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 So BRICKETT. BRINE. board of water commissioners, elected in 1884, and member of the school board since 1887. BRICKETT, Benjamin Franklin, son of Franklin and Mehitabel Dow (Bradley) Brickett, was born in Haverhill, Essex county, April 10, 1846. He was educated in the public schools, Phillips Academy, Exeter, where he was fitted for college; entered Dartmouth in 1863, and was graduated therefrom in the class of 1867. Choosing the profession of law, he passed the usual preliminary studies, was gradu- ated from the Harvard law school, and was admitted to the bar in 1869. He then taught school two years in Glendale, Ohio. He returned to Haverhill, in 1872, and commenced the practice of his profession, in which he is still successfully engaged. Mr. Brickett was chairman of the Demo- cratic city committee from 1882 to '86; city solicitor, Haverhill, 1883, '84 and 85; a member of the school committee from 1876 to '82 ; he has been closely identified with the politics of city and state, and is one of the most promising young Demo- crats in Essex county. Living in a strongly Republican city, Mr. Brickett has been at a decided disadvan- tage in gaining political preferment, but his efforts in behalf of his party, and in defence of his principles and convictions, have gained him prominence and distinction in the state. Mr. Brickett was married in Great Falls, N. H., July 25, 1S89, to E. Jennie, daugh- ter of George and Eliza (Ricker) Guptill. BRIGHAM, Lincoln Flagg, son of Lincoln and Lucy (Forbes) Brigham, was born in Cambridgeport, Middlesex county, October 4, 1S19. After obtaining his early education at the public schools, and fitting for college, he entered Dartmouth in 1838, graduating in 1842, and immediately entered the Harvard law school, where he graduated in 1844. He then studied law in the office of John H. Clifford and Harrison G. O. Colby, of New Bedford, where he was admitted to the bar in Bristol county court of common pleas in 1845. He formed a law partnership in New Bedford, with John H. Clifford, which lasted till the hitter's election as governor of Massachusetts, when Mr. Brigham was appointed district attorney for the southern criminal district, which office he held for six years. Upon the organization of the superior court, in 1859, Mr. Brigham was made an associate justice and appointed Chief Justice in 1869, an office which he now holds. On the 20th of October, 1847, at New Bedford, Judge Brigham was married to Eliza Endicott, daughter of Thomas and Sylvia (Perry) Swain. Their children are : Thomas Swain, Lincoln Forbes, Clifford, and Augustus Perry Brigham. BRINE, William Henry, was born in Boston, September 23, 1841. He was the second child of Robert and Ellen Ann (Rowe) Brine, who were the parents of ten children, of whom nine are still living. The senior Brine and wife celebrated their golden wedding in 1S88. Their children were all educated in the public schools of Cambridge, where Mr. Brine was a pupil at the Putnam school. In 1855, when about fourteen years of age, Mr. Brine entered the employ of Jon- athan Wheeler, a dealer in dry goods in East Cambridge, on a salary of one dollar per week. Alert and obliging, the boy soon became a salesman, and he soon transferred his connections to the well- known dry goods firm of Hogg, Brown & Taylor, of Boston, where close attention to the particulars of the business gave him the mastery of every detail and a comprehen- sion of its scope and possible extension. In i860 Mr. Brine accepted a responsi- ble situation with the business of John Harrington, of Somerville, with whom in 1 86 1, hardly twenty years of age, he became a partner. The young firm, united with W. L. Lovell, purchased the stock and stand of John Holmes & Co., in the city of Bos- ton, where they established the business which has since proved so large and suc- cessful. In 1SS4, after a prosperous career of over twenty years, the firm of John Har- rington & Co. was dissolved by the retire- ment of Mr. Harrington. Mr. Brine, in connection with John Henry Norcross, of the long established house of Lewis Cole- man & Co., then formed the firm of Brine & Norcross. In 1884 Mr. Brine visited Europe in the interest of the house, and established busi- ness connections with English and conti- nental manufacturers, which have proved of great advantage. Mr. Brine was married in East Cam- bridge, September 26, 1865, to Hannah South wick, daughter of John and Cornelia (Devine) Cannon, of Cambridge. He now resides in Somerville, and has a family of six children : Henry Clinton, now a merchant in Cambridge, Ellen, Blanche,