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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Brownlow, William Gannaway, clergyman, United States senator, author, was born Aug. 39, 1805, in Wythe county, Va. He was

journalist, governor,

methodist preacher and a journalist of Knoxville, Tenn.; cona

spicuous for his fidelity to the union during the civil war; and was known as Parson Brownlow. In 1865-69 <—-*iF he was the sixteenth governor of Tennessee; in 1869-75 he was United States senator. He was the author of The Iron Wheel Examined and Its False Spokes Extracted, a reply to attacks upon methodism; Ought American Slavery to Be Perpetuated; and Sketches of the Rise, Progress and Decline of Secession. He died April 29, 1877, in Knoxville, Tenn. Brownscombe, Jennie Augusta, painter, artist, was born Dec. 10, 1850, in Honesdale, Pa. She was educated in the public schools of her native city ; studied art at the national academy and art students' league of New York City; and was a pupil under Henry Mosler, of Paris, France. She is a successful painter of figures, genre and ideal subjects in oil and water colors, many of which have been reproduced in etchings, engravings and photogravures. She exhibited at the national academy in 1876; and at the Koyal academy of

London

in 1900.

Brownson, Henry, soldier, was born in Vermont. He served throughout the civil war; and attained the rank of major and quartermaster; and was mustered out in 1865.

He

died Sept.

7,

1891.

Brownson, Henry Francis, soldier, lawyer,, author, was born Aug. 7, 1835, in Canton, Mass. lie was educated at the college of the Holy Cross; and studied at the university of Munich. He served as lieutenant, captain and major in the United States army for ten years. He was for a time a lawyer of Detroit, Mich.; and has filled

numerous

posi-

tions of trust and honor during half a century of active business life.

He

is

the author

of Faith and Science; The Religion of Ancient Craft Masonry; and Life of Orestes A.

Brownson. Brownson, James I., clergyman, author, was born March 14, 1817, in Mereersburg, Pa. Since 1849 has been pastor of the presbyterian church at Washington, Pa. In 185299 he was connected with the Washington college as trustee and president of the board of trustees. He was the author of Memorials of the Rev. Dr. David Elliott and the Rev. 30

Dr. Charles C. Beatty. Washington, Pa.

He

465

died in 1899

in

Brownson, Mary Wilson, educator, author, was born about 1865 in Washington, Pa. Since 1904 she has been professor of modem European history in the Pennsylvania college for women. She is the author of Old Testament Story, in four volumes; and His Sister.

Brownson, Nathan, physician, surgeon, colonial governor. He was a member of the provincial congress in 1775; was for some time a surgeon in the army; and speaker in the legislature of 1781. In 1781-82 he was colonial governor of Georgia. In 1776-78 he was a delegate from Georgia to the continental congress; speaker of the Georgia house of representatives in 1788; president of the senate in 1789-91; and in 1789 was a member of the convention that framed the state constitution. He died Nov. 6, 1796, in Liberty county, Ga.

Brownson, Orestes Augustus, clergyman, was born Sept. 16-, 1803, in Stockbridge, Vt. He was a prominent philosophical author,

thinker

who

in

early

was successively a presbyterian, a univerlife

salist clergyman, a socialist leader associat-

ed with Robert Dale Owen, and a unitarian clergyman, as well as an able political speaker at all times. In 1844 he became a catholic, and in B'rownson's Review, from that date until 1864, he ably defended the catholic faith from the standpoint of a liberal. His philosophy was more or less influenced by the thought of Cousin Pierre Leroux. He was the author of New Views of Christianity, Society, and the Church; Charles Elwood, or the Infidel Converted. The Convert, or Leaves from My Experience ; Essays and Reviews; The Spirit-Rapper, an autobiography; The American Republic, a work on political ethics; and Conversations on Liberalism. He died April 17, 1876, in Detroit, Mich. Brownson, Willard Herbert, soldier, was born July 8, 1845, in Lyons, N.Y. In 1865-68 he served in the flagship of the North Atlantic squadron. He commanded the Petrel, Dolphin and Detroit during the revolution in 1893-94 at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and commanded the Yankee during the Spanish-American war. In 1905 he became rear admiral; and in 1906 became commander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet. Since 1907 he has been chief of the bureau of navigation. Brubaker, Albert P., educator, author, was born Aug. 13, 1852, in Somerset, Pa. Since 1893 he has been lecturer on anatomy and physiology at the Drexel institute of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of Compend of Physiology.