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and 1888. In 1880 he was nominated for Congress, 

 but was defeated by Dr. George W. Ladd, of 

 Bangor, by 855 votes. His opponent had carried 

 the previous election by nearly 3,000 majority, 

 and Mr. Boutelle was encouraged to be a candi- 

 date again in 1882. He was elected, and repre- 

 sented the 4th District of Maine continuously 

 from that time till December, 1900, when he re- 

 signed his seat, and by special enactment was 

 made (March 1, 1901) a captain on the retired list 

 of the navy in consideration of his services in 

 the civil war. He was the leading Republican on 

 the Committee on Naval Affairs in every Congress 

 from the Forty-eighth to the Fifty-seventh, and 

 five times served as its chairman. He drafted 

 and secured the passage of the measures that se- 

 cured the construction of the first three modern 

 battle-ships in the new navy, and the swift com- 

 merce destroyers Columbia and Minneapolis. He 

 insisted from the first on the thorough Americani- 

 zation of the navy in all its departments, and se- 

 cured the provision in all the appropriations that 

 the materials of American ships should be of 

 American manufacture. To this policy and to his 

 faith in the superiority of American ships from 

 American manufactures is largely due the perfec- 

 tion of the steel-armor plants and the building 

 up of the great gun factory in Washington, where 

 the most powerful and efficient ordnance in the 

 world is produced. Mr. Boutelle was a popular 

 and efficient speaker, and took an active part in 

 all questions that came before the House of Rep- 

 resentatives. In the Fifty-third Congress he 

 forced the Hawaiian question till the Cleveland 

 administration was forced to show its hand, and 

 in the Fifty-fourth Congress he voted alone 

 against the Venezuelan resolutions and the recog- 

 nition of Cuba. He voted against hastily rush- 

 ing into the war with Spain, but at the same time 

 labored to bring the navy into its most efficient 

 condition, and to him largely is due the prepared- 

 ness with which it finally entered upon the war 

 and the great victories that brought the struggle 

 to its speedy termination. 



Bradbury, James Ware, United States Sen- 

 ator, born in Parsonfield, Me., June 10, 1802; 

 died in Augusta, Me., Jan. 6, 1901. He attended 

 the public schools of Parsonfield, Saco, Limerick, 

 and Effingham and Gorham Academy, and then 

 entered the sophomore class of Bowdoin College 

 in 1822 and was graduated third in the famous 

 class of 1825, that included Longfellow and Haw- 

 thorne. After graduation he was principal of Hal- 

 lowell Academy one year, and then studied law. 

 He opened a school in Effingham, N. H., in 1829, 

 for the instruction of teachers, believed by some 

 to have been the first normal school in New Eng- 

 land. He began the practise of law in Augusta in 

 1830, and in 1833 went into partnership with 

 Horatio Bridge, and in 1853 began the association 

 with Gov. Lot M. Morrill that lasted for many 

 years. He was county attorney from 1834 till 

 1838, and for a time edited the Maine Patriot. 

 In 1844 he attended the National Democratic 

 Convention, and in the same year was president of 

 the electoral college of the State. In 1846 he was 

 elected to the United States Senate, and he served 

 his full term, but declined a renomination. He 

 served as chairman of the Committee on Printing 

 and of a select committee on the French spolia- 

 tion claims. 



Brewerton, George Douglas, soldier and au- 

 thor, born in Rhode Island, about 1820; died in 

 New York city, Jan. 31, 1901. He joined Stephen- 

 son's regiment of California Volunteers in 1846 

 as 2d lieutenant, became 2d lieutenant in the 1st 

 United States Infantry, May 22, 1847, and 1st 



lieutenant in June, l,Hf>0. In Is.V.^ | H . resigned. 

 He published The Automaton );c^in <' l'si>;i)j 

 The Automaton Company (1st,;;., ,,,,,( ] (,,. \ u ' 

 tornaton Battery (J8(>3), de\ i< : > I ruc- 



tion of military recruits, which WITH 

 sively in connection with the iv; <>}.. O j 



tactics. He was the author of several oi 

 including The War in Kansas: A lion; 

 the Border among New Homes and l\ 

 People (1856); Fitzpoodle at Newport (! 

 and Ida Lewis (1869). 



Brinker, Henry, born in Hanover, Tru^hi. 

 March 17, 1831; died in Rochester, N. Y., Sept. l.y 

 1901. He was educated in the common schools 

 of his native country, and in April, 1851, arrived 

 in New York and became clerk in a store. In 

 two years he had saved enough to embark inde- 

 pendently in the commission business, and two 

 years later established a ship-building business. 

 He built many boats, among others the steamboat 

 Henry Brinker, that was bought by the United 

 States Government and rendered good service dur- 

 ing the civil war. He enlisted in the 3d New York 

 Cavalry in 1855, passed through all the inter- 

 mediate grades, and served as major-general of 

 the National Guard on Gov. Tilden's staff, and 

 commanded the militia at the Hornellsville strike 

 of 1877. After 1871 he resided in Rochester. He 

 was interested in several railroads, was one of the 

 founders of the Germania Fire Insurance Com- 

 pany of New York, and was a director of the 

 Sun, St. Nicholas, and Amsterdam insurance 

 companies. In all he was president, vice-presi- 

 dent, or director of more than forty corpora- 

 tions at his death. Gen. Brinker had visited every 

 country of the world excepting China and Aus- 

 tralia. In 1868 he was a guest of Emperor Wil- 

 liam of Germany, and was for six weeks a special 

 officer on the staff of Gen. von Fogtzate. 



Brogden, Curtis Hooks, politician, born in 

 Wayne County, N. C., Dec. 6, 1816; died in Golds- 

 borough, N. C., Jan. 5, 1901. His early days were 

 spent on the farm and in attendance at the dis- 

 trict school. He studied law and was an active 

 member of the State militia, in which he attained 

 the rank of general. He was presiding judge of 

 the Wayne County court for several years. He 

 was elected to the Legislature in 1838, and served 

 continuously in one house or the other till 1856, 

 when he was elected Comptroller of the State and 

 by successive elections occupied that office from 

 Jan. 1, 1857, till Jan. 1, 1867. He was a Repub- 

 lican presidential elector in 1868, and was ap- 

 pointed collector of internal revenue in 1869, but 

 declined the office. He was again elected State 

 Senator in 1868 and 1870, and in 1872 became 

 Lieutenant-Governor. On the death of Gov. Cald- 

 well, in 1874, he succeeded to the office of Gov- 

 ernor, serving till 1877. In 1876 he was elected 

 to Congress as a Republican, and he served from 

 March, 1877, till March, 1879. He was again a 

 member of the Legislature in 1886. 



Brown, Charles Henry, physician, born in 

 New York city, June 18, 1856; died there, Oct. 15, 

 1901. He was graduated at New York University, 

 in the medical department, in 1879, receiving the 

 highest honors in his class. He practised in New 

 York city, and was at different times connected 

 with the New York Dispensary, the Post-Gradu- 

 ate and the Presbyterian Hospitals, and the out- 

 door work of Bellevue Hospital; and he was a 

 member of the County Medical Society and of the 

 Academy of Medicine. In 1889 he became manag- 

 ing editor, and later owner, of The Journal of 

 Nervous and Mental Diseases. By his ability and 

 energy he widened its scope and brought it to a 

 high standard of excellence as the recognized 



