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was born June 10, 1848, in Pittsburg, Pa. He was a student in the Western university

Cruz in 1847; and was promoted to rear admiral in 1862. In 1863 he served as. lighthouse inspector; and in 1869 was port-ad-

Pennsylvania. In 1867 he graduated from the Hamilton college with the degree of A.B.; and in 1870 graduated from Auburn theological seminary. During the same year he became pastor of the Presbyterian church of St. Paul, Minn. In 1885 he organized the church of the covenant in Chicago; and became its pastor. In 1894 he was pastor of the presbyterian church of Pittsburg, Pa. Since 1898 he has been professor of practical theology in the Western theological seminary at Allegheny, Pa. He is the author of Abraham, the Typical Life of Faith; History of the Preparation of the World for Christ; Heresy and Heresy; and The History and Use of Hymns and Hymn Tunes. Breed, William Pratt, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 33, 1816, in Greenbush, N.Y. In 1856-89 he was a, presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, Pa. He was the author of Jenny Geddes; Home Songs for Home Birds; Grapes from the Great Vine; and A Board and Abroad. He died Feb. 14, 1889,

miral of Philadelphia. He died Dec. 17, 1870, in Mt. Airey, Pa. Breese, Sidney, soldier, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, author, was born July 15, 1800, in Whitesborough, N.Y. In 1833-37 he was state attorney; and then was appointed United States district attorney for Illinois. In 1839 he published a volume of Decisions of the Supreme Court, which now bears his name, and was the first octavo volume published in the state. He served in the Black Hawk war as a lieutenant of volunteers; and in 1835 was elected a circuit judge. In 1843-49 he was United States senator from Illinois. In 1850 he became a member of the Illinois state legislature; and was elected speaker. He was one of the originators of the Illinois central railroad; and in 1855 was again placed on the circuit court bench, and made chief judge. He published a work on Illinois in 1869. He died June 37, 1878, in Pinckneyville, 111. Breidenbaugh, Edward Swoyer, educator, chemist, author, was born Jan. 13, 1849, in Newville, Pa. He is a professor of chemistry in Pennsylvania college; and in 188084 was mineralogist of the Pennsylvania state board of agriculture. He is the author of Notes on Inorganic Chemistry; Outline of Qualitative Analysis; and Mineralogy of

in Philadelphia, Pa.

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Breen, Aloysius Andrew, educator, clergyman, college president, was born Sept. 1, 1867, in Chicago, 111. In 1903 he was ordained a priest; and since 1907 has been president of St. Mary's college of Kansas.

Breitung, Edward, capitalist, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1831,

Breed, David Riddle, clergyman, author,

of

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Breen, Patrick, pioneer, was born in IreHe was with the Conner party who during the winter of 1846-7 were snowed in in the Sierras. Breen himself finally escaped with all his family, after great suffering. He kept a, diary during the time of the imprisonment of the party in the mountains; and this is the only contemporary record of their remarkable and tragic experiences. He died in 1868 in Caliland.

fornia.

Breese,

Kidder

Randolph, naval

officer,

was born April 14, 1831, in Philadelphia, Pa. As passed midshipman he served in Commodore Perry's Japan expedition; and was on the Macedonian, which visited the northern end of Formosa to search for coal and inquire into the captivity of Americans on that island. He next served on the San Jacinto, which captured one thousand and five hundred slaves on the coast of Africa;

and took Mason and

Slidell

from on board

the Trent in 1861. In 1874 he attained the rank of captain. He died Sept. 13, 1881. Breese,

wag born

Samuel Livingston, naval

officer,

1794 in Utica, N.Y. He was present at the battle of Lake Charaplain in 1814; was present at the capture of Vera in

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Germany. In 1873 he was elected a representative to the Michigan state legislature for the term of two years; was state senator in 1877-78; and was mayor of Negaunee in 1878-80 and 1883. In 1883-85 he was a representative from Michigan to the forty-eighth congress as a republican. He died March 3, 1887, in Negaunee. Mich. Brelsford, Charles Henry, educator, author, was born May 11, 1853, in Bucks county. Pa. Since 1884 he has been supervisor of the public schools of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of Columbia Series of Graded Spelling Books. Brelsford, Homer P., lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 1, 1869, in Onarga, 111. He received a thorough education; and graduated from Notre Dame university of Indiana. He is a successful lawyer of Eastland, Texas; and hag served as special associate justice of the court of appeals for the second district of Texas. He served two terms as a representative in the Texas state legislature; and has been a member of the state democratic executive committee of Texas. Since 1902 he has been a, representative in the Texas state legislature. Breman, Dominic M., clergyman, poet, in

was born about 1865 in Albany, N.Y. For several years he was an associate editor of the Union and Times of Buflfalo, N.Y. He

is

the author of Heart-Tones, poems.