Brockenbrough, John – Bromwell, Jacob H
Brockenbrough, John
bishop coadjutor of Virginia, was born Feb. 7, 1839, in Westmoreland county, Va. During the civil war he was first an assistant and then a full surgeon in the Confederate states army, and served throughout the war. When peace was restored, he practiced medicine for a time in Westmoreland county. He was elected bishopcoadjutor in 1894, and consecrated the same year.
Brockenbrough, Lawrence Rush
railroad manager, was born Nov. 18, 1853, in Louisville, Ky. He has been connected with the management of several railroads; and since 1895 has been general passenger agent of the Ohio Southern railroad at Springfield, Ohio.
Brockenbrough, William H
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born in 1813. He went to Florida, and under the territorial government he was a senator from the western district and at one time president of the senate. He was United States district attorney, and also judge; and was a representative in congress from Florida from 1845 to 1847. He was also a presidential elector on several occasions. He died June, 1850, in Tallahassee, Fla.
BROCKETT, HATTIE FOSTER FOSTER NOURSE, philanthropist, was born Feb. 22, 1866, in Charleston, W. Va. She is prominently connected with various societies; and is the vice-president of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Brockett, Linus Pierpont
physician, author, was born Oct. 16, 1820, in Canton, Conn. He was a prolific writer of Hartford, among whose many productions are History of Education; Our Great Captains; The Year of Battles: a History of the Franco-German War of 1870; Epidemics and Contagious Diseases; The Silk Industry in America; Our Western Empire, an account of the resources of the United States west of the Mississippi; and The Great Metropolis. He died in 1893.
Brocklesby, John
educator, author, was born Oct. 8, 1811, in England. He was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Trinity college, Hartford, from 1842 to 1873, and professor of natural philosophy and astronomy from 1873 till 1882. He was acting president of the college in 1860, 1864, 1866, 1867 and 1874. His works include Elements of Meteorology; Views of the Microscopic World; Elements of Astronomy; and Elements of Physical Geography.
Brockway, John Hall
educator, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born in 1801 in Ellington, Conn. He frequently served in the state legislature; and was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1839 to 1843. He died July 29, 1870, in Ellington.
Broderick, Case
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 23, 1839, in Grant county, Ind. He enlisted at Fort Scott, Kas., as a private soldier in the second Kansas battery, in 1862, and was mustered out at Leavenworth in August, 1865. He was elected probate judge of Jackson county in 1868, and was twice re-elected; studied law and was admitted to the bar at Holton in 1870; and was elected county attorney of Jackson county in 1876 and re-elected in 1878. He was elected state senator in 1880 to represent Jackson and Pottawatomie counties and in 1884 was appointed by President Arthur associate justice of the supreme court of Idaho for the term of four years.
He removed at once to Boise City, Idaho, assumed the duties of the position, and served until the fall of 1888, when he returned to Holton and resumed the practice of law. He is largely interested in farming and stock raising and was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Broderick, David Colbreth
United States senator, was born Dec. 4, 1820, in Washington, D. C. He removed to California in 1849, and engaged in the business of smelting and assaying gold.
He was a member of the convention which drafted the constitution of that state; served two years in the California senate, and was president of that body in 1851. He was elected a senator in congress from California in 1856, for the long term, taking his seat during the second session of the thirty-fourth congress. He died Sept. 16, 1859, near Lake Merced, Cal.
Brodhead, Daniel
soldier, was born in 1736 in Virginia. He raised in 1775 a company of riflemen who served in the battle of Long Island. He was appointed colonel of the eighth Pennsylvania regiment, and in April, 1778, led a successful expedition against the Muskingum Indians. He made two important treaties with the Indians, one of them July 22, 1779, with the Cherokees, and received the thanks of congress for his success. He was for many years surveyorgeneral of Pennsylvania. He died Nov. 15, 1809, in Milford, Pa.
Brodhead, Mrs. Eva Wilder
author. She is a popular novelist; and the author of One of the Visconti; Diana's Livery; An Earthly Paragon; Ministers of Grace; and Bound in Shallows.
Brodhead, John
clergyman, congressman, was born in 1770. He was a minister of the methodist episcopal church for forty-four years; and was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1829 to 1833. He died April 7, 1838, in New Market, N. H.
Brodhead, John Romeyn
author, was born Jan. 2, 1814, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He was a painstaking, accurate writer, whose work, if somewhat lacking in picturesqueness, is of lasting value. He was the author of History of the State of New York; and The Government of Sir Edmund Andros over New England. His work consists of eighty volumes of information of the colonial history of New York. He died May 6, 1873, in New York city.
Brodhead, Richard
congressman, United States senator, was born in 1811 in Pike county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from 1843 to 1849; and a senator of the United States senate from Pennsylvania from 1851 to 1857. He died Sept. 16, 1863, in Easton, Pa.
Brodhead, Thornton F
soldier, lawyer, public official, was born in 1822 in New Hampshire. He served through the Mexican war as an officer in the fifteenth infantry, and was twice brevetted for bravery. Resuming the practice of his profession after the war, he was elected to the state senate, and in 1852 appointed postmaster of Detroit. At the beginning of the civil war he raised the first Michigan cavalry regiment, at the head of which he served under Gens. Banks, Fremont and Pope. He died Aug. 31, 1862, in Alexandria, Va., of wounds received at the second battle of Bull Run.
Brogden, Curtis H
legislator, congressman, governor. He early took an interest in military affairs and became a general of militia. He was elected to the state legislature in 1838, and in one or the other of the two houses served therein for nearly twenty years. He was for ten years, from 1857, comptroller of the state.
He was a presidential elector from 1868; and in 1869 was appointed a collector of internal revenue. After the additional service of four years in the state senate in 1872, he was elected lieutenant-governor; and on the death of Governor Caldwell, in 1874, became the governor of the state.
He was also a justice of Wayne county; and was elected a representative from North Carolina to the forty-fifth congress.
Brokaw, Isaac Vail
merchant, was born Nov. 27, 1835, in New Brunswick, N. J. He formed a partnership and began a clothing business under the firm name of Dunham and Brokaw. This business was most successfully carried on from 1856 to 1861, when Mr. Dunham retired, and Mr. Brokaw continued the business under his own name. In 1866 he admitted to partnership his brother, William Vail Brokaw, thereafter adopting the name of Brokaw Brothers, of New York city.
Bromberg, Frederick George
educator, congressman, was born June 19, 1837, in New York city. He was appointed treasurer of the city of Mobile in 1867, and served until 1869. He was a member of the state senate of Alabama from 1868 to 1872; and was appointed postmaster of Mobile in 1869, and removed in 1871. He was elected to the forty-third and fortyfcurth congresses.
Bromfield, John
merchant, philanthropist, was born April 11, 1779, in Newburyport, Mass. In 1845 he gave to the Boston Athenæum $25,000, and at his death he left munificent bequests to several charitable institutions. He died Dec. 8, 1849, in Boston, Mass.
Bromley, Isaac Hill
journalist, legislator, author, was born March 6, 1833, in Norwich, Conn. In 1858 he began the publication of the Norwich Morning Bulletin. He served as captain in 1862, and afterward was provost-marshal. In 1866 he was a member of the legislature. In 1868-72 he was editor and part proprietor of the Hartford Evening Post; in 1872 a writer on the editorial staff of the New York Sun; and editorial writer on the New York Tribune from 1873 till 1883. He died Aug. 11, 1898.
Bromwell, Henry P. H
journalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 29, 1823, in Baltimore, Md. From 1852 to 1854 he was the publisher and editor of the Age of Steam and Fire, at Vandalia. In 1853 he was elected judge of Fayette county for four years; and was a presidential elector in 1860. In 1864 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-ninth congress; and was reelected to the fortieth congress as a republican.
Bromwell, Jacob H
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born May 11, 1847, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He taught in the Cincinnati high schools for seventeen years. He was assistant county solicitor of Hamilton county for four years; was elected to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses.