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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Virginia to the continental congress; and signed the declaration of independence. After that service he frequently served in the Virginia legislature. He died Oct. 10, 1797,

Richmond, Va. Braxton, Elliott M., lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1823, in Matthews county, Va. He was elected to the state senate in 1851; and was re-elected in 1853. He was elected to the common council of Fredericksburg in 1866. In 1871-73 he was a, representative from Virginia to the forty-second congress. Bray, Frank Chapin, journalist, author, was born May 7, 1866, in Salineville, Ohio. In 1899 he became editor of the Chautauquan Magazine; and since 1896 has been editor of all the Chautauqua publications. He is the author of Reading Journey in

Through Chautauqua. Brayman, Mason, soldier, lawyer, journalist, governor, was born May 23, 1813, in Buffalo, N.Y. He edited the Buffalo Bulletin in 1834-35; and in 1842 opened a law office in Springfield, 111. In 1844-45 he revised and published the statutes of Illinois under the appointment of the governor and the authority of the state legislature. He afterward became interested in railroad en-

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served through the civil war; was brevetted major-general. In 1876-80 he was governor of the territory of Idaho. He died Feb. 27, 1895, terprises.

and at

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Kansas

close

City,

Mo.

Brayton, Alembert

Winthrop, physician, naturalist, author, was born March 3, 1848, in Avon, N.Y. He is the author of Birds of Indiana; Mammals of Ohio; and Fishes of the Southern Allegheny Region, with Twenty Species New to Science. Brayton, Charles, lawyer, jurist. In 181418 and 1827-35 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island. Brayton,

Charles

Ray,

soldier,

lawyer,

1840, in Warwick, R.I. In 1861 he enlisted as first lieutenant in the third regiment Rhode Island volunteers; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general United States volunteers. In 1867 he served as captain in the seventeenth regiment United States infantry. Since 1891 he has been an attorney of Warwick, R.I. Brayton, George A., lawyer, jurist. In 1848-68 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island; and in 1868-75 he was chief justice. Brayton, Samuel Nelson, educator, physician, journalist, was bom Jan. 11, 1839,

was born Aug.

16,

Queensbury, N.Y. In 1877 he became professor of the theory and practice of medin

icine

in

the Buffalo college of physicians

and surgeons upon its establishment; and was dean of the faculty in 1881. He was also editor of the Eclectic Physicians' and Surgeons' Investigator in Buffalo. He died 17, 1893, in Buffalo, N.Y. Brayton, William D., state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 6, 1815, in War-

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wick, R.I. In 1841 he was elected to the state assembly, serving two terms. In 1848 he was elected to the state senate; again elected to the state assembly in 1851; and in 1855 was a second time elected state senator. He was a presidential elector in 1856. In 1857-61 he was a representative from Rhode Island to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He died about 1900 in

Warwick,

R.I.

Brazer, Clarence Wilson, designer, architect, was born March 13, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1903 he has been engaged as an architect of New York City. The floor plans of his design were incorporated in the new capitol building of Porto Rico at San Juan. Brazza, Cora, litterateur, author, was bom in 1862 in Louisiana. She is the author of An American Idyl; a Literary Farce; and Guide to the Old and New Race in Italy. Breare, George W., lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 28, 1858, in Newton, Ala. In 1880 he moved to Florida; and in 1881-90 was a justice of the peace for Suwannee county. In 1896 he was elected county judge of Lafayette county, Fla.; and served until 1898. He died in Mayo, Fla. His son James Albert Breare is a successful school teacher of Mayo, Fla. Brearley, David, soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1745. He was lieutenant-colonel in the revolutionary army. He was a member of the state and federal constitutional conventions of New Jersey. In 177989 he was chief justice of the supreme court of New Jersey; and in 1789 was appointed United States judge for the district of New Jersey. He died Aug. 16, 1790, in Trenton, N.J. Brearley, William Henry, soldier, journalist, founder, author, was born July 18, 1846, in Plymouth, Mich. In 1862-65 he served in the civil war in the seventh regiment Michigan volunteer infantry. In 1873-87 he was advertising manager of the Detroit News; and was proprietor of the Detroit Journal in 1887-92. He founded the Detroit museum of art in 1883; and founded the Detroit chamber of commerce in 1892. He is the author of Recollections of the East Tennessee Campaign; Wanted, Copyist; and Leading Events of the American Revo-

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lution.

James Henry, educator, Egyptwas born Aug. 37, 1865, in Rockford, 111. Since 1895 he has been an Breasted,

ologist, author,

instructor in the university of Chicago; since 1905 professor of Egyptology and oriental history; and is now engaged in an Egyptian expedition in the interest of the He is the author university of Chicago. of A New Chapter in the Life of Thutmose III; Ancient Records of Egypt; History of Egypt; and Through Egypt With a Stereoscope. Breathitt, John, educator, civil engineer, lawyer, legislator, governor, was born Sept.