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 HKAINARD.

BRAINERD.

erly point of tlie glol>e ever reached b.v man up to that time (ISSO). They discovered the vast inlet, wlucli was named by them " Crreely Fiord."" Th? sufferings of the party at Camp Sabine were indescril»able. An unusiuvUy severe winter set in and they were obliged to construct a camp out of stones, snow, canvas and the remains of an old Ixxit. Their Ukm.\ supply gave out and the remnant of the party that was rescued by Captain Schley, in June. 1884, was only kept alive by the efforts of Brainard. who i>laced nets under the ice. and thus contrived to catch a small quantity of tish each day. "When the rescuers arrived, Lockwood had been dead seventy-three days, and Brainard and his few surviving companions were just about to succumb. Sergeant Brainard kept account of the food supplies during this try- ing time of privation, and Lieutenant (ireely has made especial mention of his heroism in this connection: *' I firmly believe,"' wrote he, "that not one ounce of unauthorized food passed his lips during all tliat terrible winter. That a starv- ing man for months could daily handle such amounts of food and not take for himself speaks volumes for liis courage. "' He was commissioned 2d lieutenant Oct. 22. 1886, and assigned to the 2d cavalry; 1st lieutenant. Aug. 14, 1898; captain, Oct. 14, 189b, and assigned to the commissary department. He became chief conimissarj' in the subsistence department and lieutenant-colonel of volunteers, May 9. 1898: colonel. Nov. 8. 1898; major, Feb. 14, 1900. and became purcha.sing com- mi«ary at the Army buiMiny. Xew York city.

BRAINARD, John Gardiner Calkins, poet, was Iwirn at New Lomlon. Conn., Oct. 21, 1796; son of Jeremiah G. Brainard, judge of the Con- necticut supreme court. He was graduated from Yale college in 1815, and entered the law office of his brother, William L. Brainard. In 1819 he was admitted to the bar, and opened a law office at Middletown, Conn., but was unsuc- cessful in practice, and in February, 1822, he be- came editor of the Connecticut Mirror in Hart- ford. In the columns of tliis paper he published many of his early poems, but while the literary tone of the journal was of a high order, treat- ment of current topics in his editorial column was hasty and weak. He resigned his position in 1827. and resided for a time on Long Island. His publications are: " Occasional Pieces of Poetry " (182.'i), and "Literary Remains of Jolm G. C. Brainard," with a sketch of his life, by J. G. Whittier nH32, :W ed.. 1846). He died in New Ix.ndon. Conn.. Sept. 26. 1828.

BRAINE, Daniel Lawrence, naval officer, was born in New York city. May 18, 1829. He was e«lucate<l in the New York public schools and in the Newburg seminary, and in 1846 was appointed milshi^man from the state of Texas. During

the Mexican war he was attaclied to the home squadron, and was in the naval engagements at Alvarado, Tabasco, Tuspan, Laguna, Tampico, and Vera Cruz. In 1 849-' 50 he was attached to the Pacific squadron; in 1851-*52 he studied at the naval academy ; from 1852 to 1855 was on a cruise on the ilediterranean, and from 1858 to 1860 was engaged in the suppression of the slave trade on the west coast of Africa. He was appointed com- mander of the Monticello, when, in April, 1861, she was fitted out b}^ the New York union defence committee and .sent to provision Fort Monroe and blockade the Virginia ports. The MonticeUo, a month later, participated in the first naval en- gagement of the war at Sewall's Point, and soon afterwards led successful attacks on Forts Hat- teras and Clark. In 1862 he was commissioned lieutenant commander, and was in command of the Pequot in the expeditions against Fort Fisher, Fort Anderson, and the Cape Fear river forts. His " cool performance of dutj^ " in these engage- ments won the commendation of Rear- Admiral Porter, at whose suggestion he was promoted commander in 1866. Until 1868 he was on duty in the New York navy yard ; during 1868-"69 he commanded the Sliamokin, and from 1869 to 1873 he was in charge of the equij^ment department of the Brooklyn navy yard. In 1873 he commanded the Juniata, one of the vessels in the fleet sent in search of the Polaris expedition, and later in the same year he secured the release of the one hun- dred and two Virginius prisoners confined at Santiago de Cuba. He won promotion in 1874 and 1885, and in 1886 he reached the rank of rear- admiral he commanded the South Atlantic squad- ron, 1886-"89, and the Brooklyn navy yard, 1889- '91. He was retired in 1891 and died in Brooklyn N.Y., Jan. 30, 1W98.

BRAINERD, Cephas, lawyer, was born at Had- dam, Conn., Sept. 8, 1831. He is a descendant of Daniel Brainerd who was one of the original settlers of that town in 1668. In 1853 he began the study of the law in New York under William E. Curtis, subse(iuently chief justice of the suj^e- rior court, and two years later was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of his profession in that city. In 1861 he was apiwinted by President Lincoln arbitrator of the mixed court, for the suppression of the slave trade. While acting in this capacity he became a close .student of international law, and subsequently joined the Society for the codification of inter- national law, wliose lieadquarters were in Lon- don. For about ten years he delivered lectures on that brancli, in the law department of tlie uni- versity of the city of New York. He participated from the beginning, in the ten years' struggle be- fore the judiciary committee of the house of rep- resentatives, between the uninsured shipowners