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appointed by President Clnint as counsel on the part of the government in the prosecution of the " whisky frauds." In 1878 he was chosen presi- dent of the American bar association, which met at Saratoga, N. Y. In 188.2 he was elected a rep- resentative to the 48th Congress as a Democrat, and in 188.j was apjxiinted by the government as special agent to make preliminary search of the record of the French archives in the matter of the French sjx)liation claims, making his report in Octol)er, 1885. He was U.S. minister to Switzerland, 1893-'97. and on his return he took up the practice of his profession. He died in St. Louis. Mo., Aug. 7. 18!>8.

BROADUS, John Albert, educator, was born m Culjieper county, Va., Jan. 2-i. 1827: son of a prominent member of the Virginia legislature. He was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1846, and was appointed assistant professor of ancient languages in that institution in 1851, holding tiae position for two years. In 1851 he entered the ministry, and for the follow- ing four years preached in the Baptist church at Charlottesville, Va. He resigned his pastorate to accept the chaplaincy of the university, and after two years returned to his church. In 1859 he was elected to the chair of New Testa- ment interpretation and homiletics at the Southern Baptist theological seminary, and subsequently was for several years president of that institution. In 1863 he preached as mis- sionary in General Lee's army of northern Vir- ginia. Among his published writings are: " The Preparation and Delivery of Sermons " (1870) ; " Recollections of Travel " (1872-'73) ; " Lectures on the History of Preaching" (1877); "Three Questions as to the Bible " (1884); " Commentary on Matthew " (1886), and "Sermons and Ad- dresses " (1886). He was a member of the inter- national Sunday-school lesson committee. He died at LouLsville, Ky., March 16, 1895.

BROCK, Sidney G., statLstician, was born at Cleveland, Ohio, April 10, 1837. He received his elementary education in the public schools of Cleveland, and was graduated at Allegheny col- lege in 1859, receiving the degree of Ph.D. in 1889. He was admitted to the bar in Cleveland in 1861, and in Octol)er of that year he entered the Union service in the 67th Ohio volunteers. He was succes-sively promoted to be captain and major, and remained in the service until the close of the civil war, taking part in twenty-one en- gagements, and being twice wounded. In 1865 he returned to the practice of the law, making his home at Macon, Mo., where he became editor and proprietor of the Macon Republican. He wa.s mayor of the city of Macon for three terms, in 1&S4 was presidential elector on the Republican ticket, and in 1888 a candidate for rep-

resentative in Congress. From 1889-'93. he was cliief of the bureau of statistics in the U.S. treas- ury department. As a contributor to the journals of America and England on economic questions, his writings received favorable consideration. "While statistician of the treasury department he issued a number of valuable reports, including: " Commerce of the United States with the Coim- tries of North and South America," " Historj- of the Commerce of the United States with the Hawaiian Islands, " "The Internal Commerce of the Pacific Slope," " The Commerce of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River and its tribu- taries," "The Immigration movement to the United States from 1792 to 1892," " Historv" of Wool and Woolen Manufacture in the United States." He aLso edited the ciirrent reports of the bureau of statistics, such as " Commerce and Navigation," " Statistical Abstract," " Inter- nal Commerce."

BROCKETT, Linus Pierpont, author, was born at Canton, Conn., Oct. 16. 1820. He studied at Brown university, and then entered Yale medical college, where he was graduated asM.D. in 1843. In 1844 and 1845 he was professor of physiology and anatomy at Georgetown college, Ky. Compelled by failing health to give up the practice of medicine, he devoted himself to litera- ture, and engaged in the publishing business in Hartford, Conn., from 1847 to 1858. In 1854 he was appointed a commissioner to investigate idiocy in Connecticut, and finished his report in 1856. He wrote a study in chmrch history, entitled, "The Bogomile." and epitomized the history of the Bassein Karen mission with enthu- siastic appreciation of the spirit of sacrifice mani fested in that field. He was editor at different periods of the Brooklyn Monthly, and the Brook- lyn Advance, and contributed largely to cyclo- paedias and periodicals. He published over forty works on historical, religious and other subjects, among which are: "Geographical History of New Y'ork " (1847); "Pioneer Preacher" (1856); " Hi.story of Education" (18.59); "Eighty Y'ears' Progress of the United States " (1861);'" Life of Lincoln " (1865); " His- tory of the Civil War " (1866); " Woman's Work in the Civil War" (1867); "Men of Our Day," "Our Great Captains " (1868) ; "Woman: Her Rigiits, Wrongs, Privileges, and Responsibilities " (1869); "The Y'ear of Battles" (1871); "Epi- demic and Contagious Diseases" (1873); "Una and her Paupers" (1874); "Our Countrv-'s Wealth and Influence" (1881); "Our Western Empire" (1881-'82); "Descriptive America" (1884-'85);and " The Great Metropolis " (1888). Amherst college conferred on liim the honorary degree of A.M. in 1857. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 13, 1893.