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Bruce, Alexander Campbell
architect, was born March 16, 1835, in Fredericksburg, Va. He has designed a number of court houses and public buildings in Knoxville, Tenn., prominent among them the Chattanooga courthouse.
The finest buildings in Atlanta were designed by him, among them the Technological institute, Kiser law construction, high school and county courthouse.
Bruce, Archibald
physician, educator, was born in February, 1777, in New York. In 1807 he was appointed professor of materia medica and mineralogy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, being the first to fill such a chair in the United States. After 1812 he filled the same chair in Queen's, now Rutgers, college, New Jersey. He projected the American Mineralogical Journal in 1810, and edited it until 1814. His chemical analysis of native magnesia from New Jersey made known to science the mineral now called after him, Brucite. He died Feb. 22, 1818, in New York.
Bruce, Blanche K
statesman, was born of slave parents March 1, 1841, in Prince Edward county, Va. He received a limited education; and became a planter in Mississippi in 1869. He was a member of the Mississippi levee board, and sheriff and tax collector of Bolivar county from 1872 until his election to the United States senate in 1875, as a republican. For many years he was register of the treasury at Washington, D. C., and was filling that position when he died in 1898.
Bruce, Dwight Hall
journalist, author, was born June 21, 1834, in Lenox, N. Y. He became the managing editor of the Oswego Times; and in 1869 he became part owner and editor of the Syracuse Journal. He is the author of The Memorial History of the City of Syracuse.
Bruce, George
typefounder, was born July 5, 1781, in Scotland. In 1812 David went to England and brought back the secret of stereotyping. The brothers introduced this process in New York, being compelled to cast their own type, so as to give it a deeper shoulder. They invented various appliances to aid in stereotyping, and in 1816 gave up publishing to start a type foundry. George gave his attention to type founding, David his to stereotyping. In this trade he made reputation and a fortune. With his nephew, David Bruce, Jr., he invented the only type-casting machine that has stood the test of time, and brought out many new and beautiful styles of letters. He died July 6, 1866, in New York city.
Bruce, George Washington Le- Roy
farmer, lecturer, was born July 6, 1852, in Resel county, Ala. He is prominent in the political affairs of Louisiana; since 1892 has been state lecturer of the Farmers' Alliance; and received the nomination for governor on the populist ticket in 1892. He has also attained success as a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church south.
Bruce, Henry
naval officer, was born Feb. 12, 1798, in Machias, Maine.
He was appointed to the navy as midshipman from Massachusetts in 1813, commissioned commodore in 1862, and retired in 1867.
Bruce, James
farmer, legislator, was born Nov. 3, 1827, in Harrison county, Ind. He was major commanding southern battalion of the Oregon mounted volunteers in 1855-56, and during the centennial in 1876 was one of the judges of agricultural implements. He has twice been a member of the house of representatives in the Oregon legislature.
Bruce, John
soldier, planter, jurist, was born Feb. 16, 1832, in Scotland. He entered the union army and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier-general. He settled in Alabama as a cotton planter, and was a representative in the state legislature in 1872 and 1874. In 1875 he was appointed, by President Grant, United States district judge for the district of Alabama.
Bruce, Phineas
congressman, was born June 17, 1762. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1792, 1793, 1796, and 1800, and was elected a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1803 to 1805. He died Oct. 4, 1809.
Bruce, Sanders Dewees
soldier, journalist, author, was born Aug. 16, 1825, in Lexington, Ky. He served in the civil war, and attained the rank of colonel.
He founded the widely known sporting journal, Turf, Field and Farm, and is the author of American Stud Book, and The Thoroughbred Horse.
Bruce, Wallace
lecturer, author, poet, was born Nov. 10, 1844, in Hillsdale, N. Y. He is a poet and lecturer, and the author of From the Hudson to the Yosemite; The Land of Burns; The Connecticut Daylight; in verse, The Hudson; Yosemite; Old Homestead Poems; Wayside Poems; In Clover and Heather; and Here's a Hand.
Brucker, Ferdinand
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1858, in Bridgeport, Mich. He graduated from the law department of the university of Michigan in the class of 1881; is a lawyer by profession, and served as alderman of the city of East Saginaw in 1882-84. He held the office of judge of probate for Saginaw county two terms, from 1888 to 1896; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress.
Bruin, Peter Bryan
jurist. He was appointed, in 1798, one of the first United States judges for the territory of Mississippi.
Brumbaugh, Henry Boyer
bishop, college president, was born April 1, 1836, in Huntingdon, Pa. He is president of Brethren's Publishing company, and was for many years president of Juniata college; vice-president of Orphans' home, and vice-president of Union National bank.
He is the bishop of his church and dean of the biblical department of Juniata college.
Brumm, Charles N
soldier, congressman, was born June 9, 1838, in Pottsville, Pa. He enlisted in the union army in 1861, and served throughout the war, being commissioned an assistant-quartermaster and detailed on staff duty. He was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the forty-sixth congress, and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the fortyseventh, fortyeighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.
He was a prominent candidate for governor of Pennsylvania.
Brundidge, Stephen
congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1857, in White county, Ark. In 1886 he was elected prosecuting attorney for the first judicial district of Arkansas, and re-elected in 1888 without opposition. Since 1890 he has served a term as member of the democratic state central committee of Arkansas, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Bruner, John Simeon
poet, was born Feb. 11, 1863, in Hope, Ind.; has written extensively for the periodical press, and his poems have appeared in several standard works.
Brunner, David B
educator, congressman, author, was born March 7, 1835, in Amity, Pa. In 1869 he was elected county superintendent of the public schools of the county, which office he filled until 1875; taught private school until 1880, when he opened the Reading Business college, and has since been the principal of that institution. He is the author of an elementary work on English Grammar and Analysis, and a work entitled The Indians of Berks County, Pennsylvania: He has devoted much time to mineralogy and microscopy, and has large collections of specimens in those departments of science. He was elected to the fifty-first congress, and re-elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Brunner, John Hamilton
clergyman, college president, was born March 2, 1825, in Greene county, Tenn. After receiving his education at Greenville and Tusculum college, he entered the ministry, and subsequently became president of Hiawassee college, Tennessee.
He is a fellow of the society of science, letters and art of London, England, and prominent in educational affairs.
He has contributed valuable articles to current literature on various educational and religious topics that have been incorporated into standard collections.
Brunot, Felix R
business man, philanthropist, was born Feb. 7, 1820.
Middle life found him a man of wealth, and he projected, founded and for many years served as president of the Mercantile library of Pittsburg, and is yet one of the managers of the Library hall of Pittsburg, which originated with him.
Bruns, John Dickson
surgeon, poet, was born Feb. 24, 1836, in Charleston, S. C. During the civil war he was surgeon of a general hospital of the confederacy. In 1866 he was chosen professor of physiology and pathology in the New Orleans school of medicine. His poetical writings evince graceful versification and marked power of description. He died May 20, 1883, in New Orleans, La.
Brunson, John C
farmer, public official, state legislator, was born July 20, 1822, in East Bloomfield, N. Y. He received an academic education; and since 1845 has lived in Victor, Mich. He has attained success as a farmer and merchant; was justice of the peace for thirty-five years; postmaster for twenty-five years, and for two years was a representative in the Michigan state legislature.
Bruse, James E
lawyer, banker, was born April 14, 1860, in Brooklyn, Iowa.
He has attained success as an able lawyer in his native state; has been county attorney, president of the Citizens' bank of Anita, and takes a prominent part in public affairs.
Brush, Alexander
manufacturer, was born Feb. 8, 1824, in New York. In 1848, with his brother, he started in the brick business, in which they prospered and became the most extensive brick manufacturers in the western part of New York. He died June 1, 1892.