Brewster, William – Bridgman, Laura
Brewster, William
pilgrim, was born in 1560, in England. He negotiated a grant of land for his people somewhere near the mouth of the Hudson river; and early in 1620, with a number of persons, he embarked in the ship Mayflower at Plymouth, England, setting sail Sept. 16, and arriving in Cape Cod bay on Nov. 21, 1620. He died April 16, 1644.
Brewster, William
ornithologist, author, was born July 5, 1851, in Wakefield, Mass. He has devoted his attention exclusively to the study of ornithology, becoming in 1880 assistant in charge of the collection of birds and mammals in the Boston society of natural history; and in 1885 curator of ornithology at the museum of comparative zoölogy, Cambridge. Mr. Brewster is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science, and in 1876. became president of the Nuttall ornithological club of Cambridge. He has published articles in the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club; in the Annals of the New York Lyceum of Natural History; Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History; The Auk; and other periodicals.
Brewster, William R
soldier.
He was a colonel in the Excelsior brigade, organized by Daniel E. Sickles in 1861, and after the promotion of that officer was made a brigadier-general of volunteers.
He died Dec. 13, 1869, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Breyfogel, Sylvanus C
clergyman, bishop, author, was born July 20, 1851, near Pleasantville, Pa. He served as a pastor for fourteen years; as a presiding elder for five years; and since 1891 has been a bishop in the Evangelical association.
Since 1895 he has also been president of the Evangelical School of Theology. For several years he was editor of a homiletical monthly magazine; and is the author of a work entitled Evangelical Landmarks. He has visited Europe and Japan in the performance of his episcopal duties; and traveled extensively in the United States and Canada preaching, lecturing, and presiding over ecclesiastical conferences.
Brice, Benjamin W
soldier, was born in 1809, in Virginia. He became a lawyer, and was a judge of common pleas in 1845, and adjutant-general of the state in 1846. He was promoted brigadier-general on July 28, 1866, and on Jan. 1, 1872, was retired from active service.
Brice, Calvin Stewart
soldier, educator, lawyer, United States senator, was born Sept. 17, 1845, in Denmark, Ohio.
He served through the civil war. He was delegate at large from Ohio to the St.
Louis democratic national convention in 1888; was selected to represent Ohio on the national democratic committee, and was chairman of the campaign committee for the ensuing national campaign. On the death of William H.
Barnum he was unanimously elected chairman of the national committee in 1889, and in January, 1890, was elected United States senator, to succeed Henry B. Payne, for the term of 1891-97.
Brice, John Jones
naval officer, was born Jan. 23, 1842, in Ohio. He entered the navy as a volunteer officer in 1861; and in 1882 was promoted lieutenant-commander.
Bricher, Alfred Thompson
painter, was born April 10, 1837, in Ports- THOMPSON, mouth, N. H. Among his more notable drawings are Sunset in October (1869); The Maiden's Rock, Lake Pepin; Mt.
Adams; On the Esopus (1874); Off Halifax Harbor; A Lift in the Fog (1876); St. Michael's Mount; and What the Tide Left.
Brick, Peter
lawyer, jurist, was born in December, 1847, in Ontario, Canada. He has attained success as an able lawyer of St. Cloud, Minn.; has been county attorney; and served with distinction as judge of probate of Stearns county.
Brickell, John
physician, historian. He lived at Edenton, N. C., and practiced his profession there. Later he returned to England and in 1737 published in Dublin, The Natural History of North Carolina, with an Account of the Trade, Manners and Customs of the Christian and Indian Inhabitants.
Brickell, William D
journalist, was born Nov. 19, 1852, in Steubenville, Ohio. In 1876 he established The Evening Dispatch of Columbia, Ohio.
Brickett, James
soldier, surgeon, was born in 1837. He was made lieutenantcolonel May 20, 1775, was wounded at Bunker Hill, June 17, and in the following year was made brigadier in the expedition preparing for Canada. After Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga (Oct. 17, 1777), Gen. Brickett was placed in command of the escort, and marched the prisoners, about 6,000 in number, from the battlefield on Hudson river to Cambridge, Mass. He died Dec. 9, 1818, in Haverhill, Mass.
Brickner, George H
manufacturer, congressman, was born Jan. 21, 1834, in Germany. He moved to Ohio in 1840; was educated in the common schools; and became a successful woolen manufacturer of Sheboygan Falls, Wis. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second and fiftythird congresses as a democrat.
Bridewell, Lemuel Owens
soldier, lawyer, journalist, was born Nov. 2, 1829, in Port Gibson, Miss. He graduated from the Union college of Schenectady, N. Y., with the degree of A. M. In 1851 he was admitted to the bar; and the same year founded the Reveille of Port Gibson, Miss., of which he was editor until 1854. In 1854-55 he was clerk in the interior department; and judge of the probate and orphans' court of his county in 1855-58. In 1861 he became a captain in the confederate army, and subsequently was promoted to major. He is the author of several works, and still practices law in Beauregard, Miss.
Bridge, Horatio
naval officer, lawyer, journalist, was born April 8, 1806, in Augusta, Maine. He published The Journal of an African Cruiser, the authorship of which is usually accredited to his classmate, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book was, in fact, edited by Hawthorne from Bridge's notes. He was assigned to duty as chief of the bureau of provisions and clothing, the duties of which he faithfully performed for nearly fifteen years, covering the whole period of the civil war, and involving transactions and disbursements to the amount of many millions of dollars. He was retired with the rank of commodore. He died March 20, 1893, in Athens, Pa.
Bridge, James Howard
author, was born in 1858, in England. He is the author of A Fortnight in Heaven, an Unconventional Romance; and Uncle Sam at Home.
Bridges, Albert F
clergyman, journalist, author, was born Aug. 22, 1853, in Poland, Ind. During 1874-81 he filled pastorates in the Indiana conference of the methodist episcopal church. For nine years he was editor and owner of The Register of Brazil, Ind.; and is the author of A History of Brazil and other works.
Bridges, Fidelia
artist, was born May 19, 1835, in Salem, Mass. She sent to the National academy, in oil, Winter Sunshine and Wild Flowers in Wheat; Blackberry Bushes; Thistles, Yellow Birds, Cornfield, and Salt Marshes. She began painting in water-colors in 1871, in which she has been eminently successful.
Bridges, George Washington
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1821, in Athens, Tenn. He was attorneygeneral of the state in 1849 and in 1854, holding the office for eleven years. He held the positions of bank attorney and railroad director; was a presidential elector in 1860; and was elected a representative in congress from Tennessee in 1861, to serve in the thirty-seventh congress. He died March 16, 1873.
Bridges, Robert
editor, author, was born July 13, 1858, in Shippensburgh, Pa. He graduated from the Princeton college in 1879. In 1881 he was connected with the New York Evening Post; in 1887 became one of the editors of Scribner's Magazine; and since 1873 has been literary critic of New York Life. He is the author of Overheard in Arcady, and Suppressed Chapters; and Other Bookishness. • BRIDGES, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 27, 1802, in Colchester, Conn. For seven years he was deputy attorney-general of the state for Lehigh county. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1848 to 1849, and from 1853 to 1855; and was again a representative in the fortyfifth congress. He died Jan. 14, 1884, in Allentown, Pa.
Bridgman, Frederick Arthur
painter, was born Nov. 10, 1847, in Tuskegee, Ala. In 1890 he opened a studio in Paris for the instruction of women students. His best known works are Funeral of a Mummy; The American Circus in Brittany; Bringing in the Maize; Pastimes of an Assyrian King; and Procession of the Bull Apis.
Bridgman, John Ladd
farmer, public official, was born Nov. 26, 1817, in Hanover, N. H. He has been sheriff, county commissioner, vice-president and director of the National bank, and trustee of the Saving bank of his native city; and for twenty-seven years was chairman of the Board of Selectmen. He is a successful farmer, and has been a prominent factor in the public affairs in his city, county and state for more than half a century.
Bridgman, Laura
blind deaf mute, was born Dec. 2, 1829, in Hanover, N. H.
She was born with the enjoyment of all her faculties, but at two years old lost her sight, hearing, smell, and partially her taste by a severe fit of sickness. At eight years she was placed under the care of Dr. S. G. Howe, in the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, with what results every one knows. She can read from raised letters, write, and skillfully play the piano, make fine crochetwork, and select colors all by the sense of touch; being the first person so afflicted who was educated. She died May 24, 1889, in Boston, Mass.