Bright, John Morgan – Brister, Edwin M. P
Bright, John Morgan
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1817, in Fayetteville, Tenn. He was a member of the legislature of Tennessee in 1847 and 1848. He was elected to the forty-second congress; was re-elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a democrat.
Bright, Jonathan Brown
author, was born April 23, 1800, in Waltham, Mass. He became interested in genealogy, and made many researches into his family history both here and in England, the results of which were published in a volume intended for private distribution, which has been pronounced a model for works of its kind. It is entitled The Brights of Suffolk, England, represented in America by the Descendants of Henry Bright, Jr., who settled at Watertown, Mass., about 1630. He left to Harvard college $50,000, the income to be divided between the purchase of books and the support of scholarships, to which Brights lineally descended from Henry Bright, Jr., should have priority of claim. He died Dec. 17, 1879, in Waltham, Mass.
Bright, Marshal H
soldier, journalist, lecturer, author, was born Aug. 18, 1834, in Hudson, N. Y. In 1854 he became assistant editor of the Albany Argus, and was a reporter in the New York state senate. He was brevetted major for his services during the war, and, after resigning his commission at its close, engaged in silver mining in Nevada. In 1873 he became managing editor of the Christian at Work, of New York city, and in 1880 its editor-in-chief.
He has contributed to periodicals on theological, scientific and philosophical subjects, and has delivered public addresses.
Brightly, Francis Frederick
author, was born Feb. 25, 1845, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of Digest of the Laws of Philadelphia, 1701-1887.
Brightly, Frederick Charles
jurist, author, was born Aug. 26, 1812, in England. He is an eminent Philadelphia jurist, and the author of Treatise on Law of Costs; Nisi Prius Reports; Equitable Jurisdiction of the Laws of Pennsylvania; Digest of the Laws of the United States, 1789-1869; Digest of the Decisions of the Federal Courts; Bankrupt Law of the United States; and Leading Cases in the Law of Elections, include the larger number of his legal writings. He died in 1888.
Brignoli, Pasquale
vocalist, was born in 1824, in Naples. He has attained a national reputation as a vocalist, and is the author of Martha; and Good-Bye, Sweetheart, Good-bye. He died Oct. 30, 1884, in New York city.
Brill, Hascal R
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 10, 1846, in Canada. He received his education at Hamlin university, and at the university of Michigan. In 1872 he was elected judge of the probate court of Ramsey county, Minn., to which state he had moved in 1859. In 1875 he was appointed judge of the court of common pleas, and received the re-election for seven years. He was elected judge of the second judicial district in 1882, in 1888, and again in 1894, with headquarters in St. Paul. He is a brilliant lecturer, and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Brimmer, Martin
author, was born in 1829 in Massachusetts. He was a prominent citizen of Boston, and the author of Egypt: Three Essays on the History, Religion and Art of Ancient Egypt. He died in 1896, in Boston, Mass.
Brimson, William George
railroad president. Since 1891 he has been president of the Eastern Chicago and Kenosha; the Joliet and Blue Island; and the Milwaukee and Bay View and Chicago railways.
Brinker, William Hugh
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 23, 1851, in Crawford county, Mo. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Johnson county, Mo., and was twice re-elected, serving three successive terms. In 1885 he was appointed by President Cleveland an associate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico.
Brinkerhoff, Henry R
soldier, legislator, congressman, was born in 1788 in Adams county, Pa. In the last war with England he served in command of a volunteer company, and distinguished himself at the battle of Queenstown. He was twice elected to the New York legislature, and for many years held the office of major-general of the New York militia.
In 1837 he removed to Ohio, and was elected to congress as representative from that state in 1843. He died April 30, 1844, in Huron county, Ohio.
Brinkerhoff, Jacob
congressman, jurist, was born in 1810 in New York. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1843 to 1847. He died July 19, 1880, in Mansfield, Ohio.
Brinkerhoff, Roeliff
soldier, was born June 28, 1828, in Owasco, N. Y.
He served in the civil war; and attained the rank of brigadier-general. In 1891 he was vice-president of the Mansfield Savings bank of Ohio; and is also vice-president of the National Prison congress.
Brinkerhoff, William
soldier, lawyer, state senator, was born July 19, 1843, in Jersey City, N. J. He served in the civil war as private. In 1865 he was elected mayor of New Jersey, and in 1867 was elected counsel for Hudson county. In 1883 he was elected to the New Jersey senate; and in 1884 was appointed corporation counsel of New Jersey.
Brinley, Charles
surveyor, business man, was born Aug. 23, 1847, in Hartford, Conn. In 1864-65 he was attached to the field party of the California state geological survey, and was with the engineers employed by the United States government to survey a wagonroad to Colorado river. Since 1872 he has been superintendent of large steel works near Philadelphia, and of a sugar refinery in that city.
Brinley, Francis
soldier, lawyer, legislator, author, was born Nov. 10, 1800, in Boston, Mass. He was a member of the Boston common council for several years, and its president in 1850 and 1851.
He was a member of the lower house of the legislature in 1832, 1850 and 1854, and in 1852, 1853 and 1863 of the state senate. In 1853 he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention. He has published an Address before the Franklin Debating Society of Boston, and a life of his brother-in-law, William T. Porter, founder of the Spirit of the Times. as
Brinton, Daniel Garrison
educator, journalist, author, was born May 13, 1837, in Chester county, Pa. He is an archæological writer and publisher, well as physician, of Philadelphia, whose researches in aboriginal history and literature have been very extensive. A professor of archæology in the university of Pennsylvania since 1880. He is the author of The Myths of the New World; The Religious Sentiment; American Hero-Myths; Aboriginal American Authors: The Floridian Peninsula; Races and Peoples; Essays of an Americanist; The Lenape and their Legends. He has edited the Maya Chronicles; The Comedy-Ballet of Güeguence; and Aboriginal American Anthology.
Brisbane, Abbott Hall
soldier, military engineer, author, was born in South Carolina. He served in the Florida war against the Seminole Indians in 1835-36 as colonel of South Carolina volunteers. He was the author of a political romance, Ralphton, or the Young Carolinian of 1776. He died Sept. 28, 1861, in Summerville, S. C..
Brisbane, Mrs. Margaret Hunt
poet, was born Feb. 11, 1858, in Vicksburg, Miss. She is a popular poet of the south at Vicksburg, Miss.
Brisbane, William Henry
financier, was born Nov. 23, 1851, in Allentown, Pa. He received his education in the public and Quaker schools of Philadelphia, Pa., and has been principally engaged in mining, real estate and cattle in Leadville, Colo. He has been the state treasurer of Colorado, and has filled numerous positions of honor in the republican party of that state.
Brisbin, James A
soldier, was born May 23, 1837, in Boalsburg, Pa. He served in the civil war, and for his gallantry was made brigadier-general.
Brisbin, James Sanks
soldier, author, was born in 1837, in Boalsburg, Pa. He was a United States cavalry officer; and the author of Campaign Lives of Grant and Colfax; The Beef Bonanza; and Trees and Tree Planting. He died in 1892.
Bristed, Charles Astor
journalist, author, was born Oct. 6, 1820, in New York city. He was a magazinist of New York city; and the author of Five Years in an English University; The Upper Ten Thousand; The Interference Theory of Government; Pieces of a Brokendown Critic; and Anacreontics.
He was a son of John Bristed, the noted clergyman and author. He died Jan. 15, 1874, in Washington, D. C.
Bristed, John
clergyman, author, was born in 1778 in England. He was an episcopal clergyman of Rhode Island. His principal works are Critical and Philosophical Essays; Resources of the United States, 1818; Anglo-American Churches; Edward and Anna: a Novel; and A Pedestrian Tour through the Highlands of Scotland. He died Feb. 23, 1855, in Bristol, R. I.
Brister, Edwin M. P
lawyer, jurist, poet, was born June 26, 1850, in Cadiz, Ohio. He first worked as a printer; subsequently attending the Denison university, from which he graduated in 1887, and was admitted to the bar three years later. He has practiced his profession with success in Newark, Ohio, where he has also filled the office of probate judge. His poems have appeared in the leading newspapers and magazines, and in several standard collections.