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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Bremer, Alex Hugo Waldemar, musician, was born Jan. 15, 1850, in Denmark. Since 1867 he has been engaged in our most prominent bands and orciiestras. He has been president of the musical mutual protection union; and president of the national league. He organized the musicians independent Cleveland club. Bremicker, Charles, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 16, 1862, in Germany. He received a thorough education; graduated

president of several financial and industrial corporations of Peterborough, N.H. Brengle, Francis, congressman, was born in 1806 in Maryland. lu 1843-45 he was a representative from Maryland to the twenty-eighth congress. He died Dec. 10, 1846, in Frederick, Md.

from the Presbyterian seminary of Dubuque, Iowa; and he graduated from the McCormick theological seminary of Chi-

largest operators in the northwest. He died March 1, 1890, in Hot Springs. Brennan, Thomas Francis, clergyman, In bishop, was born in 1853 in Ireland. 1891 he was consecrated bishop of Dallas, Texas; was vicar apostolic of Labrador in 1893-94; and auxiliary bishop of Newfoundland in 1894-95. Brenner, Carl C, painter, artist, was born Aug. 1, 1838, in Germany. His first occupation was that of a sign-painter; and during the civil war he did considerable illustrating of military experiences while serving on the staff of General Stephen G. Burbridge. As a painter he devoted himself principally to landscapes; and his studies of the beech tree under all groupings and conditions was He died July 22, especially noteworthy. 1888, in Louisville, Ky. Brenner, John L., business man congressman, was born in 1833 in Wayne township, Ohio. He engaged in farming until 1862; then engaged in the nursery business, which pursuit he followed quite successfully until 1874, when he then engaged in the leaf tobacco business. In 1897-1901 he was a representative from Ohio to the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth congresses as a democrat. Brenner, Victor David, sculptor, artist, was born June 12, 1871, in Russia. In 1893 he started as a die cutter. He has works in the metropolitan museum of art and in the Luxembourg museum of New York City; in the Museum of fine arts of Boston, Mass.; and many other places.

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also chief editor of Der Presbyterianer. He is the author of the Life and Works of Vender Lippe, a noted clergyman of the presbyterian church. Brenan, Joseph, journalist, poet, was born in 1829, in Ireland. For several years he was on the editorial staff of the New Orleans Delta. His best-known poem was The Exile to his Wife. He died in May, 1857, in Xew Orleans, La. Breneman, Abram Adam, chemist, lecturwas bom April 28, er, inventor, author, 1847, in Lancaster, Pa. In 1879-82 he was professor of industrial chemistry at Cornell; and since then has been actively engaged as an analyst and a chemical expert of New He has written on the chemis;-)rk City. try of ceramic manufactures ; and delivered a course of lectures on that subject in New York City. He is the inventor of the Breneman process of rendering iron non-corrosive. Manual of IntroducHe is part author of tory Laboratory Practice. is

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Brennan, James Francis, lawyer, jurist, was born March 31, 1853, in Peterborough, i>.H. He was educated in the academy at Peteraborough, N.H. and graduated in 1884 with the degree of LL.D. from the university of Maryland at Baltimore. He has in attained success the practice of law at

Peterborough, N.H. and has had charge of many important law suits. He is one of

I the three trustees of the New Hampshire state library; and is a member of the New Hampshire state board of charities and corrections. He has held several offices; and is 2Y

Brennan, Thomas, manufacturer, born in November, 1838, in Ireland. In 1881 he gave up railroading to engage in the lumber business; and became known as one of the

Brent, Henry Johnson, artist, author, was born in 1811 in Washington, D.C. He contributed to Porter's Spirit of the Times, over the well-known

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Almost Alpublished as a serial in the Knickerbocker; and Was it a Ghost? a theory and discussion of the celebrated murder of the Joyce children. He died Aug. 3, 1880, in New York City. Brent, Charles Henry, clergyman, bishop, author, was born April 9, 1862, in Ontario, one,

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