Browne, William Hand – Bruback, Theodore
Browne, William Hand
author, was born Dec. 31, 1828, in Baltimore, Md.
He is an historical writer of Baltimore who, besides assisting Scharf and other writers, has also written Maryland, the History of a Palatinate; and George Calvert and Cecilius Calvert, Barons Baltimore.
Browne, William Hardcastle
lawyer, author, was born in 1840 in Pennsylvania. He is a lawyer of Philadelphia; and the author of Digest of the Law of Divorce and Alimony in the United States; Famous Women of History; and Bible Heroes.
Brownell, Chauncey W
lawyer, statesman, was born Oct. 7, 1847, in Williston, Vt. He is a successful lawyer of Burlington, Vt.; and since 1890 has been secretary of state.
Brownell, Henry Howard
soldier, author, poet, was born Feb. 6, 1820, in Providence, R. I. He served in the civil war as ensign under Farragut, and was present in the two engagements described in his famous battle poems, The Bay Fight, and The River Fight, which rank among the finest verses of their kind. He was the author of Poems; People's Book of Ancient and Modern History; Discoverers of North and South America; Lyrics of a Day; and War Lyrics. He died Oct. 31, 1872, in East Hartford, Conn.
Brownell, Seymour
soldier, business man, state senator, was born Feb. 27, 1837, in Farmington, Mich. During 1858- 61 he was postmaster of Utica, Mich.; raised company H, second Michigan cavalry; served on the staffs of several generals; and was brevetted colonel for meritorious services. He was the promoter and one of the directors of the Detroit and Bay City railroad, and in 1872 built the first thirty miles of that road.
In 1872 he was a member of the Michigan state senate; and was a delegate to the democratic national convention of 1868.
In 1884 he engaged in iron mining, with headquarters in Detroit. He was the promoter of the Grand River Electric railway, of which he is managing director and one of the principal owners.
Brownell, Thomas Church
bishop, author, was born Oct. 19, 1779, in Westport, Mass. He was the third protestant episcopal bishop of Connecticut; and the author of Family Prayer Book; Commentary on the Prayer Book; Youthful Christian's Guide; Consolation for the Afflicted; Christian's Walk and Consolation; and Religion of Heart and Life. Many other religious works also appeared from his pen. He died Jan. 13, 1865, in Hartford, Conn.
Brownell, Walter A
educator, was born March 23, 1838, in Evans Mills, N. Y. In 1881 he was professor of mineralogy in the vacation summer school for teachers at Martha's Vineyard, Mass. He has held professorships in the Syracuse high school; Red Creek seminary; Fulton seminary, and many other prominent colleges.
Brownell, William Crary
journalist, author, was born in 1851 in New York. He is a New York journalist and critic; and the author of Newport; French Art; Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture; and French Traits: essay in Comparative Criticism. an
Browning, J. Hull
railroad president, was born Dec. 25, 1841, in Orange, N. J. Since 1887 he has been president of the Northern railroad of New Jersey.
Browning, Orville Hickman
lawyer, statesman, was born in 1810 in Harrison county, Ky. He served through the Black Hawk war in 1832; in 1836 was elected a senator in the Illinois legislature; and in 1861 was appointed a senator in congress to fill the vacancy. He died Aug. 10, 1881, in Quincy, Ill.
Brownlee, William Craig
clergyman, author, was born in 1784 in Scotland. In 1826 he was installed as one of the ministers of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch church in New York. He edited the Dutch Church Magazine through four consecutive volumes, and published Inquiry into the Principles of the Quakers; The Roman Catholic Controversy; Treatise on Popery; Lights and Shadows of Christian Life; The Christian Youths' Book; Christian Father at Home; Deity of Christ; History of the Western Apostolic Church; The Converted Murderer; and The Whigs of Scotland, a romance, besides several pamphlets. He died Feb. 10, 1860, in New York city.
Brownlee, William R
journalist, state senator, was born Oct. 14, 1846, in Coitsville, Ohio. In 1880 he was nominated and elected state senator to the Indiana legislature.
Brownlow, Walter Preston
journalist, congressman, was born March 27, 1851, in Abingdon, Va. In 1876 he purchased the Herald and Tribune, a republican newspaper, published at Jonesboro, of which he has been the editor and proprietor since.
In 1882 he was elected a member of the republican state committee and served as a member of said committee for eight years, two of which he was its chairman. He was appointed postmaster at Jonesboro in 1881. He was a delegate from the state at large to the republican national convention of 1884, and favored the nomination of James G. Blaine; and was unanimously selected at that time by the delegation from his state as Tennessee's member of the national committee. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a protectionist republican.
Brownlow, William Gannaway
clergyman, journalist, governor, author, was born Aug. 29, 1805, in Wythe county, Va. He was a methodist preacher and journalist of Knoxville, Tenn.; conspicuous for his fidelity to the union during the civil war; and known as Parson Brownlow. At the close of the war he served two terms as governor of his state. He was the author of The Iron Wheel Examined and Its False Spokes Extracted, a reply to attacks upon methodism; Ought American Slavery to Be Perpetuated; and Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession. He died April 29, 1877, in Knoxville, Tenn.
Brownscombe, Jennie
artist, was born Dec. 10, 1850, near Honesdale, Pa.
She has devoted her studies mainly to genre figure painting, and has made a large number of portraits. Her most widely known pictures are Grandmother's Treasures; Blossom Time: The Gleaners; and Sunday Morning in Sleepy Hollow. She has exhibited pictures in the Academy of Design in New York city; and her pictures have been reproduced in etchings and engravings.
Brownson, Henry F
soldier, lawyer, author, was born Aug. 7, 1835, in Canton, Mass. He was educated at the college of the Holy Cross, and the university of Munich. He served as lieutenant, captain and major in the United States army for ten years. He is a successful lawyer of Detroit, Mich.; and the author of several works.
Brownson, James I
clergyman, author, was born March 14, 1817, in Mercersburg, Pa. He has been pastor of the presbyterian church at Washington, Pa., since 1849; and since 1852 has been connected with the Washington college as trustee and president of board of trustees. He has published Memorials of the Rev. Dr.
David Elliott and the Rev. Dr. Charles C.
Beatty, and various historical addresses and sketches.
Brownson, Nathan
physician, statesman. He was a member of the provincial congress in 1775; was for some time a surgeon in the army; and speaker of the legislature of 1781, by which body he was chosen governor of Georgia. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1776 to 1778; speaker of the Georgia house of representatives in 1788; president of the senate from 1789 to 1791; and in 1789 was a member of the convention that framed the state constitution. He died Nov. 6, 1796, in Liberty county, Ga. a a
Brownson, Orestes Augustus
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 16, 1803, in Stockbridge, Vt. He was a prominent philosophical thinker who in early life was successively presbyterian, universalist clergyman, socialist leader associated with Robert Owen, and a unitarian clergyman, as well as an able political speaker at all times. In 1844 he became Roman Catholic, and a a in Brownson's Review, from that date until 1864, he ably defended the Roman Catholic faith from the standpoint of a liberal. His philosophy is more or less influenced by the thought of Cousin. He is the author of New Views of Christianity, Society, and the Church; Charles Elwood, or the Infidel Converted (1840), a more or less autobiographic novel; Leaves from My Experience; Essays and Reviews; The Spirit-Rapper, an autobiography; The American Republic, a work on political ethics; and Conversations on Liberalism. He died April 17, 1876, in Detroit, Mich.
Bruback, Theodore
railroad president, was born March 7, 1851, in Pittsburg, Pa. He was elected president and manager of the San Pete Valley railroad in 1888, which position he still holds. He is organizer and president of the Marion Gold Mining Co., and vice-president and general manager of the Gold Belt Water company of Salt Lake City, Utah.