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the national IVniocratii- coniinittee. and on the de^ith of William U. Biirnuui was luianimously elected chairman of the committee. In Janmii y. 1890. he was elected to the U. S. senate from Ohio, to succeed Senator Henry B. Payne, whose term expired March 3, l»yi. He was re-elected, and uiM»n the expiration of his term of office in is«>7 was succeeded by Joseph B. Foraker. He w;us chairman of the racitic railroad committee, memlH'rof the committee on appropriations, in- terstat*; commerce. i)ensions, irrigation, public buildings and gromids. and member of the select committee on district corporations. Maine state college gave liim the degree of LL. D. in 1893, He died in Xew York city. Dec. 15. 1898.

BRICHER, Alfred Thompson, artist, was born at Port.smouth, N. 11., April 10, 18:59. When only an infant his family removed to Newburyixjrt, Mass.. where he studied the English branches at the ac;uiemy. When quite young he removed to Boston, where he engaged as a clerk in a dry- goods store, but de- voting his leisure time to unassisted essays in painting and to studies in drawing at the Lowell institute of that city. At twenty years of age he opened a stu- dio in Newburyport. His first order for a painting was from Caleb Gushing, the picture afterwards coming into the pos-

^ . Y^'^.U^^u^ ^""""^^ of Harriet Pres- cott Spofford, who had been a school-mate of the artist. He opened a studio in Boston early in the civil war, and soon made a reputation by his paintings of autumn scenery, which were extensively reproduced by Prang and others. In 1868 he removed his studio to New York city, and turned his attention to marine painting, in which specialty he contin- ued, pro<Jucing only an occasional landscape. In 1879 he was elected an associate of the National academy of design, and in 1874 a mem- ber of the American water color society. His marine water colors became famous, and to be near the sea, in 1882 he built a cottage and stulio at Southampton, N. Y. He afterwards built a more permanent residence at New Dorp, Staten Island, N. Y., which became a favorite gathering place for marine painters and literary men. His better known works are: " Sunset in October." " St. Michaels Mount," " Off Halifax Harbor," "On the ^sopus," "A Lift in the Fog." "What the Tide Left," "Low Tide at Nahant."

BRICK, Abraham Lincoln, representative, was born in Warren. Ind., May 27, 1860. He was educated at Gorneil and Yale and was graduated at the University of Michigan LL.B. 1883, He engageil in the practice of law at South Bend, Ind., in 1883 : became prosecuting attorney of St. Joseph and La Porte counties in 1886 ; was a mem- ber of the Repnl)lican state central convention in 1890 and a delegate to the Republican national convention at St. Louis in 1896. He was a mem- ber of the law faculty of the University of Notre- Dame, which gave him the degree LL.M. in 1898. He was elected a representative in the o6th, o7th and .58th congresses.

BRICKELL, William D., journalist, was born at Steul)envillt', Ohio. Nov. 19, 18r)2 ; son of David Z. Brickell. He was graduated at the Western university of Pennsylvania in 1873; acquired the details of newspaper work in the office of the Pittsburgh Pout, and in 1876 purchased the Dia- patcli at Columbus, Ohio. He was married July 25. 1SS!7. to Cora Ross.

BRIDGE, Horatio, naval officer, was born in Augusta, Me.. April 8, 1806. He was graduated at Bowdoin in 1825 ; studied at the Northampton law school and was admitted to the bar in 1828. He practiced in Skowhegan and Augusta, Me., 1828-38 ; became purser in the U.S. navy in 1838 ; served on the Ci/one in the Mediterranean 1838-"41, and later in African waters. Upon his return he gave his notes of the voyage to Nathaniel Haw- thorne to be edited. The work was i)ublished in 1845. under the title, " The Journal of an African Cruiser." and its authorship is usually attributed to Hawthorne. Duty in the Me- diterranean and on the African coast oc- cupied the years 1846-"48, and was followed by an interval at the Portsmouth navy j'ard, 1849-'51. In 1851 he was ordered to the Pacific squadron, but while on his first cruise in the Portsmouth, he was recalled and a.ssigned to duty as chief of the bureau of provisions and clothing. He resigned in 1869. and was ap- pointed chief inspector of provisions and clothing, a position w^hich he held until 1873, when he was retired with the rank of commodore. He is the author of " Personal Reminiscences of Nathaniel Hawthorne," published in 1893. He died at Athens, Pa., March 20. 1893.

BRIDGE, Samuel James, i)hilanthropist, was born at Dre.sden, Me., June 1, 1809. He was a direct descendant of John Bridge, who was super- visor of the first public school in the colony, located at Cambridge, and who seconded John Harvard in founding Harvard college. He entered business as a conmiission merchant in Boston, and in 1841 was apjiointed custom-liouse appraiser of the port of Boston, which position he held for twelve years. In 1853 he removed