Bryant, Gridley – Buchanan, John Alexander
Bryant, Gridley
engineer, was born in 1789 in Scituate, Mass. In 1823 he invented the portable derrick. He obtained the contract for building the United States bank in Boston, and other public buildings, and was master builder and contractor to supply stone for Bunker Hill monument. He died Jan. 13, 1867, in Scituate, Mass.
Bryant, Joel
physician, author, was born Nov. 10, 1813, in Suffolk county, N. Y. He moved to Brooklyn in 1850, and became quite prominent as a practitioner. He was the author of several treatises on homeopathy, the best of which was The Pocket Manual, or Repertory of Homeopathic Practice. He died Nov. 20, 1868, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Bryant, John Howard
farmer, poet, was born July 22, 1807, in Cummington, Mass. He is the author of Poems; and Poems Written from Youth to Old Age.
Bryant, Nathaniel C
naval officer, was born March 27, 1823, in Nobleborough, Maine. He was appointed midshipman in the United States navy in 1837; and attained the rank of commander in 1862.
Bryant, Wilbur Franklin
lawyer, author, politician, was born March 21, 1851, in Dalton, N. H. In 1873 he graduated from Kimball Union academy of Meriden; and subsequently attended Dartmouth college.
He then entered educational work in Mississippi. In 1876 he moved to Nebraska, and a year later was admitted to the bar. He has practiced his profession in Nebraska at St.
Helena, where he was postmaster for three years; and at West Point and Hartington. In 1882 he was elected district attorney for sixteen counties; for several years he was judge of Cuming county; and is now a member of Governor Holcomb's staff, with rank of colonel. He was one of the founders of the people's party in Nebraska, and has been a member of every state convention since its foundation. He was a member of the bimetallic congress of 1893; and is the state president of the Catholic Knights of America.
Bryant, William
clergyman, poet, was born in 1850 in England. After receiving his education he entered the ministry, and since 1887 has been pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Marshalltown, Iowa. He has written numerous poems, many of which have appeared in various hymn books and the secular and religious press generally.
Bryant, William Cullen
poet, was born Nov. 3, 1794, in Cummington, Mass. He was a journalist of New York.
He early began the practice of law, but soon abandoned it for journalism and, removing to New York in 1825, became in 1828 the editor of the Evening Post, with which he remained associated until his death. His earliest poem, The Embargo, a political satire, was published when its author was but thirteen, but the first collection of his poems was not made until 1821, the famous Thanatopsis being one of the eight which the volume comprised. The quantity of Bryant's verse is small, the quality high, but not uniformly so. Its tone is usually calmly philosophic, and it rarely makes any very effective appeal to the sympathies, its coldness arising partly from lack of humor, partly from natural reserve. He is the author of The Embargo; The Spanish Revolution; The Ages; The Fountain of Youth, and Other Poems; The White-Footed Deer; The Flood of Years; Thirty Poems; translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, both in unrhymed heroic pentameter; Letters of a Traveler, a prose work; and Orations and Addresses. He died June 12, 1878, in New York.
Bryant, William Mckendree
educator, author, was born in 1843, in Indiana. He is a prominent educator of St. Louis, and the author of Philosophy of Landscape Painting; The World Energy and its Self-Conservation; Syllabus of Psychology; Ethics and the New Education; and Text Books of Psychology.
Bryant, William Perkins
jurist, was born Aug. 3, 1806, in Mercer county, Ky. He was an early emigrant to Oregon when it was a territory; and in 1849 was appointed chief justice of the United States court for that district. He died Oct. 10, 1860.
Bryant, William W
educator, author, poet, was born July 11, 1860, in Breathitt county, Ky. For several years he was engaged in educational work, and in 1884 moved to Minnesota. In 1892 he was elected commissioner of Cass county; subsequently became treasurer and president of the board of education. com-
Bryce, James Paterson
soldier, designer, librarian, was born Dec. 19, 1832, in Lanark, Scotland. He commenced life as a designer of patterns for muslin, which he followed for ten years.
He entered the union army in 1861 and was wounded the following year near Rolla, Mo. In 1887 he became librarian of the public library of Springfield, Ill., and has attained prominence as a cataloguer.
Bryce, Lloyd S
journalist, congressman, author, was born Sept. 4, 1851, in Flushing, N. Y. He was appointed paymaster-general of the state of New York in 1886, and was elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat. During 1889-96 he was editor of the North American Review, and is the author of Paradise; A Dream of Conquest; The Romance of an Alter Ego; and Friends in Exile.
Bryde, Archibald M
state senator, congressman, was born in Moore county, N. C. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1809 to 1813; and subsequently a member of the state senate for two years.
Bryson, Andrew
naval officer, was born July 22, 1822, in New York city.
He entered the navy as midshipman in 1837; was promoted lieutenant in 1851; commander in 1862; captain in 1866; commodore in 1873; and rear admiral in 1880, with which rank he was retired in 1881.
Previous to his retirement, after fortythree years of service, he was in command of the South Atlantic station.
Bryson, John Paul
educator, physician, was born April 16, 1846, in Macon, Miss. He is consulting physician of the St. Louis hospital; surgeon of the St.
Louis Murphy hospital; and for fifteen years professor of genito-urinary surgery in the St. Louis Medical college.
Buchanan, Andrew
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1839.
Buchanan, Franklin
naval officer, was born Sept. 17, 1800, in Baltimore, Md. In 1861 he entered the confederate army as captain and for his services was tendered a vote of thanks by the confederate congress, and appointed admiral and senior officer of the confederate navy..
He died May 11, 1874, in Maryland.
Buchanan, Hugh
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 15, 1823, in Scotland. He was elected to the state senate of Georgia in 1855, and re-elected in 1857. He was a delegate to the democratic national convention of 1856; was a presidential elector in 1860; delegate to the democratic national convention of 1868; was a judge of the superior court from 1872 until 1880. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1877; and was elected a representative from Georgia to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses.
Buchanan, James
fifteenth president of the United States, was born April 22, 1791, in Franklin county, Pa. He graduated at Dickinson college in 1809, and was admitted to the bar in 1812. He was elected to the state legislature in 1814. In 1820 he was elected representative to congress, and held the office by re-elections for ten years.
In 1831 he was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Russia, and elected United States senator in 1834. He was re-elected in 1840, and continued a member of that body until 1845, when he was appointed secretary of state, which office he held four years.
Mr. Buchanan was appointed minister to England in 1853, and returned in April, 1856. June 2, 1856, the national democratic convention met at Cincinnati to nominate a candidate for the presidency.
On the first ballot James Buchanan received 135 votes; Franklin Pierce, 122; Stephen Arnold Douglas, 33; Lewis Cass, 5. On the ninth ballot the vote stood:
Buchanan, 141; Pierce, 87; Douglas, 56; Cass, 7. On the sixteenth ballot Buchanan had 168; Douglas, 121. On the seventeenth Buchanan was unanimously nominated. John Cabell Breckenridge was nominated for vice-president, and they were elected the following autumn. They were inaugurated March 4, 1857. At the close of his presidential term he retired to his home at Lancaster, Pa., and died June 1, 1868. Buchanan held office nearly thirty-eight years. He died worth about $200,000.
Buchanan, James
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 17, 1839, in Ringoes, N. J. He was a member of the board of education of Trenton, N. J., in 1868-69; was presiding judge of Mercer county during 1874-79; and was a member of the common council of Trenton in 1883-85. He was elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first and fifty-second congresses as a republican.
Buchanan, John Alexander
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 7, 1843, in Smyth county, Va. He served as a private in the Stonewall brigade, confederate army; was taken prisoner at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, and remained in prison until February, 1865. He was a member of the house of delegates of Virginia from 1885 until 1887; and was elected to the fifty-first and fiftysecond congresses as a democrat.