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 BRANTLEY.

BR AW LEY.

Indian name is interpreted Two-sticks-of-wood bouMd-txgetlitr. denoting " the strong." He fought in the battle of Lake George. 17.55 ; served under Sir William Johnson in the Niagara cam- paign 17.")9. and attended the Moor charity school at LeUmon. Conn. He participated in the Pon- tiac war in ITtJ:]; married the daughter of an Oneida chief and settled at Canajoharie. where he eng.igeil in tr.inslating portions of the Bible into Mohawk anil acted .-vs secretary to Guy Johnson, superintendent of Indian affairs. He served at the head of two hundred and twenty braves against the French in Canada, and accompanied Colonel Johnson to England in November 177.5, where he set the grievances of the Six Nations before Lord George Germain in March, 177G. He joined the expedition of General St. Leger against Fort Stanwix in 1777 ; almost destroyed the party under General Herkimer at the battle of Oriskany, Aug. 6. 1777 : accompanied the expedition from Fort Niagara against General Sullivan in 1779, and in 17S0, cajitured General Harper and his command. After peace was declared in 1783 the Mohawks went to Canada to arrange for a settlement, and in 178.J he went to England, where he obtained reimbursements for his tribe for losses sustained in helping the British cause, and also contribu- tions towards an Episcopal church. He returned in 1786 : defeated General St. Clair in Western Ohio, thus putting an end to the war between the Indians and theUnited States. He was presented to Wasliingt<tn in 1792. He translated the gospel of St. Mark into the Mohawk language at)d as- sisted Col. Daniel Clans in translating the "Book of Common Prayer."' His statue was unveiled at Brantford, Ontario, Oct. 1-3, 1886. He died Nov. ?4. 1807.

BRANTLEY, NYilliam Gordon, representative, was born at B.a.ksb.ar. Ga.. Sept. 18, I860. He was educated in the public schools ; attended the University of Georgia two years ; studied law and w;ls admitted to the bar in 1881. He was a re- presentative in the Georgia legislature, 18S-1->'.") ; a state senator, 1886-"87, and solicitor general of the Brunswick circuit, 1888-'96. He removed to Brunswick in 1889, and was elected a Democrntic representative in the 5.5th, .56th. .57th and .58th con- gresses from the 11th Georgi-a district 1^97-1905.

BRANTLY, William Theophllus, educator, was born in Chatham founty, N.C.. Jan. 23. 1787. He w;is graduated at South Carolina college, Columbia, in 1808 : was teacher and Baptist preacher in Camden, S.C, 1808-'09; rector of Richmond academy. Augusta, Ga., 1809-'ll ; pastor of the First Baptist church, Beaufort, S.C, 1811-'19 ; and pastor at Augusta, Ga., where he founded the First Baptist church. He again held the rectorship of Richmond academy, 1819-'26; succee.le.l the Rev. Dr. Holcombe at

the First Baptist church, Philadelphia, Pa., and continued there, 182G-'37 ; and was pastor of the First Baptist church and president of Charleston college, S.C, 1837-'45. He received the degree of D.D. from Brown in 1831. His sons — William Theophilus, Jr. (1818-62), A. B. Brown 1840, D.D. University of Georgia 18.54,' and John J., Charleston college 1840, LL.D. Mercer university 1891 — were half brothers and became Baptist preachers, editors and educators. He died in Augusta, (Ju., March 25, 1845.

BRASTOW, Lewis O., educator, was born at Brewer. Me., March 23, 1834. After his gradua- tion at Bowdoin in 1857, and at the Bangor theo- logical school, 18G0, he became the pastor of a church at St. Johnsbury, Vt. In 1873 he ac- cepted a call to Burlington, Vt., and the pastoral relation continued until 1885, when he became professor of homiletics in Y'ale theological sem- inary. He received the degree of D.D. from Bowdoin in 1880.

BRATTLE, William, loyalist, was born at Cambridge, Mass., about the year 1702; son of W^illiam Brattle, clergj^man. He was gradu- ated from Harvard in 1722, studied theology and preached for a time, after which he studied law and practised that profession. He was elected to the state legislature, and was also a member of the governor's council ; captain of the artillery in 1733; a medical practitioner, and major-general of militia. He was a loyalist, and when the British troops withdrew from Boston he repaired with them to Halifax, N. S., where he died in October, 1776.

BRAWLEY, William H., representative, was born at Chester, S. C, in 1841. He was gradu- ated from the South Carolina college in 1860, and at the breaking out of the war he entered the 6th regiment S. C. V. as a private. While serving in the ranks he lost an arm at the battle of Seven Pines, and was retired from military service. He then went to Europe, where he remained until December, 1865, when he returned to Chester, S. C, and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He was elected solicitor of the 6th circuit in 1868, was re-elected in 1872, and in 1874 he resigned this office and removed to Charleston, where he practised law. He was elected to the state legislature from Charleston county in 1882. His speeches on the railroad law and his appeal in 1886 in behalf of the sufferers from the Charleston earthquake were conceded to be the ablest argu- ments ever made in the South Carolina legis- lature. In 1890 he was elected as representa- tive from the first district to the 52d Con- gress. He was re-elected to the 53d Congress and resigned in 1894 to accept the judgeship of the United States court for the di.strict of South Carolina.