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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (BococK BRENTANO.) 



mon Council of New Haven a member of the Board 

 of Supervisors in 1872, and by the Mayor, a member 

 of the Board of Fire Commissioners in 1874. In 1875 

 he was elected to the State Legislature ; in 1878 he 

 became Mayor of the city ; and in 1880 Governor of 

 the State. For many years he was engaged almost 

 exclusively in the manufacture of steam boilers. 



Booock, Thomas S >( lawyer, born in Buckingham 

 County, Va., in 1815; died in Appomattox County, 

 Va., Aug. 5, 1891. He was graduated at Hainpdeu- 

 Sidney College, studied law, was attorney for Ap- 

 pomattox County in 1845-'46, and was a member of 

 the Virginia House of Delegates for several years. 

 In 1846 he was elected to Congress, where he sat by 

 successive re-elections till Virginia adopted the or- 

 dinance of secession, when he resigned. In 1861 he 

 was elected to the Confederate Congress, and on Feb. 

 18, 1862, he was chosen Speaker ot the House. For 

 many years prior to his death he lived in retirement, 

 a victim of paralysis. 



Botta, Anna Charlotte Lynch, author, born in Ben- 

 nington, Vt, Nov. 11, 181a; died in New York city, 

 March 23, 1891. She was educated in Albany, N. \.,- 

 lived several years in Providence, R. I., where^she 

 began her literary career; removed to New York 

 city about 1842; and 

 married Vincenzo Bot- 

 ta, then Professor of 

 Italian Language and 

 Literature in the Uni- 

 versity of the City of 

 Nevv "York, in 1855. 

 From the time of her 

 marriage till her death 

 her house was the cen- 

 ter of a literary circle. 

 During the Franco- 

 German War, in 1870- 

 '71, she prepared an 

 album of autographs, 

 photographs, and orig- 

 inal sketches by fam- 

 ous artists in her pos- 

 session as a contribu- 

 tion to the fund for the relief of the suit'ering women 

 and children in Paris. This album sold for 5,000, and, 

 as the war closed before the fund was completed, the 

 money was given to the French Academy as the basis 

 of a fund to provide a prize for the best essay by a 

 woman on " The Condition of Women," to be awarded 

 every five years. In the award of 1888 the Academy 

 voted the medal of honor to the Queen of Roumania, 

 for her " Pensees d'une Reine," and voted $500 each 

 to Mine. Arvede Baride and Mine. Anas Segalas. 

 Mrs Botta's literary work comprised " The Rhode 

 Island Book" (Providence, 1841); a collection of 

 poems, illustrated by Brown. Darley, Durand, Ilunt- 

 mgton, and other artists (New York, 1848; revised 

 ed., 1884); and " A Hand-book of Universal Litera- 

 ture " (New York, I860). She also published " Leaves 

 from the Diary of a Recluse" in " The Gift" (1845). 

 Her poems " Paul at Athens," " Webster," "Books," 

 and " Wasted Fountains" are among her best. She 

 published many essays, reviews, and criticisms, was 

 a sculptor of much merit, and promoted the establish- 

 ment of Barnard College for women. 



Brady, John Biker, jurist, born in New York city in 

 )822; died there, March 16, 1891. He was a son of 

 Thomas S. Brady, a lawyer, but better known as an 

 educator, and a brother o"f James T. Brady, for many 

 years the leader of the bar of New York. He studied 

 law, was admitted to the bar in 1844, and practiced 

 first in his father's office and afterward in partner- 

 ship with his brother. In 1856 he was elected a 

 justice of the New York Court of Common Pleas; in 

 1869 he was promoted to the bench of the Supreme 

 Court of the State; and in 1877, when his term was 

 expiring, he was honored by a unanimous re-election, 

 each political party nominating him. He had occu- 

 pied the judicial bench for thirty-five years continu- 

 ously. Judge Brady was a man of much eloquence 



and wit, and for many years was the most popular 

 after-dinner speaker in the State. At midnight of 

 the day on which President Garfield was shot, and 

 before the extent of his iniuries was known, Judge 

 Brady administered the oath of the presidential otfiee 

 to Vice-President Arthur in New York. 



Bragg, Walter L., lawyer, born in Lowndes County, 

 Ala., Feb. 25, 1838; died in Spring Lakej N. J., Aug. 

 21, 1891. He was graduated at Harvard in 1858, arid 

 settled in Camden, Ark., to practice law. He served 

 in the Confederate army through the civil war, 

 chiefly with the Army of Tennessee, and attained 

 the rank of captain. After the close of the war he 

 settled in Marion, Ala., and resumed the practice of 

 law, removing in 1871 to Montgomery. In 1874-'77 

 he was chairman of the Democratic Lxecutive Com- 

 mittee of Alabama; in 1876 he was a delegate to the 

 National Democratic Convention at St. Louis, where 

 he wa-> appointed a member of the National Commit- 

 tee for his State; in 1880 he was the presidential 

 electpr-at-large of Alabama; in 1881 was elected 

 President of the Alabama Railroad Commission by 

 the Legislature; in 1887 was appointed a member of 

 the new Interstate Commerce Commission ; and in 

 1889 he was reappointed. He was also first President 

 of the Alabama State Bar Association. 



Breokinridge, Samuel Miller, jurist, born in Baltimore, 

 Md., Nov. 3, 1828; died in Detroit, Mich., May 28, 

 1891. He was educated in the College of New Jersey 

 and in Center College, Kentucky; was graduated in 

 the Law School of Transylvania University, at Lex- 

 ington, Ky. ; and in 1850 made his permanent home 

 in St. Louis, Mo. He was a member of the State 

 Legislature in 1854 and 1855, was elected judge of the 

 Circuit Court of Missouri in 1859, and was a strong 

 Union man throughout the civil war and the particu- 

 larly trying period of conflict within his State. After 

 the war he was influential in the counsels of the Re- 

 publican party, but would accept no political otfiee. 

 Judge Breckinridge was probably most widely known 

 from his connection with the Presbyterian Church, 

 lie was chosen an elder in the Second Presbyterian 

 Church in St. Louis in 1871; was appointed a mem- 

 ber of the General Assembly's committee on internal 

 relations to meet a similar committee of the Presby- 

 terian Church in America, in 1873; was a member of 

 the General Assembly that met in St. Louis in 1875; 

 and was a member of the General Assembly's com- 

 mittee on the revision of the "Book of Discipline" 

 from 1878 till the final report in 1882. He was ulso a 

 member of the General Assemblies of 1881 at Buf- 

 falo, 1882 at Springfield, 111., 18S3 at Saratoga, and 

 1891 at Detroit. In the latter body he was conspicu- 

 ous in his support of the report of President Patton's 

 committee against the Rev. Charles A. Briggs, D. D. 

 On May 28 he was urged by many delegates to make 

 a formal announcement of his legal views on the con- 

 troversy, as he was known to have studied the question 

 close.ly. After a long and lucid speech, he began con- 

 cluding with " I feel that I have discharged my duty 

 faith fully, and I ask you to excuse me from further ' 

 when he fell to the floor and expired. 



Bientano, Lorenzo, lawyer, born in Manheim, Baden, 

 Germany, Nov. 4, 1813; died in Chicago, 111., Sept. 

 18, 1891. After receiving a classical education, no 

 studied jurisprudence at the universities of Heidel- 

 berg and Freiburg, and was graduated with the de- 

 gree of LL. D. lie settled in Berlin to practice, and 

 one of his noted cases was the state trial of Herr von 

 Struve for high treason, in which lie was the leading 

 counsel for the defense. On attaining the legal age 

 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, where he 

 allied himself with the Liberal or Opposition party. 

 In 1848 he was elected to the Frankfort Parliament, 

 and in the following year, on the flight of the Grand 

 Duke of Baden in consequence of the revolution, he 

 was chosen President of the Provisional Republican 

 -Government. The defeat of. the revolutionary army 

 was followed by a sentence to imprisonment for life 

 pronounced against Mr. Brcntano and other leaders. 

 But he had fled to the United States, where he settled 



