OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (BROWNE BUCHTEX.) 



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April, 1861 ; was appointed 2d lieutenant in the 1st 

 ! States Dragoons on the '.yah 'if tin* same 

 ni.'iitli; was promoted captain Mh I'nitcd States 

 Cavalry Aug. f> ; transferred tn tin- nth Cavalry S.-pt. 

 8; promoted inaj'ir - -!d Cavalry .Jan. 1, Isr.s, 

 lieutenant-colonel ;nh Cavalry .lime 6, 1885, and 

 colonel 1st Cavalry, Aug. 20. 1889; ami wits trans 

 fcrivd to the 8th Cuvulry, April 22, is'.M. In tin; 

 volunteer army lie was commissioned colonel of the 

 Mli t'nited States Colored Cavalry, March 1, l^i-J; 

 was bivvcttcd maior-general for meritorious seiViees 

 during tlu- war, March l::, lsi;.">; was promoted brig- 

 . iu ral May 1, 1865; and was mustered out of 

 tli.' vi.lmitr.T service Jan. 15, 1806. During the war 

 In- was brevetted major for gallantry at Beverly 

 FI ml. V a., June 9, 1868 : lieutenant-colonel for Marion, 

 Trim.. IV.'. 19,1864; brigadier-general of volunteers, 

 ]>'. 12, 1864; and colonel United States army, 

 Maivh 13, 1865. For several years l>et'<>rc his death 

 he was a frequent contributor of far Western letters to 

 newspapers and magazines. 



Browne, Thomas Haynes Bayly, lawyer, born at Ac- 

 comaek Courthouse, Va,, in 1844; died there, Aug. 

 19, 1892. He was educated at Hanover and Bloom- 

 field Academies in V irginia, and left the latter insti- 

 tution in May } 1861, to enter the Confederate service 

 as a private' in the 39th Virginia Infantry. Subse- 

 quently he served in Chew's Battery of the Stewart 

 Unrse Artillery, and was surrendered with the Army 

 of Northern Virginia in April, 1865. In 1867 he was 

 graduated ut the law department of the University of 

 Virginia; in 1873 was elected commonwealth at- 

 torney for Aeeomuck County; in 1884 was a Repub- 

 lican presidential elector- in 1886 was elected toCon- 

 irn ss from the 1st Virginia District as a Republican ; 

 in 1888 was re-elected ; and in 1890 -was defeated. 

 During his last term in Congress he served on the 

 committees on ('< mineree, on Pensions, and on Ex- 

 penditures in the Navy Department. 



Brace, David, inventor, born in Scotland, in 1802; 

 died in Brooklvn, N. Y., Sept. 13, 1892. When he was 

 six years old he came to the United States with his 

 parents and settled in New York city, where his father 

 established a press room in 1815. Mr. Bruce received 

 a private-school education, and was apprenticed to the 

 printer's trade. At that time the making of type was 

 done wholly by hand, and the most rapid workman 

 could not produce more than 15 a minute. Mr. Bruce 

 conceived the idea of making typo by machinery, and 

 applied all his leisure to experimenting. In 1888 he 

 secured several patents, covering a type-casting ma- 

 chine lie had made, which by hand power would 

 make 80 or 90 type a minute. He sold his patent 

 rights in Boston, after fully demonstrating the practi- 

 cal working of his machine. While this machine was 

 fur in advance of the usual method of making type, 

 it was not wholly satisfactory to him, and he accord- 

 inglv resumed experimenting till he had perfected a 

 machine to be run by steam power, which turned out 

 about 140 type a minute. Mr. Bruce always claimed 

 that he had been defrauded of his rights in his steam 

 type-casting invention. About 1850, he established a 



r foundry in Brooklyn, and he was engaged in 

 business (luring the remainder of his active life. 

 Brash, Christine Chaplin, author, born in Providence, 

 R. I., in May, 1842; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. :i, 

 1892. She was a daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah 

 Chaplin, D. D., a writer of religious works, and of 

 Jane Dunlmr, a writer of numerous Sunday-school 

 books, and the wife of the Rev. Alfred if. Brush. 

 . era! years prior to lsc,7 she taught drawing in 

 the State Normal School at FramiiiL'ham, Mass., and 

 afterward she applied herself to water-color paintiiiL', 

 chiefly of wild Mowers, in which she attained large 

 success, many of her flower pictures, including a 

 well-known one of nasturtiums, having been repro- 

 duced and published by L. Prang <fe Co. In 1877 she 

 studied painting in Paris, and in 1878 she wasmarricd. 

 In 1879 she published in the u No Name Series " the 

 u Colonel's Opera Cloak," which has since been re- 

 published under her own name. Afterward she pub- 



lished the stories " Inside Our Gate " and " One 8am- 



'.- in Perspective," and the |ICNM "The 



Inland Country" in the "Atlantic Monthly" and 

 " My June Hoy " in " Harper's Magazine." 



Bryson, Andrew, naval ollieer, born in NYw York 

 city. July W< lvj-_'; died in Wash'tnirt'-n. I'. <'.. Feb. 

 7, 1898. lie was appointed a mi'Uhipman in the 

 United States navy, Dec. 1, 1837; was promoted 

 passed midshipman, June _".. 1843; master, Jan. 80, 

 1881 ; lieutenant, Aug. :i>. Is.'d ; commander, July 16, 

 Is'i-j; captain, July -jr., Isf.f, ; commodore, Feb. 14, 

 1878; and rear-admiral, Mardi -^>. IHM>; and wan re- 

 tired Jan. 80, 1883. During his naval i ireer he was on 

 sea s. i \ ice twenty-four years, seven months; onshore 

 or other duty, twelve years; and was unemployed 

 eighteen years. Durinir the civil war he commanded 

 the steamer "Chippewa" on special service. 1" 

 the ironclad " Lehigh" of the South Atlantic Blockad- 

 ing Squadron, 1863; and the ironclad " Essex" in the 

 Mississippi Squadron, 1864-'65. He. took purlin the 

 reduction of 1-ort Macon and the principal actions ott 

 Charleston, 1863-'64, during which he received a 

 severe wound from a shell. His last service prior to 

 retirement was as commander of the South Atlantic 

 Squadron. 



Bnohtel, John Richards, philanthropist, born in (m-ene 

 Township, Summit County, Ohio, Jan. 18, 1822; died 

 in Akron, Ohio, May 23, 1892. The early part of his 

 life was spent in farming, and he acquired the old 

 Thornton farm, on which a portion of the city of 

 Akron was built. On withdrawing from fanning he 

 entered the employment of a firm in Canton, Ohio, 

 manufacturing reapers and mowers. In 1856, when 

 the firm's manufactory was burned and an assignment 

 was made in consequence, his personal enterprise re- 

 stored the firm's prosperity, and he induced it to es- 

 tablish a branch iactory in" Akron, of which he was for 

 many years president. Having given much time and 

 study to the material development of that city, he 

 undertook the development of the coal and iron re- 

 sources of the Hocking valley, and among the suc- 

 cesses of this enterprise was a thrifty village bearing 

 his name. He continued in the active management 

 of his various interests till 1887, when he was stricken 

 with paralvsis, from which ho never recovered. Mr. 

 Buchtel will long bo remembered for his munificence 

 in the cause of education. In 1870 he made possible 

 the organization of a college by giving $6,000 toward 

 a building fund and $25,000 toward an endowment 

 fund. To secure the location of the institution, citi- 

 zens of Akron raised a further sum of $60,000, and on 

 July 4, 1871, Horace Greeley laid the corner stone or 

 the. institution, then known as " The Universalist 

 Centenary School of Ohio." In 1874 he founded the 

 chair of Physics and Chemistrv in the name of hia 

 wife, with a gift of $20,000; between 1874 and 1879 he 

 added about $25,000 ; in 1879 he gave $-25,112 toward 

 the extinction of a debt of the institution; b 

 1879 and 1881 ho contributed $24,7 1'> i.i varioussums; 

 in 1881 he gave the college property valued at about 

 $64,000 ; in 1883 he celebrated founder's day by a 

 irifr of $100,000, supplementing this the same year 

 with a gift of lands valued at $2,000; and on com- 

 mencement day, 1887, he gave $100,000 and all his 

 life-insurance policies, amounting to $74,400. In his 

 will he made the college, to which his own name had 

 been given, his sole legatee. One of the most inter- 

 e.-tinir incidents in his career occurred on Juno 

 23, 1887, in connection with the fifteenth annual com- 

 mencement of the colleire. Three months previously 

 ho had been stricken with paralysis. So eager was ho 

 to attend the commencement exercises that he offered 

 the students $1,000 in cash, to be applied to the con- 

 struction of their gymnasium, if they would take him 

 to the college chapel, in the fifth story of the building, 

 on commencement day. The offer was accepted, and 

 the college corps of cadets, in uniform, marched to hi* 

 . carried nim in an invalid's chair to a vehicle 

 c\pivssly prepared for the occasion, drove him to the 

 oofiege budding, and then took turns in carrying him 

 up the long flights of stairs. 



