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 HERRINGSHAW'S LiBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Bricher, Alfred

was born April H. He was an tional academy

Thompson, painter,

10, 1839, in

artist,

Portsmouth, N.

associate member of the naof design. Among his more drawings are Sunset in October;

notable The Maiden's Rock, Lake Pepin; Mt. Adams; On the Esopus; Off Halifax Harbor; A Lift in the Fog; St. Michael's Mount; and What the Tide Left. Brick, Abraham Lincoln, lawyer, congress-

man, was born county, Ind.

May 27, 1860, in St. Joseph Since 1883 he has practiced law

in

South

Bend,

Ind. In 1886 he was elected tlie prosecuting attorney for two counties; and in 1896 was a delegate to the

republican national convention. In 18921900 he was a member of the faculty of law department the of the university of

Notre Dame, Ind.

representative

In 1899-1907 he was a from Indiana to the fifty-

fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth and fiftyninth congresses as a republican. He died April 7, 1907, in Indianapolis, Ind. Brickell, John, physician, historian, was born in England. He lived at Edenton, N. C. ; and practised his profession there. Later he returned to England; and in 1737 published The Natural History of North Carolina, with an Account of the Trade, Manners and Customs of the Christian and Indian Inhabitants. He died in England. sixth,

Brickell,

Robert

Coman, lawyer,

jurist,

was born in Tuseumbia, Ala. In 1873 he became an associate justice of the supreme court of Alabama; and in 1874-84 and in He died in 1894-1900 was chief justice. 1900 in Montgomery, Ala. Brickett, James, soldier, surgeon, was He was made lieutenantborn in 1737. colonel in 1775; was wounded at Bunker Hill; and in the following year was made brigadier-general in the expedition preparing for Canada. After* Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga in 1777 he was placed in command of the escort; and marched six thousand prisoners from the battlefield on Hudson river to Cambridge, Mass. He died Dec. 9, 1818, in Haverhill, Mass. Brickner, George H., manufacturer, congressman, was born Jan. 21, 1834, in Germany. He became a successful woolen manIn ufacturer of Sheboygan Falls, Wis. 1889-94 he was a representative from Wisconsin to the fifty-first, fifty-second and He fifty-third congresses as a democrat. died in 1904 in Sheboygan Falls, Wis. Bridewell, Lemuel Owens, soldier, lawyer, journalist, was bom Nov. 2, 1829, in Port He graduated from the Gibson, Miss. Union college of Schenectady, N.Y., with In 1851 he was adthe degree of A.M.

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mitted to the bar; and the same year founded the Reveille of Port Gibson, Miss., of which he was editor until 1854. In 1854-55 he was clerk in the Interior department; and judge of the probate and orphan's court of his county in 1855-58. In 1861 he became a captain in the confederate army; and subsequently was promoted to major. He still practices law in Beauregard, Miss.; and is the author of several works. Bridge, Horatio, naval officer, lawyer, journalist, was born April 8, 1806, in Augusta, Maine. He published the Journal of an African Cruiser, the authorship of which is usually accredited to his classmate, Na-

The book was edited by Hawthorne from Bridge's notes. He was assigned to duty as chief of the bureau of provisions and clothing; the duties of thaniel Hawthorne.

which he faithfully performed for nearly fifteen years, covering the whole period of the civil war, and involving transactions and disbursements to the amount of many He was retired with millions of dollars. the rank of commodore. He was the author of Journal of an African Cruiser. He died

March

20, 1893, in

Athens, Pa.

James Howard,

journalist, author, in 1858, in Manchester, England. Since 1897 he has been editor of Overland Monthly of San Francisco, Cal. He is the Fortnight in Heaven ; and Uncle author of

Bridge,

was

bom

A

Sam

at Home. Bridge, Norman, physician, author, was born Dec. 30, 1844, in Windsor, Vt. He was educated at the high school of Sycamore, 111.; in 1868 graduated from the Chicago

medical college; and has received the degrees of M.D. and A. M. Since 1873 he has been a teacher in various

chairs;

and

is

now emeritus sor

of

profesmedicine of

Rush medical

college.

In 1881-84 he was a member and has twice been president of the Chicago board of education; and in 1886-90 was a member of the board of election commissioners of Chicago, 111. He is a member of the Chicago academy of sciences; and a member of various medical and scientific societies. He is the author of The Penalties of Taste and Other Essays; The Rewards of Taste and Other Essays; Lectures on Tuberculosis; and fifty papers on medical and cognate subjects in medical journals and books. Bridger, James, scout, was born in 1804 He was the pioneer disin Richmand, Va. coverer of the Yellowstone national park; and built his home at Fort Bridger, Wyo. He advised General Sheridan regarding a campaign against the Indians. Mount Ridger. Fort Bridger and Bridger, Wyo., were