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Brough, Charles Henry, soldier, legislator, was born Nov. 17, 1813, in Marietta Ohio. He was a member of the Ohio state legislature in 1840-41; and commanded the fourth Ohio regiment during the war with Mexico. He was presiding judge of Hamilton county court of common pleas at the time of his death. He died May 10, 1849, jurist,

in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Brough, John, journalist, railroad president, governor, was born Sept. 17, 1811, in Marietta, Ohio. He was a member of the Ohio state legislature; in 1839-45 he was auditor; and in 1846 opened a law office in In Cincinnati and published the Inquirer. 1848 he as president of the Madison and Indianapolis railway; and in 1853 was president of the Bellefontaine and Indianapolis railroad. In 1864-65 he was the twentyfourth governor of Ohio. He died Aug. 29, 1865, in Cleveland, Ohio. Brough, William, merchant, author, was born Sept. 23, 1826, in Scotland. In 1849 he began a commercial career in New York City; and in 1860 was so engaged in Pennsylvania. He was one of the pioneers in the development of the petroleum industry; and

was first vice-president of the oil producers' association. He was the author of The Natural Law of Money; and Open Mints of Free Banking. He died about 1904 in New

Hamburg, N.Y. Brougham, John,

May

actor, author,

was born

He was a

noted dramatist and comedian; and the author of over a hundred comedies and farces, many of which, like The Lottery of Life; Playing with Fire; Vanity Fair, and The Irish Emigrant, have been very successful. 9,

1810, in Ireland.

1880, in New York City. Thomas, lawyer, statesman. He was councilor and collector of customs in South Carolina in 1708. He was afterward lieutenant-governor; and in 1735-38 was governor. He died in 1738 in South

He

died June Broughton,

7,

Carolina.

Broun, Thomas Lee, soldier, lawyer, was born Deo. 26, 1833, in Loudoun county, Va. In 1848 he graduated from the university of Virginia. For two years he taught school; and in 1852 was admitted to the Kanawha bar. In 1858 he Avas elected president of the Coal river navi-

gation

company; and

third regiment of the Wise which was subsequently known as the sixtieth regiment Virginia infantry. For

major

in the

legion,

two years he was commander

Va.; was severely wounded at the battle of Cloyd's mountain; and served until the surrender at Appomattox in 1865. In 1866-70 he practiced law in New York City; and since 1870 has practiced his profession in Charleston, W.Va. ^or half a century he has made a specialty of West Virginia law and land titles; and has also devoted much time to the development of the Coal river region, where he owns large tracts of lands. In 1880, 1883 and 1886 he was a delegate from the diocese of West Virginia to the triennial protestant episcopal conventions held in New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago; and has filled various other positions of trust and honor. He is a, brother of the late Dr. William Leroy Broun. Broun, William Leroy, soldier, educator, physician, surgeon, college president, was born in 1827 in Loudoun county, Va. In

1850 he was graduated

from the university of Virginia. He duly professorships in the college of Oakland and in the university of Georgia; and then

West

filled

organized the Bloomfield academy. In 1861 lie enlisted as a lieutenant of artillery in the confederate service; and subsequently he was made commandant of the Richmond arsenal. He then accepted the chair of natural philosophy in the university of Georgia; and in 1872 was elected president of the Georgia agricultural and mechanical college. In 1875-82 he filled the chair of mathematics in the Vanderbilt university. He then became president of the Alabama polytechnic institute, which developed under his able administration into a scientific institution of the highest rank. He died Jan. 23, 1903, in Auburn, Ala. Brounoff, Platen, musician, composer, founder, author, was born in Russia. At the age of fifteen years he entered the musical institute of Warsaw; __ received a scholarship in the Imperial conservatory of St. Petersburg; and gradu-

ated under Anton Ru-

was

re-elected to that position directly after the close of the civil war. In 1861 he en-

tered the confederate service as a private in the Kanawha riflemen, which became the nucleus for the twenty-second regiment He was promoted to Virginia infantry.

of the post

and major quartermaster at Dublin Depot,

binstein

and Rimaky-

Korsakofif. He came to the United States in 1891; and soon af-

terward he settled in York. Since then he has been a teacher,

New er

and conductor.

lecturer, pianist, sing-

He

is

the composer of