Brooks, Thomas Benton – Broun, Thomas L
Brooks, Thomas Benton
engineer, author, was born June 15, 1836, in Monroe, N. Y. During the civil war he was captain in the first New York volunteer engineers, afterward becoming major and aide on the general staff of the army.
At the time of his resignation he held the brevet rank of colonel. From 1869 to 1879 he was assistant geologist in charge of the surveys of the Lake Superior iron regions. In this connection he was associated with Raphael Pumpelly, and prepared Geological Survey of Michigan; and Geology of Wisconsin.
Brooks, William Grant
educator, composer, poet, was born Feb. 26, 1869, in Saco, Maine. He is the author of a number of songs that have become popular throughout the United States; and many of his poems have been incorporated into several standard works. He is a good musician, and for many years was organist in the Universalist church of Biddeford, Maine.
He is one of the most prominent members of the Maine grand lodge of Good Templars; Knights of Pythias, and other fraternal bodies.
Brooks, William Keith
naturalist, author, was born March 25, 1848, in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a professor of morphology at Johns Hopkins university; and the author of Hand-Book of Invertebrate Zoölogy; Development of the American Oyster; Conifer, a Study in Morphology; Development of Lingula; and The Law of Heredity.
Brooks, William Myron
college president, legislator, was born March 5, 1835, in La Porte, Ohio. He is a graduate from Oberlin college, and became president of Tabor college in 1866. He was the presidential elector in 1876, and the same year was elected a member of the Iowa legislature. In 1868 he was made president of the State Teachers' association of Iowa. Since 1891 he has been president of the Tabor and Northern railway.
Brooks, William Robert
astronomer, lecturer, was born June 11, 1844, in England. He invented various improvements in astronomical, photographic, and other scientific instruments. In 1870 he settled in Phelps, N. Y., where in 1874 he founded and became the director of the Red House observatory. 1888 he removed to Geneva, N. Y., to take charge of Smith observatory. His work has consisted largely in the discovery of comets, and thirteen of these bodies have been credited to him since 1881. Six medals have been conferred upon him. In
Brookshire, Elijah Voorhees
farmer, congressman, was born Aug. 15, 1856, in Ladoga, Ind. He was engaged in the practice of the law and farming when elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses; and was re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat. was
Broom, Jacob
congressman, born July 25, 1808, in Baltimore, Md. In 1840 he was deputy auditor of Pennsylvania; and was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-fourth congress. He died in November, 1864, in Washington, D. C.
Broom, James M
congressman, was born in 1778, in Delaware. He was graduated at Princeton in 1794; and was a member of congress from Delaware from 1805 to 1807.
Broomall, John M
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 19, 1816, in Upper Chichester, Pa. He served in the legislature of the state; was a presidential elector in 1861; and in 1862 was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-eighth congress; was re-elected to the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses.
Broome, James E
governor, was born March 3, in Florida. He was governor of Florida from 1853 to 1857.
Broome, James M
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Delaware from 1805 to 1807. 1804.
Broome, John
merchant, was born in 1.738. He was a member of the New York state constitutional convention of 1777 and lieutenant-governor of the state in During the whole of his public career he was prominent in New York, and was for many years at the head of some of the most important charitable and commercial institutions of the city.
An important thoroughfare bears his name. He died Aug. 8, 1810.
Broome, John L
soldier, was born March 8, 1824, in New York city. During the war with Mexico he served with his corps. In 1862 he commanded the marine guard of the Hartford, Farragut's flagship, and was present at the passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip (April 24); and in the various engagements at Vicksburg and Port Hudson, which resulted in wresting the Mississippi river from the confederate forces. He was twice wounded during the war, and at its close received the brevets of major and lieutenant-colonel for gallant and meritorious services.
Broome, Lewis Henry
architect, was born June 28, 1849, in Philadelphia, Pa. He served in the civil war; and attained the rank of major. He has designed and erected many of the finest buildings in New Jersey and New York.
BRO N, WILLIAM G., educator, manufacturer, state senator, was born Oct. 31, 1861, in Marion, Ohio. After graduating from the Ohio Normal university he entered educational work, and for three years was superintendent of public schools at Cridersville. Since 1866 he has been a merchant and manufacturer of Buckland, Ohio, and in 1891 was elected its first mayor. He has served as a member of the seventy-first and seventysecond general assemblies of Ohio; and in 1897 was elected to the state senate.
Brorup, Rasmus Peterson
author, poet, was born in 1851. He is the author of Christianity and Our Times; Truth and Poetry; and other works.
For many years he has been engaged in the publishing business, with headquarters in Chicago, Ill.
Brosius, Marriott
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 7, 1843, in Lancaster county, Pa. He enlisted as a private in company K, ninety-seventh regiment Pennsylvania volunteers for three years; and was commissioned a second lieutenant for bravery on the field of battle. He was elected to the fiftyfirst, fifty-second, fifty-third, fiftyfourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. In 1893 he received the honorary degree of LL. D. from Ursinus college.
Bross, William
journalist, author, was born Nov. 4, 1813, in Montague, N. J.
He was a Chicago journalist; and the author of History of Chicago (1866); Tom Quick, a romance of Indian warfare; and Chicago and Her Future Growth. He died in 1890.
Brotherton, Mrs. Alice Wil- Liams
poet, was born in Cambridge, Ind.
She is a magazine writer of Cincinnati, whose work is mainly in poetry; and she is the author of Beyond the Veil; The Sailing of King Olaf; and What the Wind Told the Tree-Tops, prose and verse for children. In 1876 she married William Ernest Brotherton of Cincinnati, Ohio, which city has since been her home.
Many of her poems have been set to music in America and in England.
Brough, Charles Henry
soldier, legislator, jurist, was born Nov. 17, 1813, in Marietta, Ohio. He was a member of the Ohio legislature in 1840-41; commanded the fourth Ohio regiment during the war with Mexico; and was presiding judge of the Hamilton county court of common pleas at the time of his death. He died May 10, 1849, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Brough, John
journalist, governor, was born Sept. 17, 1811, in Marietta, Ohio.
In 1831 he published at Marietta the Washington County Republican, and in 1833 the Lancaster Eagle. He was a member of the legislature; from 1839 to 1845 auditor; and in 1846 opened a law office in Cincinnati and published the Inquirer.
In 1848 he was president of the Madison and Indianapolis railway; and in 1853, of the Bellefontaine and Indianapolis road. In 1863 he was elected governor of Ohio. He died Aug. 29, 1865, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Brougham, John
author, was born May 9, 1810, in Ireland. He was a noted dramatist, and the author of over a hundred comedies and farces, many of which, like Vanity Fair and The Irish Emigrant, have been very successful. He died June 7, 1880, in New York.
Broughton, E. P
railroad manager, was born in England. For a number of years he was a railroad telegraph operator; and since 1879 has been connected with the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad, of which he is now general superintendent.
Broughton, Thomas
lawyer, statesman. He was councilor and collector of customs in South Carolina in 1808; afterward lieutenant-governor; and in 1855 was made governor, serving in that position until his death. He died in 1858.
Broun, Thomas L
soldier, lawyer, was born in Loudoun county, Va. In 1848 he graduated from the university of Virginia; taught school two years; and was admitted to the bar in 1852. He entered the confederate service as a private in the Kanawha riflemen; was promoted to major in the third Virginia regiment of Wise Legion; and severely wounded at the battle of Cloyd's Mountain. After the war Major Broun was reinstated in his old position as president of the Navigation company of Charleston. During 1866-70 he practiced law in New York city, when he returned again to Charleston. He has made a specialty of West Virginia law and land titles; and has devoted his energies to the development of the Coal river region, in which he has a large personal interest.