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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.

432 lections of

singing books for classes; and

two cantatas

for ladies' voices,

Rainbow and

Pleiades.

Bristow, George Frederick, musician, comwas born Dec. 19, 1825, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was an organist and violinist. He was the composer of the opera Rip Van Winkle; and of the cantata The Great Republic. He died Dec. 13, 1898, in New York City. poser,

Bristow, Henry, soldier, merchant, congressman, was born June 5, 1840, on Azore Islands. Until 1896 he was engaged in mercantile business in Brooklyn, N.Y. served as a member of the board of education in 188089; and was appointed city magistrate in 1896. He went to the front twice during the civil war. In 1901-03 he was a representative from New York to the fifty-seventh congress as a republican.

Bristow, Joseph Little, publisher, governofficial. United States senator, was born July 22, 1861, in Wolfe county, Ky. In 1886 he was graduated from Baker university at Baldwin, Kan. In 1886-90 he was clerk of the district court for Douglass county, Kan. In 1890-95 he owned and edited the Daily Republican of

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Kan.; and in 1895 bought the Ottawa Herald of Kansas. In 1895-97 he was private secretary to the governor of Kansas. In 1897-1905 he was fourth assistant postmaster-general; and he had charge of the re-organization of the Cuban postal service. In 1905 he was appointed special Panama railroad commissioner. In 3 903 he again purchased the Salina Daily Republican-Journal. In 1909 he became United States senator from Kansas for the term ending in 1913. Brittan, Nathan, educator, lawyer, inventor, was born Sept. 2, 1808, in Spencer, Mass. He invented a new lightning rod conductor, known as the continuous copper- strip, which was patented and received with general favor. He died Jan. 3, 1872, in Adrian, Mich. Salina,

Elizabeth

Gertrude, bryologist, scientist, was born Jan. 9, 1858, in New York City. In 1875-83 she taught in the training department of the New York normal college. Since 1880 she has studied mosses; and since 1888 has devoted most of her time to the collections at the New York botanical garden. She is a member of the botanical society of America. Britton, Everett Wilton, educator, scientist, was born Sept. 18, 1868, in Marlboro, Mass. In 1894-1901 he was horticulturist at the Connecticut agricultural experiment station; and since 1901 hag been Connecticut state entomogist. He has made valuable researches on the nutrition of plants; and on the life histories of insects. Britton,

Frank H., telegrapher, was born Nov. 29, 1850,

railroad in Ovid, N.Y. In 1868 he began railway service as a telegraph operator. In 1871-82 he was assistant and chief train dispatcher on- various divisions of the Louisville and Nashville railroad; and in 1883-92 he was superintendent of the Chicago division of the Baltimore and Britton, president,

Ohio railway. Since 1890 he has been vicepresident and general manager of the Great northern railway; and is also president of St. Louis south western railway of Texas. Britton, Nathaniel Lord, botanist, author, 15, 1859, on Staten Island, N. Y. In 1879-88 he was assistant geologist and then until 1896 professor of botany at the Columbia school of mines. Since 1896 he has been director of the New York botanical garden. He is the author of the Flora of New Jersey; and The Manual of the Flora of the Northern States and Canada.

was born Jan.

Britts,

Mrs. Mattie Dyer, author, poet,

was born in 1842 in New York City. She was educated in the high school of Indianapolis, Ind.; and at the McClain seminary. She is the author of sixteen books for young people, two novels, and a number of poems and hymns. The most notable of her prose works are Edward Lee; Nobody's Boy; Better Than Gold; Honest and Earnest; and A Houseful of

Girls.

Brizzolara, James, lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 9, 1848, in Richmond, Va. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools; and also studied under private teachers. He subsequently was admitted to the bar; and has attained success as an attorney-at-law of Port Smith, Ark. He has been city attorney; served as mayor; and was adjutant-general of Arkansas. He has been assistant United States district attornel; served as United States commissioner; was special circuit judge ; became special prosecuting attorney ; and served as postmaster.

Broaddus, Andrew, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 4, 1770, in Carolina county, Va. He was a baptist clergyman and noted as a pulpit orator. He was the author of History of the Bible; Form of Church Discipline; and Letters and Sermons. He died Dec. 1, 1848, in Virginia.

Broaddus, Elbridge J., lawyer, jurist, was born in Madison county, Ky. In 1867 he began the practice of law in Chillicothe, Mo. In 1874-80 he was judge of the seventeenth judicial circuit of Missouri. He then resumed the practice of law and in 1889 was elected mayor of Chillicothe, Mo. In 1891 he was appointed judge of the circuit court to fill a

vacancy.

The

legislature redistricted the his place of residence was put in the seventh judicial district; and in 1892 he was duly elected judge of that district. He served six years and was re-eleeted in 1898, state,

and

but before the expiration of his term he was elected judge of the Kansas City court of appeals for a term of twelve years and is now the presiding judge of that court.