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entered the L'nion army as lieutenant and regi- mental quartermaster of the U4th Ohio volunteer infantry, lie wjis promoted t-) the rank of colonel, June, 1865, and made inspector of the qujirtermaster's deimrtment, Washington, D. C, until November, when lie was ordered to Cincin- nati as chief quartermaster of that department. He was mustered out of the army, Oct. 1, 1865. In September. 1866, he was brevetted brigadier- genonil of volunteers and declined a commission in the re.irular army. He is the author of the the quartermaster's deixirtment. In 1873, upon the organization of the Mansfield savings bank, lie became its vice-president. In 1878 he was ap- pointed a member of the Ohio board of state charities. He was made a member of the national conference of charities and correction, and in 1880 its president. He was vice-president of the national prison congress from its re-organi- zation, and was elected its president in 1893. He was one of the founders of the Mansfield lyceuni and library, of the Mansfield public park, of the isoldiers' and sailors' memorial library, and of the Ohio archaeological and historical society, which was organized under liis institution, and of which he became president in 1893. He was a Democrat in politics and in 1875 was associated with David A. "SVells. William Cullen Bryant, Prof. A. L. Perry, and other pioneers in tariff reform. He was ap- pointed by the government one of the delegates to represent the United States at the inter- national prison congress in Paris in 1895, where he was made the chairman of the American dele- gation. He spent several weeks in visiting prisons and reformatories in western Europe and the British islands, and on his return to America made a repcjrt of his observations and conclu.sions in regard to European methods, which was pub- lished by Congre.ss as an appendix to the report of the American delegation upon the Paris con- gress. He served as chairman of the board of state charities of Ohio from 1879, completing his seventh term in 1897.
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BRINKMAN, Mary A., physician, was born in Massjichu-setts in 1843, daughter of Alexander and I^iuritta (Lincoln) Clapp. Having acquired a common-.school education, .she vi.sited Europe, where she spent some time in .study, and after re- turning to the United States she entered the New York city medical college and hospital for women in 1871. She was graduated with valedictory honors in 1874, and her medical thesis was pub- lished in the Xorth American Journal of Homceo- pathy. She continued to take clinical instruction at the hospital and disjKjnsary for a year after re- ceiving her diploma, and in 1H75 was married to James G. Brinkman of New York city. In 1874 she was appointed lecturer on diseases of children

in the New York medical college and hospital for women, holding this iK)sition until 1881, when she accepted the chair of gyn;ecology in the .same in- stitution, an honor then first accorded to a woman. In 1889 illness comi)elled her to resign, and she became consulting physician to the hos- pital in gynaecology. In 1876 she was appointed physician to the New York dispensary for women and children, and later to the college disj^ensary. In 188'3 she was elected .secretary of the faculty of the New York medical college and hospital for women, which office she held for five years. Dr. Brinkman was a contributor to medical literature, a lecturer to working girls, and actively engaged in philanthroi>ic work, looking to the advancement of the cause of woman, to opening wider the avenues of her usefulness, and to giving medical service to such as were unable ti) pay for it. She was the first woman elected to the vice-presidency of the New York State homoe- opathic medical society.

BRINLEV, George, book-collector, was born in Boston, Mass., May 15, 1817. He was a man of wealth and cultivated tastes, and devoted his time to collecting valuable books. His library at Hartford, Conn., contained about twelve thou- sand rare volumes, and was third in rank in the value of its collection of Americana in the United States. He bequeathed to various American col- leges from this collection volumes valued at over twenty-five thousand dollars. Yale college con- ferred upon him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1868. He died in Bermuda. May 14. 1875.

BRINTON, Daniel Garrison, ethnologist, was born in Chester county. Pa.. May 13, 1837. He was graduated from Yale in 1858, and from Jef- ferson medical college in 1861. He then passed a year in study and travel in Europe, entered the army in 1862, as assistant surgeon, and was commissioned surgeon in February, 1863, serving as surgeon-in-chief of the 2d division, 2d corps. He was at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and was appointed medical director of the corps October, 1863. He received a sunstroke about this time, which made it impossible for him to re- sume active service in the field, and he therefore accepted the position of superintendent of the army hospitals at Quincy and Springfield, 111. He was honorably discharged in August, 1865, with the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel. He took up his residence in Philadelphia, and assumed the editorship of the Medical and Surgical Re- jwrter, and of the Coinpendiu m of Medical Science. He was a diligent student of American ethnology, gathering during his winter visits in Florida imiterial used in his books. He was ap- IK)inted professor of ethnology and archaeology in the Academy of natural sciences in Philadelphia in 1884, and professor of American linguistics and