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 HERRING-SHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. her sight, hearing, smell and partially her taste by a severe fit of sickness. At eight years she was placed under the care of Dr. S. G. Howe, in the Perkins institute for the blind in Boston, with satisfactory results. She can read from raised letters, write, and skillfully play the piano, make fine crochet-work, and select colors all by the sense of touch; being the first person so afflicted who was educated. She died May 24, 1889, in Boston, Mass. Bridgman, Lewis Jesse, illustrator, artist, author, was born Nov. 17, 1857, in Lawrence, Mass. In 1893-93 he was president of the first nationalist club of Boston, Mass. In 1901-04 he was a member of the school board of Salem, Mass.; and was elected to a second and third three-year term ending in 1910. In 1892 he was a delegate to the national convention of the people's party at Omaha, Neb. He is the author and illustrator of Mother Wild Goose; Gulliver's

Bird Book; Bridgman's Kewts; Guess Again; Lawsonized Lyrics; Seem-So's; and The Santa Glaus Club. Bridgman, Marcus Fayette, physician, author, poet, was born in 1824 in Vermont. He was a physician of Boston, Mass. He is the author of Mosaics; Under the Pine; and Tales at the JIanse. He died in 1899 in Boston, Mass.

Bridgman, Raymond Landon, journalist, was born Sept. 26, 1848, in Amherst, Mass. He is the author of Ten Years of Massachusetts; Biennial Elections; The Master Idea; Loyal Traitors; World Organization; The Passing of the Tariff; and The First Book of World Law. author,

Brier, Warren Judsoii, educator, lecturer, college president, author, was born Nov. 22, 1850, in Baraboo, Wis. He was educated at

Baraboo high school attended the Baraboo collegiate institute; and in 1874-75 attended the university of

Wisconsin. In 187586 he was principal of the Plymouth high school;

and

city

more than fifty years. He held was several times state senator; and did much by his energy and

there for

many

local offices;

public spirit to increase the prosperity of the town. He died Aug. 8, 1874, in Newport, R.I.

Briggs, Ansel, governor.

He was

the

first

governor of Iowa in 1846-50. Biiggs, Caleb, physician, geologist, philanwas born May 24, 1812, in North He was engaged in the Rochester, Mass. first survey of the coal and iron regions of Ohio. He entered upon the work in 1837, explored Scioto, Lawrence, Gallia, Athens, thropist,

Jackson and Hocking; and afterward Wood, Crawford and Tuscarawas counties. After the survey terminated in 1839 he was employed in surveying the western counties of Virginia. He then settled at Ironton, Ohio, where he engaged in mining; and gave twenty-five thousand dollars to found a public library. He died Sept. 28, 1884, in North Rochester, Mass. Briggs, Charles Augustus, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 15, 1841, in New York City. Since 1875 he has been a clergyman prominent among the leaders of newer religious thought; and a professor at the Union theological seminary of New York City. In 1892 he was tried for heresy and acquitted. He is the author of Biblical Study; Ameri-

Messianic Prophecy, can Presbyterianism notable for its display of the true historical spirit; The Authority of Holy Scripture; The Messiah of the Apostles; The Messiah of the Gospels; The Higher Criticism of the Hexateuch; The Bible, the Church, and the Reason; and A Theological Question for the Times. Briggs, Charles E., artist, poet, was born Sept. 19, 1828, in Fairhaven, Mass. He is an artist in landscape and fruit painting in Brewster, Mass. His poems occasionally appear in the periodical press. Briggs, Charles Frederick, journalist, author, was born in 1804 in Nantucket, Mass. He received a. thorough education in the public and private schools of New Eng;

He was

a joureditor of New York City; and the valued friend of many of the prominent literary Americans of his time. He was the author of Adventures of Harry Franco, a Tale of the Great Panic; also The land. nalist

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perintendent of the I3araboo high school attended the Baraboo 1886-89. In 1889-98 he- was professor of literature in the state normal school of Eiver Falls, Wis.; and since 1898 has been president of that institution. He has lectured extensively on educational and literary subjects; and in 1895 he was president of the Wisconsin teachers' association. He is the author of two dramas entitled A Soldier of Fortune; and Jedediah Judkins. Briggs, Amos, manufacturer, state senator, was bom in 1795 in East Greenwich, R.I. In 1820 he removed to Schaghticoke, N.y.; and was engaged in manufacturing

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Haunted

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of Tom Pepper; and Working a Passage, or Life on a Liner. He died June 20, 1877, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Briggs, Frank A., governor was born in 3850. In 1897-98 he was governor of North Dakota. He died Aug. 9, 1898, in Bismarck,

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