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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (BROOMALL BROWN-SEQUARD.) 



1861; and lieutenant colonel Oct. 26 following; and 

 was retired Jan. 10, 1877, on reaching the age limit. 

 In the volunteer service he was bre vetted 1st lieu- 

 tenant for gallantry in the Seminole Indian war, Dec. 

 31, 1835 ; major, for Contreras and Churubusco, Aug. 

 "20, 1847 ; lieutenant colonel, for Molino del Key, Sept. 

 8 following ; and brigadier general, for meritorious 

 services during the civil war, March 13, Is6f>. Gen. 

 Brooks took part in the Utah expedition in 1855; was 

 on duty in Kansas in 1860-'61 ; had charge of a light 

 battery stationed in the Treasury Department in 

 Washington at President Lincoln's first inaugura- 

 tion: served in Forts Pickens and- Jefferson, in Flor- 

 ida, in 1861 and till March, 1862; was chief muster- 

 ing and pay officer for the State of Ohio in 1862-'63, 

 during which period he handled over $1,000,000; 

 commanded the 4th Artillery at Washington at the 

 time of Gen. Early's threatened attack on the city ; 

 commanded his regiment at Fort Mcllenry, Md., in 

 1866-'68 and 1869-72 ; and was in command of the 

 presidio at San Francisco, Cal., from 1872 till his 

 retirement. 



Broomall, John M., lawyer, born in Upper Chichester, 

 Delaware County, Pa., Jan. 19, 1816 ; died in Media, 

 Pa., June 3, 1894. lie received a common-school 

 education, studied law, and practiced it the greater 



fart of his life. lie was one of the most active of the 

 Vnnsylvania abolitionists, and an intimate associate 

 of Thaddeus Stevens. Prior to the civil war he- 

 served in the State Legislature. In 1860 he was a 

 member of the electoral college, and voted for Abra- 

 ham Lincoln, and in 1872, in the same capacity, he 

 voted for Gen. Grant. lie was elected to Congress 

 from the 7th Pennsylvania District, as a Eepublican, 

 in 1862, 1864, and 1866, and served on the Committees 

 on Public Expenditures and on Accounts. In 1873 

 he was a member of the State Constitutional Conven- 

 tion, in which he urged the abolition of capital pun- 

 ishment and the granting of the suffrage to women. 



Brown, Abel J., clergyman and author, born near 

 Lincolnton, N. C., March 27, 1817 ; died in Blount- 

 ville, Tenn., July 17, 1894. He received his classical 

 training in Emory and Henry College, Virginia. 

 After graduation he was engaged for a number of 

 years in teaching at first, as principal of Jefferson 

 Academy, Blountville, and afterward as professor in 

 Greenville College. In 1836 he was ordained to the 

 office of the ministry, and became pastor of Lutheran 

 congregations in North Carolina, serving also congre- 

 gations in South Carolina and Tennessee, covering a 

 large territory in his pastoral ministrations. In 1858 

 he became pastor of congregations in Tennessee, 

 where he spent the remainder of his life in the serv- 

 ice of the Lutheran Church. He was a frequent con- 

 tributor to the religious periodicals of the Church 

 and to literary magazines ; and in addition to this he 

 published a number of sermons in pamphlet form. 

 Roanoke College, in 1873, conferred on him the de- 

 gree of doctor of divinity. He took a leading part in 

 the formation of the United Synod of the South in 

 1 KK6. 



Brown, Joseph Emerson, jurist, born in Pickens Coun- 

 ty. S. C., April 15, 1821 ; died in Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 

 3d, is 94. He removed to Georgia in 1836 ; was edu- 

 cated at Calhoun Academy, South Carolina; taught 

 at Canton, Ga. ; and was admitted to the bar in 1845. 

 In 1846 he was graduated at the law school of Yale 

 College, and began practicing at Canton, Ga. He was 

 elected a State Senator in 1849 ; a Pierce presidential 

 elector in 1852; a judge of the superior courts of the 

 Blue Kidge circuit in 1855 ; and Governor of Georgia, 

 us a Democrat, in 1857, 1859, 1861, and 1863. Having 

 sympathy with the secession movement, he took pos- 

 session, as Governor, of Forts Jackson and Pulaski 

 before his State seceded, and of the United States 

 arsenal at Augusta immediately afterward. He aided 

 the Confederate cause throughout the war, though he 

 strongly opposed. SOUK; of Jefferson Davis's war meas- 

 ures on constitutional grounds. After raising a force 

 of 10,000 men to check Gen. Sherman's march through 

 Georgia, he became involved in a heated controversy 



with the Confederate military authorities because of 

 his refusal to send these troops beyond the State when 

 so ordered. After the war he exerted his influence in fa- 

 vor of the adoption of the reconstruction measures of 

 the Federal Government, notwithstanding those meas- 

 ures were opposed by the Democratic party in his 

 State. He testified to his sincerity by supporting the 

 candidacy of Gen. Grant for President in 1868, and the 

 same year was defeated tor the United States Senate 

 arid was appointed by Gov. Bullock Chief Justice of the 

 Supreme Court of Georgia. In 1870 he resigned this 

 office to accept the presidency of the Western and 

 Atlantic Kailroad Company ; subsequently became 

 interested in several business enterprises, and after 

 1872 acted with the Democratic party. In 1880, on 

 the resignation of Gen. John B. Gordon as United 

 States Senator, Judge Brown was elected to fill the 

 unexpired term. By a re-election, in which there 

 was but a single opposing vote, he served till March 

 3, 1891. In his last term he was a member of the 

 standing Committees on Civil Service and Retrench- 

 ment, Foreign Relations, and Railroads, and of the 

 select committee on woman suffrage. His life lias 

 been written by II. Fielder (Springfield, Mass., 1883). 



Browne, John Mills, naval officer, born in llinsdale, 

 N. II., May 10, 1831 ; died in Washington, D. C., Dec. 

 7, 1894. He was graduated at the medical department 

 of Harvard College in 1852 ; entered the United States 

 navy as an assistant surgeon on March 26, 1853 ; was 

 promoted passed assistant surgeon May 12, 1858 ; 

 surgeon, June 19, 1861 ; medical inspector, Dec. 1, 

 1871 ; medical director, Oct. 6, 1878 ; and Chief of the 

 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, with the title of 

 surgeon general and the rank of commodore, April 2, 

 1888: and was retired May 10, 1893. During his 

 naval career he was on sea service eleven years and 

 one month ; on shore or other duty, twenty-six years 

 and three months ; and was unemployed five years 

 and five months. In 1855-'57, while attached to the 

 u Active," he was engaged in surveying the coast and 

 harbors of California, Oregon, and Washington Ter- 

 ritory, in the Indian war on Puget Sound, and in 

 settling the Northwest boundary. In the following 

 year, while on the "Dolphin," ne took part in the 

 capture of the brig u Echo," off Cape Verde, Cuba, 

 with over 300 slaves on board, destined for the Cuban 

 plantations ; and on Sept. 25, 1860, on the flagship 

 " Constellation," assisted in the capture, off Congo 

 river, Africa, of the bark " Cora," with 705 slaves. 

 He was surgeon on the ' Kearsarge " during her suc- 

 cessful fight with the Confederate steamer "Ala- 

 bama," off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864 ; super- 

 intendent of the erection of the naval hospital at the 

 Mare Island (Cal.) Navy Yard in 1869-'71 ; fleet-sur- 

 geon of the North Pacific station in 1874-'76 ; President 

 of the Medical Examining Board, Washington, D. C., 

 in 1880-'82 ; United States naval representative at 

 the International Medical Congress in London, Eng- 

 land, in 1881, and in Copenhagan in 1884; in charge 

 of the Museum of Hygiene in 1882-'85 ; member of 

 the National Board of* Health in 1883 ; and member of 

 the Retiring Board from 1885 till his appointment as 

 chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. 



Brown-Seqnard, Charles Edward, an American-French 

 physiologist, born in Port Louis, Island of Mauritius, 

 April 8, 1817; died in Paris, France, April 2, 1894. 

 He was the son of Edward Brown, a sea captain from 

 Philadelphia, whose vessel was lost in an attempt to 

 convey provisions to the inhabitants of Mauritius dur- 

 ing a famine, and who married there a Mile. C. P. 

 Se'quard. Capt. Brown was recalled to America, and 

 was never heard from after leaving Mauritius. The 

 boy received his early education in Port Louis, where 

 he* also had charge of two circulating libraries, from 

 which he was enabled to gratify his great fondness 

 for reading. In 1838 he went to Paris to complete his 

 education, and promptly took his bachelor degrees in 

 letters (1838) and in science (1839), and then devoted 

 himself to the study of medicine, receiving his M. D. 

 on Jan. 3, 1846, when he presented a thesis on the 

 '' Vital Properties and Functions of the Spinal Cord." 



