Brush, Alfred Erskine – Bryant, George E
Brush, Alfred Erskine
lawyer, was born Feb. 14, 1850, in Detroit, Mich.
The management and improvement of his father's large estate give him ample employment. The Hotel Ste. Claire, the Lyceum theater and Detroit Driving club are properties in which he is largely interested, as well as the Michigan Peninsular Car company.
Brush, Charles Francis
electrician, inventor, was born March 17, 1849, in Euclid, Ohio. The Brush system was a success from the start. Mr. Brush is a large owner in the General Electric and in several other large corporations.
Among his inventions are the series arc lamp, having a shunt circuit of high resistance, which made lighting from central stations practicable; copper-plated carbons, the automatic cut-out for arc lights, the compound series shunt winding for dynamos, the multiple carbon arc lamp, and the fundamental storage battery. Fierce litigation has taken place over some of these inventions, but Dr.
Brush's patents have been, as a rule, fully sustained. He is president of the Euclid Avenue National bank of Cleveland, Ohio.
Brush, Mrs. Constance
(CHAP- LIN), artist, author, was born in 1842 in Maine. She was an artist in water-colors whose home was in Brooklyn. Her most important book, The Colonel's Opera Cloak, a novel, was first published anonymously. Her only other works are two stories, Inside Our Gate; and One Summer's Lessons in Perspective. She died in 1892.
Brush, George Jarvis
mineralogist, author, was born Dec. 15, 1831, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Since 1857 he has been identified with the Sheffield Scientific school. He has published a Manual of Determinative Mineralogy and has been a constant contributor to the American Journal of Science. a
Brush, George Washington
soldier, physician, surgeon, state senator, was born Oct. 4, 1842, in Huntington, N. Y.
In 1861 he enlisted as private in the forty-eighth regiment, New York volunteers; served throughout the war, and attained the rank of captain. He received the congressional medal of honor for conspicuous gallantry in an engagement on the Ashepee river in May, 1864. In 1876 he graduated from the Long Island Medical college, and has since practiced his profession in Brooklyn. In 1894 he was elected a member of the New York assembly, and in 1897 was elected to the state senate.
Brush, Henry
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1778 in Dutchess county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1819 to 1821, and was a judge of the supreme court of the state. He died Jan. 19, 1855.
Bruyn, Andrew D. W
congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1838. He died July, 1838, in Ithaca, N. Y.
Bryan, Anthony H
physician, educator, was born Aug. 22, 1832, in Monticello, Ky. He accepted a professorship of general pathology in the Evansville Medical college in 1876. He has been a frequent contributor to the various medical journals in the country, and his articles are noted for singular clearness.
Bryan, Edward Knight
educator, clergyman, was born in 1844, in Jamaica, West Indies. He was principal of one of the Houston city schools, principal of the Texarkana city school; and in 1887-88 was chaplain of Mary Allan seminary. In 1887 he was ordained a clergyman of the presbyterian church, and has since filled several important pastorates in Texas and Arkansas.
Bryan, George
jurist, state legislator, was born in 1731 in Dublin, Ireland. He was a member of the Pennsylvania state assembly, and in. 1765 was a delegate to the stamp-act congress, in which, and in the subsequent struggle, he took an active part. He was vice-president of the supreme executive council of Pennsylvania from the period of the declaration of independence, and in May, 1778, was advanced to the presidency. In 1779 he was elected to the legislature. He was appointed a judge of the state supreme court in 1780, and remained in that office until his death. He died Jan. 27, 1791, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Bryan, George S
jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. He settled in Charleston, S. C., and in 1866 was appointed United States judge for the district comprising that state.
Bryan, Guy M
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born June 12, 1821, in Missouri. He bore a part in the military campaign of Texas in 1836; in 1847 was elected to the Texas legislature, and served in the house and senate seven years. He was elected a representative from Texas to the thirty-fifth congress.
Bryan, Henry H
congressman, was born in Martin county, N. C. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1819 to 1823. He died May, 1835, in Montgomery county, Tenn.
Bryan, John A
public official, was born in Massachusetts. After holding a clerkship in the general postoffice, he was, in 1842, appointed second assistant postmaster general, holding the position about one year. A son of his was subsequently connected with the postal service of the empire of Japan.
Bryan, John H
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1798 in Newbern county, N. C. He served a number of years in the state legislature; and was a member of congress from North Carolina from 1825 to 1827.
Bryan, Joseph
congressman, was elected a representative in congress from Georgia from 1803 to 1806.
Bryan, Joseph H
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1815 to 1819.
Bryan, Mrs. Mary Edwards
journalist, author, was born in 1846, in Jefferson county, Fla. She is a journalist and has written the novels Manch; Wild Work, a story of the reconstruction period in Louisiana; The Bayou Bride; and Kildee.
Bryan, Nathan
congressman, was born in 1791, in Jones county, N. C. In 1791 he represented Jones county in the house of commons; and was a member of congress from North Carolina from 1795 to 1798. He died June 4, 1798, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Bryan, Thomas Barbour
commissioner, lawyer, was born Dec. 22, 1828, in Alexandria, Va. He entered the practice of law in Chicago, Ill., and in 1893 was first vice-president of the World's Columbian exposition.
Bryan, Thomas Jefferson
art collector, was born about 1800 in Philadelphia, Pa. He formed a valuable collection of paintings, which he bequeathed to the New York historical society. His favorite work was a beautiful face and figure by Greuze. He died at sea May 15, 1870.
Bryan, William Jennings
lawyer, congressman, candidate for the presidency of the United States, was born March 10, 1860, in Salem, Ill. His boyhood was passed on a farm near that place, and he attended the public schools for five years; he then took a course at Whipple academy and completed his education by a four years' course at Illinois college. As a student in the law office of Lyman Trumbull, Chicago, he attended the Union College of Law in Chicago till June, 1883, when he removed to Jacksonville, Ill., and practiced law there for four years. In Oct., 1887, he located in Lincoln, Neb., and opened a law office. He was elected to congress in 1890, and his first speech gave him a national reputation; he was re-elected in 1892, and his speech on the repeal of the Sherman act is considered a masterpiece on bimetallism. He was placed in nomination for the presidency by the democratic, free silver and populistic parties, in 1896, and led a brilliant campaign. He is the author of The First Battle; and A Story of the Campaign of 1896.
Bryant, Edwin
pioneer, author, was born in 1805 in Massachusetts. Before 1846 he was for some time a journalist in Kentucky. In the summer of that year, chiefly with a view to traveling, he acted as leader of a party of emigrants from Missouri to California. While various parties had gone overland to California since 1841, the large numbers and the critical circumstances of this emigration gave it much historical importance. He was the author of What I Saw in California. He died in 1869 in Louisville, Ky.
Bryant, Edwin Eustace
soldier, state legislator, college dean, was born Jan. 10, 1835, in Milton, Vt. In 1857 пe moved to Wisconsin, and entered upon the practice of law. In 1861 he entered the union army as a volunteer; served throughout the civil war, being successively promoted an officer in line, staff and field. From 1868 to 1872 he was private and executive secretary to the governor of Wisconsin; from 1876 to 1882 was adjutant general of Wisconsin; in 1878 was elected a representative in the Wisconsin legislature; and declined a re-nomination. In 1885 he was appointed assistant attorney general of the United States for the postoffice department. Since 1889 he has been dean of the college of law of the university of Wisconsin.
Bryant, George E
farmer, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Feb. 11, 1832, in Templeton, Mass. He received his education in the Norwich university, Vt. For eight years he was postmaster of Madison, Wis.; and six years quartermaster general of Wisconsin. In 1880 he was a delegate to the republican national convention, and was one of the 306 who voted for U. S. Grant. He has filled the high offices of judge, state senator, and secretary of the board of agriculture.