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president of the national prison congress; and was its president until his voluntary retirement in 1897. In 1895 he was president of the American delegation to the international prison congress at Paris, France. For many years he has been president of the Masfleld saving bank. He is the author of

The Volunteer Quartermaster; and

Kecollec-

tions of a Lifatime. Brinkerhoff, William, soldier, lawyer, statesman, was born July 19, 1843, in Jersey City, N.J. He served in the civil war as private. In 1865 he was elected mayor of Bergen, N.J.; and in 1864-69 he was the counsel for Hudson county, N.J. In 1883-87 he was a member of the New Jersey state senate; and in 1884 was appointed corporation counsel of Jersey City, N.J. Brinley, Charles A., surveyor, manufacturer, was born Aug. 23, 1847, in Hartford, Conn. In 1864-65 he was attached to the field party of the California state geological survey;

and was with the engineers employed by the United States government to survey a wagon-road to Colorado river. In 1874-93 he was superintendent of the Midvale steel company of Philadelphia, Pa.; and in 1882-93 was also general manager of the Franklin sugar refineries. Since 1898 he has been managing director of the American pulley company. Brinley, Francis, soldier, lawyer, legislator, author,- was born Nov. 10, 1800, in Boston, Mass. He was a member of the Boston common council for several years; and its president in 1850-51. He was a member of the lower house of the Rhode Island state legislature in 1833, 1850 and 1854; and in 1853, 1853 and 1863 was a member of the state senate. In 1853 he was a delegate to the

insula; Races and Peoples; Essays of an Americanist; and The Lenape and Their Legends. He edited the Maya Chronicles; The Comedy -Ballet of Gueguence; and Aboriginal American Anthology. He died July 31, 1899, in Atlantic City, N.J.

Brisbane, Abbott Hall, soldier, military engineer, author, was born in South Carolina. He served in the Florida war against the Seminole Indians in 1835-36 as colonel in the South Carolina volunteers. In 1848-53 he held the chair of belles-lettres and ethics in

the South Carolina military academy. He of Ralphton, or the Young Carolinian of 1776. He died Sept. 28, 1861, in

was the author

Summerville, S.C. Brisbane, William H., clergyman, abolitiowas born about 1803. He inherited a large number of slaves, but became convinced that slavery was wrong, and in 1835 he brought thirty-three of them north, manumitting them and aiding them to settle in life. Making his home in Cincinnati, he became the associate of prominent abolitionists, and a constant worker in their cause. In 1857 he became pastor of the baptist nist,

church in Madison. In 1874 he took an active part in the reunion of the old abolition guards in Chicago. He died in 1878, in Arena, Wis. Brisbane, William Henry, state official, business president, financier, was born Nov. 28, 1854, in Allentown, Pa. He received his education in the public V

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state constitutional convention. He published an Address before the Franklin Debating Society of Boston; and a life of his brotherin-law, William T. Porter, founder of the Spirit of the Times. He died June 15, 1889, in

Newport,

He was

health officer and presiTroy board of health for many years; and president of the Renssalaer medical society. He was the author of The Registration of Diseases. He died June 16, 1868, in Troy, N.Y. Brinton, Daniel Garrison, educator, journalist, author, was born May 13, 1837, in Chester county. Pa. He was a professor of archaeology in the university of Pennsylvania in 1880-99. He was the author of The Myths of the New World; The Religious Sentiment; American Hero-Myths; Aboriginal American Authors; The Floridian Penford, Conn. dent of the

He moved

to the state of Colorado; and has been principally engaged in mining, real es,

tate and cattle, with headquarters in Leadville, Col. He has been

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Brinley, George, book-collector, was born May 15, 1817, in Boston, Mass. In 1840 he removed to Hartford, Conn.; and there collected the most important library of Americana in the world, which he bequeathed to Yale and other libraries. He died May 14, 1875, in Bermudas. Brinsmade, Thomas Clark, physician, author, was born June 16, 1802, in New Hart-

and Quaker schools of Philadelphia, Pa.; and under private tuition.

state treasurer of Col-

orado; and has numerous other

filled

posiin his city, county and state. He is prominently identified with the republican party of Colorado; has been a member of various committees; and has attended several conventions of his party.

tions of trust

Brisbin,

and honor

James

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A., soldier,

Boalsburg, Pa.

was born May

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served in the

war; and was made brigadier-general. Brisbin, James Sanks, soldier, author, was born in 1837, in Boalsburg, Pa. He was brecivil

vetted colonel in the regular army in 1865 for meritorious services during the civil war. He was the author of Campaign Lives of Grant and Colfax; The Beef Bonanza; and Trees and Tree Planting. He died Jan. 14, 1892, in Philadelphia, Pa. Brisbin, John, congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1851 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-first congress as a whig to fill a vacancy.