Richard
United States senator, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1795 to 1799, and again from 1801 to 1803; and was a senator in congress from 1809 to 1814. He died Dec. 30, 1814, in Washington, D. C.
Brent, William L
congressman, was born in Charles county, Md. He was a representative in congress from Louisiana from 1823 to 1829. He died in July, 1848. legislator, congressman, was born Nov.
Brentano, Lorenzo
journalist, journalist, 14, 1813, in Germany. He became editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, and in 1862 was a member of the state legislature. For five years he was president of the Chicago board of education. In 1868 he was presidential elector on the Grant and Colfax ticket.
He was appointed.
United States consul at Dresden in 1872, and served until 1876, when he was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.
Brenton, Andrew T
physician, was born Sept. 15, 1847, in Indianapolis, Ind. He received his education at the Iowa state university; and graduated in medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Keokuk, Iowa. He has attained prominence as one of the leading physicians of Iowa; and has held various public positions of honor in Sac City of that state.
Brenton, Samuel
clergyman, college president, congressman, was born Nov. 22, 1810, in Gallatin, Ky. He was a twenty until 1848. He was elected to minister of the gospel from the age of congress from Indiana in 1851, and again in 1855. He was also president of the Fort Wayne college. He died March 29, 1857, in Fort Wayne, Ind.
Brenton, William
governor of Rhode Island, was born in England. He was lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island prior to 1660, president of the colony between 1660 and 1661, and governor under the charter obtained from Charles II. from 1666 till 1669. His original grant gave him a certain number of acres for every mile of land surveyed, and on the strength of this he secured much valuable property. He was one of the nine original proprietaries of Rhode Island. His name is preserved in Brenton's Point and Brenton's Reef, Narragansett Bay. He died in 1674, in Newport, R. I.
Brents, Thomas Hurley
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Dec. 24, 1840, near Florence, Ill. He received his education at the common schools; the Baptist college of Oregon City; and the Mc- Minnville college, Oregon. He was appointed justice of the peace, was the first postmaster of Canyon City; and the first county clerk of Grant county. In 1866 he was elected a member of the Oregon state legislature. In 1870 he moved to Walla Walla, Wash., and was made prosecuting attorney of that city. He was seventh, and forty-eighth congresses as member of the forty-sixth, fortya representative from Washington; and has served as judge of the superior court for Walla Walla county. a
Bretz, John L
educator, lawyer, jurist, banker, congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1852, near Huntingburg, Ind.
He was educated in common country schools and Huntingburg high school; taught school three years; read law under Hon. W. A. Traylor, and graduated from the Cincinnati Law school in 1880.
He located in Jasper the same year; was elected prosecuting attorney of the eleventh judicial circuit in 1884; and was re-elected in 1886 and 1888. He was elected to the fifty-second and re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat; after retiring from congress in 1895, returned to the practice of law; is president of Farmers' and Merchants' bank of Jasper, Ind.; and vice-president of Springfield, Ohio River and South Atlantic Railway company.
Brevard, Ephraim
patriot, physician, surgeon, was born about 1750. He was the author of the Mecklenburg declaration of independence. In May, 1775, he was clerk of the convention held in Charlotte, Mecklenburg county, and, as one of the committee to prepare resolutions, produced the famous document by which they anticipated by more than a year the declaration by congress. When the British invaded the southern states, Dr. Brevard entered the continental army as a surgeon, and was taken prisoner at Charleston in 1780. He died about 1783, in Charlotte, N. C.
Brevard, James
congressman, was born in Iredell county, N. C. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1819 to 1821.
Brevoort, Henry
was born in 1791.
He inherited a large landed estate on Manhattan island, which became extremely valuable as the city increased in population. He was of literary taste and the life-long friend of Washington Irving, with whom he traveled in Europe and corresponded for half a century. He removed, in early life, to Yonkers, but returned to New York and was a member of the common council for many years. He died April 11, 1874, in Rye, N. Y.
Brevoort, James Renwick
painter, was born July 20, 1832, in Westchester, N. Y. He is very successful in the treatment of American landscape in a low tone of color, this being his favorite line of work. Among his pictures are Scene in Holland; Lake of Como; Storm on English England Scene; Morning in Early Winter; Moor; May Morning, Lake Como; New The Wild November Comes at Last:
Windy Evening on the Moors; and Windy Day on a Moor.