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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Broadhead, Garland Carr, geologist, author, was born Oct. 30, 1837, in Charlottesville, Va. In 1875 he was employed by the Smithsonian institution to make collections in Missouri for the centennial exhibition; and in 1884 collected objects for the New Orleans exhibition. For many years he was state geologist of Missouri; and since 1885 has been a member of the Missouri River commission.

The results of his geological investigations in Missouri are published in Missouri Geological Reports, and in the Missouri Geological

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Brochus, Perry E., lawyer, jurist, was bom He was an early emigrant to Utah, and in 1850 was appointed a United States judge for that territory. He died in Utah. Brock, Robert Alonzo, antiquarian, historian, genealogist, author, wag born March 9, 1839, in Richmond, Va. He received an academic education. In 1875-93 he was corresponding secretary of the Virginia historical in Virginia.

Survey.

society;

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Broadhead, James Overton, lawyer, state diplomat, congressman, was born May 29, 1819, in Charlottesville, Va. He was a member of the state legislature of Missouri in 1847; was a state senator in 1850-54;

even

its

senator,

and was a delegate to the state constitutional conventions of 1845 and 1861. He was provost-marshal-general of the department of Missouri in 1863; was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1875; and was the first president of the American bar association in 1878. In 1883-85 he was a representative from Missouri to the forty eighth congress as a democrat. He died Aug. 6, 1898, in St. Louis, Mo. Broadhead, John C, congressman. In 182933 and 1837-39 he was a representative from

New York

to the twenty-first, twenty-sec-

ond and the twenty-fifth congresses. He died in New York. Broadhurst, George H., dramatist, author. He is the author of the plays What Happened to Jones; The House That Jack Built; The Man of the Hour; and The Mills of the Gods. Broadus, John Albert, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 24, 1827, in Virginia. He was president of the Southern baptist theological seminary. He was the author of Preparation and Delivery of Sermons; Lectures on Preaching; Sermons and Addresses; and Jesus of Nazareth. He died Jan. 34, 1895, in Louisville,

Ky.

Broadwater, Charles Arthur, banker, railroad president, was bom Sept. 35, 1840, in St. Charles, Mo. In 1882 he founded the Montana national bank, of which he was president.

The Montana

central railroad, of

which he was the president, was built by him; and he was president of banks in Great Falls, Livingston and Neihart. He died May 24, 1893, in Montana. Brobst, Samuel Kistler, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 16, 1822, in Lynn township, Pa. In 1847 he founded the Jugend Freund, the first juvenile magazine published in the United States in the German language, which subsequently was followed by the Lutherische Zeitschrift. He also founded a Teachers' seminary which became Muhlenberg college at AUentown, Pa. He is the author of several works in German; and an annual Lutheran Church Almanac in German and English.,

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and edited volumes of

Collections. Since 1887

he has been secretary of the Southern historical

and

society;

is

the editor of twenty volumes of its papers. In 1879-83 he was associate-editor of the of Richmond, Va. He is a member of about seventy learned societies in the United States, Canada and Europe. Since 1890 he has been registrar and historian since its inception, and is now secretary

Richmond Standard

of the Virginia society sons of the American revolution. He possesses a library of twenty-five thousand volumes ; more than twenty thousand folio pages of manuscript notes, genealogical and historical, and recorded in alphabetical order; and also numerous autographs, coins and other articles secured as an antiquarian. He is the author of numerous Monographs on historical subjects. Brock, Sidney G., journalist, lawyer, author, was born April 10, 1837, in Cleveland, Ohio. He received the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. from Allegheny college of Meadville, Pa. In 1886-88 he was mayor of Macon, Ga. He is the author of The Hawaiian Islands,

Their History, Products and Commerce; History of the Navigation, Commerce and Tonnage of the Great Lakes History of the Pacific States and Alaska; and Advance of the United States for a Hundred Years. Brockenborough, William, lawyer, jurist,

legislator,

was

bom

July

10, 1778.

He

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resented Essex county in the Virginia state legislature; and was subsequently a councilor. He was judge of the general court in 1809-34, when he was appointed one of the judges of the court of appeals, an ofiice that he retained until his death. He died Dec. 10, 1838, in Richmond, Va.

Brockenbrough, J. W., lawyer, jurist, was born in Virginia. He was appointed a judge of the United States district court of Virginia.

Brockenbrough, John, clergyman, physiciwas born Feb. 7, 1839, in Westmoreland county, Va. During the civil war he was first an assistant and then a full surgeon in the confederate states army. When peace was restored, he practiced medicine for a time in Westmoreland county, Va. He was an, bishop,

consecrated bishop-coadjutor in 1894.