Bristol, Mrs. Augusta Cooper – Brockenborough, William
Bristol, Mrs. Augusta Cooper
educator, lecturer, poet, was born April 17, 1835, in Croydon, N. H. She attended the Canaan Union academy and the Kimball Union academy, and then began educational work. In 1869 she published a volume of poems and has since contributed extensively, both prose and verse, to current literature.
For several years she was president of the Ladies' Social Science class in Vineland, N. J.; in 1880 she gave a course of lectures before the New York Positivist society on The Evolution of Character, and has since become well known throughout America as a lecturer of great ability. Her works are: Poems; The Relation of the Maternal Function to the Woman's Intellect; The Philosophy of Art; Science and its Relations to Character; The Present Phase of Woman's Advancement; and The Web of Life, a collection of verse.
Bristol, John Bunyan
landscape painter, was born March 14, 1826, in Hillsdale, N. Y. At the beginning of his career he painted figures and portraits, but afterward turned his attention exclusively to landscapes. His studies were from nature. Among his works are Autumn Afternoon, Bolton, Lake George; Sunrise, Mount Mansfield; Adirondacks, from Lake Champlain; and On the St.
John's River, Florida.
Bristol, Warren
lawyer, jurist, legislator, state senator, was born March 19, 1823, in Stafford, N. Y. He held successively the offices of district attorney and judge of probate, in Red Wing county, Minn.; and was president of the first republican state convention of Minnesota, in 1855, which was held at St. Paul, and at which the republican party was first organized in that state. He was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1864; was a representative in the state legislature in 1865; and was a state senator from 1866 to 1870. In 1872 he was appointed, by President Grant, associate justice of the supreme court of New Mexico, and was re-appointed by President Grant in 1876 and by President Hayes in 1880.
Bristol, William
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1779 in Hamden, Conn. He was judge of the United States district court for the state of Connecticut; and was a member of the superior court of that state from 1819 to 1826. He died March 7, 1836, in New Haven.
Bristol, William Hoag
lawyer, poet, was born March 18, 1828, in Ransomville, N. Y. He has edited and published various papers in Kankakee, Janesville, and Galena, Ill. In 1863-64 he wrote and published a valuable and interesting history of Kankakee county, and later compiled other historical works.
Bristow, Benjamin H
soldier, lawyer, public official, was born June 20, 1832, in Elkton, Ky. In 1861 he entered the army as lieutenant-colonel of the twentyfifth Kentucky infantry; and subsequently commanded the eighth Kentucky cavalry. While serving in the field he was elected to the state senate for four years; 1866 he was appointed United States district attorney for the district of Kentucky, and in 1870 was appointed solicitor-general of the United States. He was appointed secretary of the treasury in 1874.
Bristow, Francis M
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 11, 1804, in Nicholasville, Ky. In 1831 and 1833 he was elected to the Kentucky legislature; in 1846 to the state senate; and in 1849 was a member of the state constitutional convention. In 1854 he was elected a representative in congress to fill a vacancy; and in 1859 was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirtysixth congress. He died June 10, 1864, in Elkton, Ky.
Bristow, Frank L
musician, composer, was born April 25, 1844, in Jacksonville, Ill. He has been secretary of the State Teachers' association and president of the same; has taught instrumental and vocal music in most of the southern states, and has resided in Covington for twenty years. He is the author of several collections of singing books for classes, and two cantatas for ladies' voices, Rainbow and Pleiades, as well as other compositions for chorus.
Bristow, George F
musician, composer, was born Dec. 19, 1825, in New York. He is an organist and violinist, and the composer of the opera Rip Van Winkle.
Bristow, James Tazewell
soldier, business man, was born June 1, 1837, in Bennettsville, S. C. During the war he served as a soldier, and rose to the grade of colonel. After the war he went into business in Timmonsville, S. C.; and in 1876 he was appointed auditor of Darlington county, which position he filled for several terms. In 1885 he was elected secretary of the Darlington Manufacturing company, one of the largest cotton mills in the south, which position he held until his death, on April 21, 1892.
Bristow, Louis Johnson
journalist, was born Jan. 19, 1876, in Florence, S. C. For several years he edited the Georgia Reporter, and is now the editor and owner of the County Record of Kingstree, S. C.
Brittan, Nathan
educator, lawyer, inventor, was born Sept. 2, 1808, in Spencer, Mass. In 1851 his attention was directed to the inadequacy of the lightningrods in use in that part of the country, and he immediately devoted himself to the study of the laws of atmospheric electricity, and invented a new conductor, known as the continuous copper-strip, which was patented and received with general favor. He died Jan. 3, 1872, in Adrian, Mich.
Britton, Alexander T
soldier, capitalist, lawyer, was born Dec. 29, 1835, in New York city. In 1861 he enlisted in the old national rifles of Washington, D. C. In 1865 he organized the law firm of Britton and Gray, and in 1877 was appointed by President Hayes one of the commission to codify the public land laws. He is director in several large charitable institutions, street railroads and banks.
Britts, Mrs. Mattie Dyer
author, poet, was born in 1842 in New York city.
She is the author of sixteen books for young people, two novels, and a number of poems and hymns. The most notable of her prose works are Edward Lee, and Nobody's Boy.
Broaddus, Andrew
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 4, 1770, in Carolina county, Va. He was a baptist clergyman once noted as a pulpit orator. He was the author of History of the Bible; Form of Church Discipline; and Letters and Sermons. He died Dec. 1, 1848, in Virginia.
Broadhead, Garland Carr
geologist, author, was born Oct. 30, 1827, in Charlottesville, Va. In 1875 he was employed by the Smithsonian institution to make collections in Missouri for the centennial exhibition, and in 1884 collected objects for the New Orleans exhibition.
The results of his geological investigations in Missouri are published in Missouri Geological Reports, and Missouri Geological Survey. a
Broadhead, James O
lawyer, legislator, state senator, congressman, was born May 29, 1819, in Charlottesville, Va. He was a member of the state house of representatives of Missouri in 1847; state senator from 1850 to 1854; a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1861; and United States district attorney for the eastern district of Missouri in that year.
He was provost-marshal-general of the department of the Missouri in 1863; member of the state constitutional convention in 1875; and was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
Broadhead, John C
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1831 to 1833, and again from 1837 to 1839.
Broadus, John Albert
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 24, 1827, in Virginia.
He was a baptist clergyman, and president of the Southern Baptist Theological seminary. He was the author of Preparation and Delivery of Sermons; Lectures on Preaching; Sermons and Addresses; and Jesus of Nazareth. He died in 1895.
Broadwater, Charles Arthur
banker, railroad president, was born Sept. 25, 1840, in St. Charles, Mo. In 1882 he founded the Montana National bank, of which he was president. The Montana Central railroad, of which he was the president, was built by him, and he was president of banks in Great Falls, Livingston and Neihart, and otherwise active in affairs. He died May 24, 1892.
Broadway, Augustine W
educator, clergyman, was born Nov. 16, 1854, in England. He is a graduate of Syracuse university, and has received the degrees of A. B., A. M. and Ph. D. He taught school for three years, and in 1886 became pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church of Palmyra, N. Y. For six years he filled a pastorate in Syracuse, N. Y., and now fills a pastorate in Geneva.
Brochus, Perry E
jurist, was born in Virginia. He was an early emigrant to Utah, and in 1850 was appointed a United States judge for that territory.
Brock, Eugene
legislator, was born May 6, 1853, in Newbury, Vt. He went to California in 1874, and the following year to Washington. He has been active in the development of that state, and for four years was a member of the Washington legislature.
Brock, Sidney G
lawyer, was born April 10, 1837, in Cleveland, Ohio. He was mayor of Macon three times, prosecuting attorney of his county; chief of bureau of statistics, Washington, D. C.; and well known as a writer for various journals.
Brockenborough, William
jurist, legislator, was born July 10, 1778. He represented Essex county in the legislature, and was subsequently a councilor. He became judge of the general court in 1809, and retained that office until 1834, when he was appointed one of the judges of the court of appeals, an office that he retained until his death. He died Dec. 10, 1838, in Richmond, Va.