Brondel, John B – Brooks, Elbridge Streeter
Brondel, John B
Roman catholic bishop, was born in 1842, in Belgium. He was consecrated bishop of Vancouver island in 1879, appointed administrator of the vicariate apostolic of Montana in 1883, and in 1884 consecrated bishop of Helena in the same territory.
Bronson, David
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman. He was a member of the legislature as representative in 1832 and 1834, and as senator in 1846. He was a representative in congress from Norridgewock, Maine, from 1841 to 1843. From 1854 to 1857 he was judge of probate for Sagadahock county. He died in November, 1863, in Talbot county, Md.
Bronson, Greene Carrier
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1789, in Oneida, N. Y. In 1819 he was chosen surrogate of Oneida county; in 1822 was a member of the assembly, and in 1829 elected attorneygeneral, which office he held up to 1836, at which time he became one of the puisne judges of the supreme court of judicature.
He was next appointed chief justice of the supreme court in 1845, and two years subsequently one of the judges of the court of appeals, then just organized. He died Sept. 3, 1863, in Saratoga, N. Y.
Bronson, Isaac H
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1802, in Rutland, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1837 to 1839. In 1839 he was appointed one of the territorial judges of Florida, and from that time until his death served continually on the bench, at the time of his death being district judge of the United States for northern Florida. He died Aug. 13, 1855, in Palatka, Fla.
Bronson, Sherlock A
college president, was born April 21, 1807, in Waterbury, Conn. He was appointed president of Kenyon college in 1845, and held that office until 1850. In 1870 he began to supply the pulpit of Grace church of Mansfield, of which he became rector in 1872; continuing in active pastoral work until 1889. He died May 17, 1890, in Mansfield, Ohio.
Bronson, Silas
philanthropist, was born in Middleborough, Conn. He acquired a fortune, and among other bequests, left $200,000 to found a public library in Waterbury, Conn. He died Nov. 25, 1867, in New York.
Brooke, a. L
farmer, horticulturist, state legislator, was born Nov. 29, 1847, near Lancaster, Ohio. For fifteen years he taught school in his native state; and in 1886 became a farmer and nurseryman in North Topeka, Kan. He has served as president of the American Association of Nurserymen; and in 1897 was elected a member of the Kansas state legislature.
Brooke, Francis J
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 27, 1763, in Smithfield, Va. In 1780 he joined Harrison's regiment of artillery as lieutenant, and afterward joined Greene's army, and served until the end of the war. He was elected to the state house of delegates in 1794, removed to Fredericksburg in 1796, and in 1800 was chosen to the state senate, becoming its speaker. In 1804 he was elected a judge of the general court, and in 1811 a judge of the court of appeals, of which he was president for eight years.
In 1831 he was re-elected judge of the same court, and retained the office until his death. He died March 3, 1851.
Brooke, Francis Key
bishop of Oklahoma, I. T., was born Nov. 2, 1852, in Gambier, Ohio. He served successively at College Hill, Portsmouth, Piqua, and Sandusky, Ohio. He was rector of St. Peter's church of St. Louis from 1886 to 1888; and at Atchison, Kan., from 1888 to 1892.
Brooke, Francis Mark
soldier, merchant, lawyer, was born July 4, 1836, in Radnor, Pa. He served in the civil war as a private; in 1863 was elected district attorney of Delaware county, Pa.; and in 1864 he formed the co-partnership of F. M. and H. Brooke, grain merchants of Valley Forge, Pa.
Brooke, George Mercer
soldier, was born in Virginia. His first brevet, that of lieutenant-colonel, 1814, was for gallant conduct in the defense of Fort Erie; his second, that of colonel, 1814, was for distinguished services in the sortie from Fort Erie. He was made a brevet brigadier-general in 1824, and was brevetted major-general in 1848. He died March 9, 1851, in San Antonio, Texas.
Brooke, John R
soldier, was born in Pennsylvania. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1864, and also brevetted major-general of volunteers. In the regular army he received brevets as colonel and brigadier-general for gallantry in several battles. During the war with Spain he was commissioned majorgeneral.
Brooke, Robert
statesman. He was governor of Virginia from 1794 to 1796.
Brooke, Walker
United States senator, was born Dec. 13, 1813, in Virginia. He was a senator in congress from Mississippi from 1852 to 1853, in place of H. S. Foote, resigned. He took part in the rebellion. He died Feb. 19, 1869, in Vicksburg, Miss.
Brookes, James Hall
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 27, 1830, in Pulaski, Tenn. He has filled pastorates in the presbyterian churches of Dayton, Ohio; and St. Louis, Mo. He is the author of How to be Saved; May Christians Dance; Is the Bible True: The Way Made Plain; and many other works.
Brookes, Walter W
railroad president, was born March 28, 1858, in Barnwell county, .S. C. Since 1891 he has been president of the Rome railroad at Rome, Ga.
Brookfield, William
manufacturer, was born May 24, 1844, in Greenback, N. J. In 1864 he, with his father, established the Bushwick Glass works, which is one of the largest in America.
Brookings, Robert Somers
merchant, was born Jan. 22, 1850, in Cecil, Md.
He originated and developed the system of stores and warehouses known as Cupples Station, which stands unique as the only thing of the kind in the world. He is vice-president of both the Union Trust Co. and the St. Louis Savings Bank and Safe Deposit Co.; and president of Washington university.
Brookings, W. W
jurist, was an early emigrant to Utah. He was appointed an associate judge of the United States court for that territory.
Brooks, Arthur
clergyman, author, was born in 1845, in Massachusetts. He was an episcopal clergyman of New York city; and the author of -. A volume of his sermons was reprinted in London with the title, Christ for To-Day. He died in 1895.
Brooks, Byron Alden
inventor, author, was born Dec. 12, 1845, in Theresa, N. Y. He has invented four different kinds of typewriters and has also made many important inventions in printing mechanics. He is the author of King Saul; Those Children and Their Teachers; Phil Vernon and his Schoolmaster; and Earth Revisited.
Brooks, Charles
educator, author, was born Oct. 30, 1795, in Medford, Mass.
He was a prominent Massachusetts educator; and the author of History of Medford; The Christian in his Closet; Daily Monitor; Family Prayer-Book; Elements of Ornithology; Introduction to Ornithology; and ten volumes of biography, He died July 7, 1872.
Brooks, Caroline Shawk
sculptor, was born April 28, 1840, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1877 she secured a patent for improvements in the methods of producing lubricated moulds in plaster. In 1878 she executed in butter at Washington a life-size statue of the Dreaming Iolanthe, which was successfully transported to Paris and exhibited at the world's fair of 1878. She subsequently opened a studio in New York, and executed portrait marbles of Emanuel Swedenborg, James A. Garfield, Thurlow Weed, George Eliot, and Thomas Carlyle.
Brooks, Charles Timothy
clergyman, author, was born June 20, 1813, in Salem, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Newport, R. I., in 1837-73.
His other work includes Songs of Field and Flood; The Simplicity of Christ; William Ellery Channing: a Centennial Memory; and Poems Original and Translated. He died June 14, 1883, in Newport, R. I.
Brooks, Chauncey
merchant, was born Jan. 12, 1794, in Burlington, Conn.
In 1856 he was made president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Salt works in the Kanawha region and other forms of enterprise were promoted by him. He died May 18, 1880.
Brooks, David
soldier, jurist, congressman, was born in 1756. He entered the army in 1776 as a lieutenant in the Pennsylvania line; was captured at Fort Washington, and remained a prisoner for two years. He was a representative in congress from New York in 1797. He was subsequently first judge of Dutchess county for sixteen years. He died Aug. 30, 1838, in Dutchess county, N. Y.
Brooks, Edward
educator, author, was born Jan. 16, 1831, in Stony Point, N. Y. He was the principal of the Millersville Normal school in Pennsylvania from 1866 to 1886, and since then superintendent of the Philadelphia public schools. His writings are mainly, though not entirely, mathematical, and among them are The Normal Written Arithmetic; Philosophy of Arithmetic; Mental Science and Methods of Culture; The Story of the Iliad; and The Story of the Odyssey.
Brooks, Elbridge Gerry
clergyman, author, was born in 1816, in New Hampshire. He was a universalist clergyman of Philadelphia; and the author of Universalism a Practical Power; Our New Departure; and Universalism in Life and Doctrine. He died in 1878.
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter
author, was born April 14, 1846, in Lowell, Mass. He has been editor of the Brooklyn Daily Times, St. Nicholas Magazine, and Wide Awake. He is the author of Life Work of Elbridge Gerry Brooks; In No Man's Land; Historic Boys; In Leisler's Times; Chivalric Days; Storied Holidays; Historic Girls; Story of the American Indian; The Story of New York; Story of the American Sailor; Story of the United States; The True Story of Columbus; Heroic Happenings; A Son of Issachar; The True Story of George Washington; The Century Book for Young Americans; A Boy of the First Empire; Great Men's Sons; The Story of Miriam of Magdala; The True Story of Abraham Lincoln; The Story of the American Soldier; The Century Book of Famous Americans; Under the Tamaracks; and The Long Walls.