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Among Them " (3d eel., 1880) ; " Free Trade as Promoting Peace and Good-will Among Men" (1879) ; •• Gesta Oirista, or, a History of Hvmiane Progress under Christianity " (3d ed., 1885), and "To the Unknown God" (1889). Shortly after his death an endowment fund, in connection with the Children's aid society, was established to his memory, known as the " Brace Memorial Fund." He died at Campfer, Switzerland, Aug. 11, 1890.

BRACE, John Pierce, educator, was born at Litchfield, Conn., Feb. 10, 1793. He was gradu- ated from Williams college with the degree of A.M. in 1812, and devoted his tune to study and teaching. In 1832 he settled in Hartford, as prin- cipal of the Hartford female seminary. Under his guidance the seminary, which had already acquired a wide reputation under the charge of his niece, Catherine E. Beecher, became one of the leading schools of its class in New England. He finally abandoned this work, however, to as- stune editorial management of the Hartford Courant, already a journal of excellent standing, and to which he gave a still higher literary and scientific reputation. Among his books are: "Lecture to Young Converts," "Tales of the Devils, ' ' and ' ' The Fawn of the Pale-faces. ' ' He was a ripe all-round scholar. His son, Charles Loring, became a noted philanthropist and re- former. He died Oct. 18, 1872.

BRACKENRIDGE, Hugh Henry, jurist, was born near Campbelltown, Scotland, in 1748; the son of a poor farmer who immigrated to the United States in 1753. He earned his way through col- lege and was graduated from Princeton in 1771. After teaching for five years he entered journal- ism, and for some time had editorial charge of the United States Magazine of Philadelphia. He studied theology, and during the revolutionary war acted as chaplain in the army. After being admitted to the bar, in 1781, he opened a law office at Pittsburg, Pa. He was interested and active in the political controversies of the time, and during the famous "whiskey insurrection" of 1794 he was a strong advocate of a peaceable ad- justment of the difficulty. In 1799 he was made judge of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. " The Rising Glory of America," which he wrote in conjimction with Philip Freneau, while at col- lege, was published in 1772; "Bunker Hill," a drama, in 1776; " Incidents of the Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania," in 1795; " Eulogium of the Brave who fell in the Contest with Great Britain," in 1778; "Modern Chivalry, or the Adventures of Captain Farrago and Teague O'Reagan, his Servant," in 1796; " Gazette Publi- cations Collected," in 1806, and "Law Miscel- lanies," in 1814. His son, Henry Marie, was also a well-known author. He died at Carlisle, Pa., June 25, 1816.

BRACKETT, Albert Gallatin, soldier, was born in Cherry valley, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1829. When a boy of seventeen he went to Indiana, where he, upon the outbreak of the war with Mexico, joined the volunteer force enlisted from that state, and was given the rank of 1st lieuten- ant and assigned to Lane's brigade. After ser- ving bravely in the several battles in which the brigade was engaged, he was honorably dis- charged July 16, 1848. In 1855 he raised a com- pany of Indiana and Illinois volunteers for frontier service against the Comanche Indians on the Texas border. At the beginning of the civil war he was stationed at Texas as captain of cav- alry, and escaped when General Twiggs surren- dered to the Confederates. He repaired to Washington, where he was in command of the cavalry at the battle of Blackburn Ford in 1861, and also at Bull Run. He was promoted to the rank of colonel in August, 1861, and commanded the 9tli Illinois cavalry in the Arkansas campaign, where he served with distinguished bravery, and at its close was given the rank of major in the regular army, June 28, 1862. The following year he was attached to the department of the Missouri as chief of cavalry, and in 1864 to the department of the Cumberland as inspector gen- eral of cavalry. He afterwards received the brevets of lieutenant-colonel and colonel, and later was given the full commission. His subse- quent service was mostly in the west against the Indians. He was made colonel of the 3d cavalry in 1879, and later was commander of Fort Davis, Texas. He was retired at his own request, being over sixty-two years of age, Feb. 18, 1891. He is the author of " General Lane's Brigade in Cen- tral Mexico " (1854), and " History of the United States Cavalry" (1865), besides several short articles. He died June 25, 1896.

BRACKETT, Edward Augustus, sculptor, was born in Vassalborough, Me., Oct. 1, 1819; was noted for his characteristic busts of Longfel- low, Bryant, Dana, Sumner, Choate, Allston, Phillips, Garrison, General Butler, and many others. His most important ideal work is a life- sized group in marble entitled, "The Ship- wrecked Mother and Child," which was exhibited in Boston and New York in 1852, was for many years in the Boston Athenjemn.

BRACKETT, John Quincy Adams, governor of Massachusetts, was born at Bradford, N. H., June 8, 1842; son of Ambrose S. and Nancy B. Brackett. He was prepared for college at Colby academy. New London, N. H., entered Harvard in 1861, where he was elected class orator, and was graduated with honors in 1865. He entered the law course at Harvard, and in 1868 was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar. In 1871 and again in 1882 he was president of the Mercantile library