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barked in the ship Mayflower at Plymouth, England, setting sail Sept. 16, and arriving in Cape Cod bav on Nov. 21, 1620. He died April 16, 1644." Brewster, Wadsworth J., merchant, publisher, manufacturer, genealogist, was born Feb. 10, 1846. He was educated in the publicand private schools and academies of Hannibal and Dansville,

He

has been a salesman; traveling and for many years has been a manufacautomatic turer of heat regulators. He is the manager and pro-

N.Y.

the Brewster-Bradford company, the publishers and engravers of Detroit, Mich.; and is also a manufacturer of automatic heat regulators. For many years he has been identified with the industrial and financial interests of Detroit, Mich.; and has filled various other positions of trust and honor. He is the author of The Brewster Genealogical Charts; and other works. Brewster, William, ornithologist, author, was bocn July 5, 1851, in Wakefield, Mass. He has devoted his attention exclusively to the study of ornithology, becoming in 1880 assistant in charge of the collection of birds and mammals in the Boston society of natural history; and in 1885 at the museum of comparative zoology at Cambridge. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. In 1876 he became president of the Nuttall ornithological club of Cambridge. He has published articles in the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Qub; in the Annals of the New York Lyceum of Natural History; and in other pubprietor of

lications.

Brewster, William, manufacturer, was born June 2, 1866, in New York City. In 1885 he studied carriage building in Europe. Since 1888 he has been a partner in the firm of Brewster and company, carriage manufacturers. Brewster, William R., soldier. He was a colonel in the Excelsior brigade, organized by Daniel E. Sickles in 1861; and after the promotion of that oflBcer was made a brigadier-general of volunteers. 13, 1869, in Brooklyn, N.Y.

He

ing,

and presiding over

He

is

and was civil war he raised a company; Since 1901 he has commissioned major. been master in chancery of the United States circuit court. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. Brice, jurist,

soldier, lawyer, He in 1809, in Virginia. a lawyer; was a judge of common

Benjamin William,

was born

became

pleas in 1845; and was adjutant-general of the state in 1846. He was promoted brigadier-general in 1866; and in 1872 was retired from active service as a major-general. He died Dec. 4, 1892, in Washington, D.C.

Calvin Stewart, soldier, educator, States senator, was born Sept. 17, 1845, in Denmark, Ohio. He served through the civil war. He was delegate at large from Ohio to the St. Louis national democratic convention in 1888 Brice,

lawyer,

United

was

selected to represent Ohio on the national

democratic co-

mmittee; and he was chairman of the campaign committee for the ensuing national campaign. Then on the death of William H. Barnum he was unanimously elected chairman of the national committee in 1889. In 1891-97 he was United States senator. He died Dee. 15, 1898, in

New York

City.

John Jones, naval officer, was born Jan. 33, 1842, in Newark, Ohio. He entered the navy as a volunteer officer in 1861; Brice,

served during the civil war; and was twice .promoted. After the ci-

I

war he was transferred to the regular navy; served in many parts of the world;

ivil

I

and passed through

all

(grades to commodore in 1892. In 1894 he

author,



was

the author of Evangelical Landmarks. was Brice, Albert G., soldier, lawyer, jurist, born March 17, 1831, in Boone county, Ky. In 1856-57 he was a member of the Louisiana state legislature; and in 1858-62 was mayor of the of CarroUton, La. At the outbreak

died Dec.

Breyf ogel, Sylvanus C, clergyman, bishop, was born July 20, 1851, near Pleasantville, Pa. He served as a pastor for fourteen years; as a presiding elder for five years; and since 1891 has been a bishop in the evangelical association. Since 1895 he has also been president of the Evangelical school of theology. He has visited Europe and Japan in the performance of his episcopal duties and traveled extensively in the United States and Canada preaching, lectur-

coneditor

ecclesiastical

For several years he ferences. of a homiletical monthly magazine.

commanded the United I

retii-ed

for

steamship

in the Behring fleet patrol; and was disability in 1895. For two

years he was

commandant

States

Adams

of

fish

commissioner; and was

Mare Island during the

ter part of the Spanish-American war.

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