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��where he lived four years ; soon after, he removed to this city, and was engaged in the dry-goods store of James Weldon, where he remained ten years. For several years during the war, he held the position of Deputy I'rovost Marshal and United States Marshal, and was a clerk in the Treasurer's oiBce of this county under T. J. Robinson. He was married, Oct. 30, 1853, in Mansfield, to Miss Elzina S. Grubaugh ; they are the parents of seven children. Charles Oscar was born Aug. 7, 1854; John Allen was born Aug. 1, 1857; Joseph Franklin was born March 27, 1860 ; Harry S. was born July 16, 1864; Elzina S. was born Dec. 15, 1866, and died April 15, 1868; Aden was born June 25, 1870, and Lee was born Feb. 19, 1872. Mr. Brin- ley died in this city Dec. 26, 1876 ; he was, for a num- ber of years before his death, a successful contractor and builder, and had the confidence and esteem of the community. He was a member of the I. 0. 0. F. for a number of years, and of the Methodist Church for twenty-five years. Mrs Elzina Brinley was born near Loudenville, Ashland Co., Nov. 19, 1833 ; she is now a resident of West Bloom street.

BRISrOR, T. G., dentist ; he was born in Washing- ton, Washington Co., Penn., in 1837 ; he came to Steu- benville, Ohio, in 1844, where he studied dentistry ; he came to Mansfield in 1858, and engaged in the prac- tice of dentistry. In 1865, he went to St. Louis, Mo., and practiced dentistry until 1872, when he returned to Mansfield ; he has been engaged here since. He is the oldest dentist in the city. He has branch offices at Shelby, Shiloh, Bellville and Hayesville, which places he visits once each month — Mondays and Tuesdays.

BRISTOR, JAMES R., dentist, Mansfield; he was born in Washington, Washington Co., Penn., Jan. 28, 1834, and emigrated to Steubenville, Ohio, April 1, 1845, with his father and mother ; in 1857, he con- nected himself with the dental profession and moved to Mansfield, in 1860, and located. He was married, Jan. 6, 1873, to Hannah M. Duncan, widow of Alex. Critchfield, of Millersburg, Ohio ; she was born at Bloomfield, Coshocton Co., Ohio, Feb. 26, 1840, and moved with her father and mother to Millersburg, Ohio, in the fall of 1852, and to Mansfield in January, 1873 ; they have three children — John Henry, born April 25, 1874; Harriet Louisa, Sept. 14, 1875 ; Laura Virginia, April 20, 1878. In 1876, Mr. Bristor was elected from the Fourth Ward as one of the city Coun- cilmen, and, in 1879, he was chosen to preside as Pres- ident of Council of the city of Mansfield. James R. Bristor was born of Henry M. Bristor and Minerva Ruple Bristor, his wife, both of whom were born in Washington Co., Penn. Henry M. Bristor was born of Thomas Bristor and Elizabeth Dubany Bristor, his wife, both of whom were born near the James River, in Eastern Virginia ; their parents lived within hearing distance of the cannon at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, Va. Minerva Ruple Bristor was born of James Ruple and Dina G. Ruple, in Washington Co., Penn. Hannah Duncan Bristor was born of John Duncan and Nancy Casey Duncan; her father emigrated from Washington, Penn., to Ohio, and her mother from Harper's Ferry, W. Va.

BRONSON, S. A., D. D., Pastor Protestant Episco- pal Church ; Dr. Bronson is a lineal descendant of

��Abraham Bronson, one of the two Bronsons who, in 1673, petitioned the court for the privilege of settling on a plantation in what is now the town of Waterbury, Conn.; Dr. Bronson's father, Bela Bronson, emigrated from Connecticut to Ohio and settled in what is now Columbia, Lorain Co., in 1807; the Doctor was then in ^lis infancy, and was carried in his mother's arms across the Cuyahoga, with the first team that crossed in the tide of Western emigration; he was taken to church by his mother and was baptized in AVaterbury, his native place ; the first minister of the Gospel he remembers to have seen was when he was about 9 years old ; his mother and the church service, read by lay- men, were his only teachers ; at the age of 16, he trav- eled on horseback about seventy miles in the fruitless search for a Latin dictionary ; he afterward attended school at Kenyon College, where he graduated in 1833 ; two years after, he was ordained to the ministry ; from 1845 to 1850, he was President of Kenyon College ; in 1867, he was Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the same institution ; in 1872, he came to Mansfield to accept the pastorate of the church here ; he had, how- ever, filled the pulpit a year and a half before coming. BURNS, BARNABAS, attorney at law. The parents of Mr. Burns, Andrew and Sarah (Caldwell) Burns, were Irish Catholics, and emigrated to America about the year 1800 ; they had a family of five children, three sons and two daughters. Mr. B., the young- est of five children, was born in Fayette Co., Penn., June 29, 1817 ; he emigrated with his pareuts to Milton Township, Ashland Co., settling there June 20, 1820; Mr. Burns remained on a farm until he was of age ; he received a common-school education, and also spent a short time in the Ashland and Mans- field schools. He came to Mansfield April 9, 1838, where he has resided ever since. He was Deputy Clerk of the Courts, from 1839 to 1846 ; he studied law in the offices of Hon. Thomas W. Bartley and Hon. Samuel J. Kirkwood, and was admitted to practice in the summer of 1848, and has practiced law in Mansfield from that date to the present time. In the fall of 1847, Mr. Burns was elected to the Ohio State Senate, and re-elected in the fall of 1849 ; he was Presidential Elector for the State at large, on the Democratic ticket, in 1852 ; he served as Colonel of the 86th 0. V. I. in the war of the rebellion, doing excellent service there ; after his return, he again began the practice of his pro- fession. In 1873, he was elected a member of the Con- stitutional Convention, and the same year was nominated on the Democratic ticket as Lieutenant Governor; out of a vote of nearly 600,000, he was defeated by only about five hundred votes; in 1876, Col. Burns was one of the Ohio Commissioners at the Centennial Exposition, fill- ing that office, like all others, in a manner satisfactory to all the interests concerned therein ; Col. B. has served several terms as one of the Trustees of the Ohio Soldiers' Orphans' Home; he is now, although 63 years old, actively engaged in the practice of his profession, being one of the oldest members of the Mansfield bar now in practice ; he has always been an active and con- sistent Democrat. Col. Burns was married, Sept. 16, 1841, to Miss Urath Gore; Mr. and Mrs. B. became the parents of seven children, two of whom died in infancy ; three sons and two daughters yet survive —

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