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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOaRAPHY. Briscoe, Franklin Dulin, sculptor, artist, 30, 1844, in Baltimore, Md.

was born April

He has painted A Breezy Day The Wreck of the Aspasia; Off

off

Dieppe;

to the Rescue; The North Atlantic; and The Battle of bettysburg, which has ten canvasses. Briscoe, James C, soldier, was born in Ireland. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the first regiment New York infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died May 24, 1869. Briscoe, John Parran, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 34, 1853, in Calvert county, Md. In 1875 he began the practice of law in Baltimore, Md. In 1890 he was appointed chief judge of the seventh judicial circuit of Maryland; and judge of the court of appeals for term ending in 1907. Briskell, Robert C, lawyer, jurist. He was chief justice of the supreme court of Alabama. He died Nov. 30, 1900, in Huntsville. Bristed, Charles Aster, journalist, author, was born Oct. 6, 1820, in New York City; and was a son of John Bristed, the noted ,

^jB«|^

clergyman and author.

He

R_^J^g^m^^

received

thorough education in the public schools of New York City. He was a popular writer in the a,

newspapers and magazines of ty.

New York

He was

Ci-

the author

of live Years in an English University

The Upper Ten Thouand; The Inference Theory of the Government; Pieces of a Broken-down Critic; and Anacreontics. He died Jan. 15, 1874, in Washington, D.C. Bristed, John, clergyman, author, was born in 1778 in England. His principal works are Critical and Philosophical Essays; Resources of the United States, 1818; Anglo-American

Churches; Edward and Anna: a Novel; and Tour Through the Highlands of Scotland. He died Feb. 23, 1855, in Bristol. Bristol, Mrs. Augusta Cooper, educator, lecturer, author, poet, was bom April 17, 1835, in Croydon, N.H. For several years she was president of the ^

A Pedestrian

ladies' social science class of Vineland, N.J.

In

1880

she

gave

a

course of lectures before the New York positivist society on The

its

Relations

to

Evolution of Character. She is the author of The Relation of the Maternal Function to the Woman's Intellect; The Philosophy of Art; Science and Character; The Present

Phase of Woman's Advancement; and The

Web

of Life, a collection of verse.

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Bristol, Frank Milton, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 4, 1851, in Orleans county, N.

Y. He is now pastor of the metropolitan methodist episcopal church of Washington, D. C. He is the author of Providential Epochs; The Ministry of Art; and Shakespeare and America. Bristol, George Prentiss, educator, author, was born June 21, 1856, in Clinton, N.Y. Since 1898 he has been professor of Greek in Cornell university of Ithaca, N.Y. He is the author of The Teaching of Greek in Secondary Schools. Bristol, John Bunyan, landscape painter, author, was born March 14, 1824, in Hillsdale, N.Y. In 1875 he became a member of the national academy of design. At the beginning of his career he painted iigures and portraits, but afterward turned his attention exclusively to landscapes.

were from nature.

Among

his

His studies

works are Au-

tumn Afternoon, Bolton, Lake George; Sunrise, Mount Mansfield; Adirondacks, from Lake Champlain; and On the St. John's River, Florida.

Bristol,

jurist, statesman, 19, 1833, in Stafford, N.Y.

Warren, lawyer,

was born March He was president

of the first republican state convention of Minnesota in 1855. He was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1864; was a representative in the state legislature in 1865; and was a state senator in 1866-70. In 1873-86 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of New Mexico. Bristol, William, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1779 in Hamden, Conn. He was judge of the United States district court for the state of Connecticut; and was a member of the superior court of that state in 1819-26. He

died March 7, 1836, in New Haven. Bristow, Benjamin H., soldier, lawyer, cabinet officer, was born June 20, 1833, in Elkton, Ky. In 1861 he entered the union army as lieutenant -colonel in the twenty-fifth regiment Kentucky infantry; and subsequently commanded the eighth Kentucky cavalry. While serving in the field he was elected to the Kentucky state senate for four years in 1866 was appointed United States district attorney for the district of Kentucky and in 1870 was appointed solicitor-general of the United States. In 1874-76 he was secretary of the treasury. He died June 33, 1896, in



New York

City.

Bristow, Francis Marion, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 11, 1804, in Nicholasville, Ky. In 1831 and 1833 he was elected to the Kentucky state legislature; in 1846 to the state senate; and in 1849 was a member of the state constitutional convention. In 1854-55 and 1859-61 he was a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-third and thirty-sixth congresses. He died June 10, 1864, in Elkton, Ky. Bristow, Frank L., musician, composer, was born April 25, 1844, in Jacksonville, HI. He has been president of the state teachers' association. He is the author of several col-