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Baltimore Female College, which step marked him 

 is one of the earliest advocates of higher female 

 jducation. He projected and carried into execu- 

 ;ion a series of classical books on an improved sys- 

 ,em. He wrote and published " A Complete His- 

 ;ory of the Mexican War " (1845). 



Brown, William M., artist, born in Troy, N. Y., 

 n 1828 ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1898. He 

 jpas famous as a landscape painter, and was one of 

 he last of the Hudson river school of artists. At 

 he time chromolithography was coming into notice 

 ic painted " A Basket of Peaches upset," which was 

 nirchased by an art dealer for $2,000, and was made 

 1 he subject of a chroino. " Raspberries and Straw- 

 berries," "'Wild Strawberries," "Apples," and other 

 subjects from his brush were made familiar by 

 i -,h r< unolithography. 



Bruce, Blanche K., register of the United States 

 Treasury, born a slave in Prince Edward County, Va., 

 March 1, 1841 ; died in Washington, D. C., March 

 .7, 1898. He was brought up as the companion of 

 his master's son, and personally knew nothing of 

 the hardships of slavery. Shortly before the civil 

 var he removed to Mississippi with the family to 

 which he belonged. His master died about the 

 lime the war broke out, the young master joined 

 ihe Confederate army, and the slave made his way 

 10 Hannibal, Mo. There he organized the first 

 i chool in the country exclusively for negroes, and 

 aught till he had acquired a little money, when he 

 ntered Oberlin College. Lack of means prevented 

 lira from completing the course, and he supported 

 limself as best he could till the war closed. He 

 hen went to Mississippi, where he became a planter 

 ;jid entered actively into the reconstruction move- 

 ment. He was sergeant-at-arms of the first Missis- 

 { ippi Senate that sat after the war, and between 1871 

 !,nd 1875 he held the offices of assessor, collector, 

 sheriff, and superintendent of education for his 

 county, and commissioner for the 2d Levee District 

 of Mississippi. On Feb. 3, 1875, he was elected 

 United States Senator as a Republican. When he 

 appeared for formal induction into the office he 

 held back till all the other Senators-elect had been 

 presented by their escorts, and then walked alone 

 toward the president's desk. Suddenly Roscoe 

 Conkling passed from his seat to the aisle, offered 

 his arm to the negro, and said : " Excuse me, Mr. 

 Bruce, my name is Conkling. I had not until this 

 moment noticed that you were unattended. Allow 

 me the pleasure of presenting you." On the expi- 

 ration of his term, in 1881, he was appointed regis- 

 ter of the United States Treasury, and on Dec. 2, 

 1897, he was reappointed by President McKinley. 

 I After the death of Frederick Douglass he was con- 

 sidered the foremost man of his race in the country. 

 Brunot, Felix R., philanthropist, born in New- 

 iport, Ky., Feb. 7, 1820 ; died in Allegheny, Pa., May 

 i', 1898. He was graduated at Jefferson College, 

 iCannonsburg, Pa., and became a civil engineer. In 

 1842 he engaged in milling at Camden and Rock 

 Island, 111., till 1847, when he became interested in 

 Ihe manufacture of steel at Pittsburg. At the be- 

 ginning of the civil war he declined a commission 

 in the army, and gave much of his time and money 

 1 o relieving sick and wounded soldiers. After the 

 attle of Shiloh he fitted out two vessels with medi- 

 ines and supplies, and ran down to Pittsburg 

 janding, where he personally cared for the stif- 

 ling, afterward taking the convalescents back to 

 'it i sburg. In June, 1862, he took charge of twenty- 

 iyc surgeons and medical cadets engaged by the 

 'ittsburg Relief Commission, and went to Savage 

 Hat ion and Gaines's Mills. He remained in this 

 ieinity after Gen. McClellan changed his base of 

 Iterations, and although he pledged himself to care 

 or the Union and Confederate wounded alike, he 



was arrested and taken to Libby Prison. After the 

 war he served for several years as president of the 

 Board of Indian Commissioners, under appointment 

 by President Grant. Nearly every Protestant and 

 secular charitable institution in the city and neigh- 

 borhood of Pittsburg received aid from him. (See 

 GIFTS AND BEQUESTS.) 



15 1 1 ell, Don Carlos, soldier, born near Lowell, 

 Ohio, March 23, 1818; died near Rockport. Ky., 

 Nov. 19, 1898. He was graduated at the United 

 States Military Academy in 1841, and assigned to 

 the 3d Infantry. He became 1st lieutenant, June 18, 

 1846 ; was brevetted captain at Monterey, and ma- 

 jor at Contreras 

 and Churubusco, 

 where he was se- 

 verely wounded. 

 He was assistant 

 in the adjutant 

 general's office 

 at Washington 

 in 1848-'49, and 

 commanded in 

 various depart- 

 ments of the 

 army till 1861; 

 was promoted 

 lieutenant colo- 

 nel on the staff 

 May 11, 1861 ; 

 appointed briga- 

 dier general, May 

 17, 1861. In August he was given command of a divi- 

 sion of the Army of the Potomac, and in November 

 following, when the Army of the Cumberland was 

 reorganized as that of the Ohio, he succeeded Gen. 

 William T. Sherman in command. Early in 1862 

 Gen. Buell began a campaign in Kentucky and 

 Tennessee ; occupied Bowling Green, Feb. 14. 1862, 

 Gallatin, Feb. 23, and Nashville, Feb. 25. He be- 

 came a major general of volunteers. March 21, 1862, 

 and saw hard service at Shiloh, where he arrived 

 April 6. at the close of the first day's action. When 

 Bragg organized his army for the invasion of Ken- 

 tucky in the summer of 1862 Gen. Buell was sent 

 to oppose him. Bragg's army advanced into Ken- 

 tucky, captured several of Buell's posts, and com- 

 pelled the abandonment of Lexington and Frank- 

 fort and the removal of the State archives to 

 Louisville. The opposing army passed to the rear 

 of Buell, forcing him to retreat rapidly to Louis- 

 ville, which city he entered Sept. 24. Six days later 

 orders came from Washington directing-him to turn 

 the command over to Gen. Thomas ; later on the 

 same day, however, he was restored to his command, 

 and by Oct. 1 he had set out to pursue the enemy. 

 He overtook Bragg at Perryville, and a battle was 

 fought, Oct. 8, with heavy losses on both sides. 

 Next morning Bragg withdrew slowly to Cumber- 

 land Gap, and, although Gen. Buell followed, he 

 was blamed for not moving rapidly enough to bring 

 the enemy to action again. He was ordered to 

 transfer his command to Gen. Rosecrans, Oct. 24,. 

 and a military commission was appointed to inves- 

 tigate his operations, but their report never has 

 been published. He was mustered out of the vol- 

 unteer service May 23, 1864, and resigned his com- 

 mission in the regular army June 1, 1864. He be- 

 came president of the Green River (Ky.) Iron Works 

 in 1865, and continued as such till 1870. when he 

 engaged in coal mining on Green River. From 1885 

 till 1890 he served as pension agent at Louisville. 

 In 1894 he engaged in the extraction of gold from 

 the black sand along the seashore of Oregon and 

 Washington. 



Bnllitt. Joshua Fry, jurist, born in Jefferson 

 County, Ky., Feb. 22, 1822 ; died near Louisville, Ky., 



