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ren; in 1882-'85, Assistant Attorney-General; in 

 1886-'97, justice of the Fifth District Court; and 

 from 1897 till his death an associate justice of 

 the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. Judge Bos- 

 worth represented Warren in the General Assem- 

 bly in 1880-'82 and 1885-'86, was a member of the 

 local school committee more than twenty years 

 and acting superintendent for five years, and was 

 a delegate to the Republican National Convention 

 in 1888. 



Boyd, David French, educator, born in 

 Wytheville, Va., in 1835; died in Baton Rouge, 

 La., May 27, 1899. He was graduated at the 

 University of Virginia, began teaching in 1856, 

 and was chosen Professor of Latin in the Louisi- 

 ana Military Seminary, then under the superin- 

 tendence of Col. William T. Sherman, in 1860. 

 At the beginning of the civil war Col. Sherman 

 came North and entered the national service, and 

 Prof. Boyd joined the Confederate army as colonel 

 of the 9th Louisiana Regiment, subsequently serv- 

 ing with the engineers under Gen. Kirby Smith. 

 After the war Prof. Boyd was superintendent of 

 the Louisiana Military Seminary ten years, when 

 he resigned to become superintendent of the mili- 

 tary school at Cairo, Egypt. He returned home 

 to assume the presidency of Louisiana State Uni- 

 versity, of which he was practically the founder. 

 In 1883 he was chosen president of Alabama 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College, at Auburn; 

 in 1889, of Kentucky Military Institute, near 

 Franklin; in 1893, of Michigan Military Academy, 

 at Orchard lake; and in 1897, of Louisiana State 

 University again, where he was also Professor of 

 Philosophy and Civics. 



Brand, James, clergyman, born in Three Riv- 

 ers, Quebec, Canada, Feb. 26, 1834; died in Ober- 

 lin, Ohio, April 11, 1899. He was brought up 

 on a farm, learned the carpenter's trade, and en- 

 tered Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1858, and 

 Yale College in 1861. He enlisted in the 27th 

 Connecticut Volunteers, with which he took part 

 in the battles of Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, 

 and Gettysburg. He returned to Yale in 1863, 

 was graduated in 1866, spent three years in theo- 

 logical study at Andover, and was ordained pas- 

 tor of a Congregational church in Danvers, Mass., 

 Oct. 6, 1869. From 1873 till his death he was 

 pastor of the First Congregational Church at 

 Oberlin, and was intimately associated with the 

 work of the college and theological seminary 

 there. He received the degree of D. D. from Iowa 

 College in 1888. Dr. Brand delivered noteworthy 

 addresses at the great International Congrega- 

 tional Conference in London and at the Parliament 

 of Religions in Chicago in 1893, and published 

 numerous writings, of which Sermons from a 

 College Pulpit and The Mission of the Christian 

 Church are the best known. 



Brandeis, Frederic, composer, born in Vienna, 

 Austria, in 1835; died in New York city, May 

 14, 1899. He became a student in the College of 

 Vienna, and received tuition in piano playing 

 from Fischof and Czerny, and in composition from 

 Rufinatscha, till the rebellion of 1848 ruined his 

 father. The family emigrated to the United 

 States in 1849, where Frederic attracted the at- 

 tention of Theodore Thomas by the performance 

 of an original sonata. Mr. Thomas introduced 

 him to the public in his series of chamber-music 

 concerts. In 1860 Frederic became organist in 

 the Church of St. John the Evangelist, and on 

 its destruction by fire went to St. James's Roman 

 Catholic Church. From 1880 till 1886 he was 

 organist in a New York synagogue, and thence- 

 forth till his death was similarly connected with 

 the Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter and St. 



Paul. Mr. Brandeis won first honors in prize 

 composition contests, and, among others, com- 

 posed the ballad for orchestra arid chorus, The 

 Ring, and the songs My Love is Like the Red, 

 Red Rose and The Castle by the Sea. 



Breyer, Mary Anne, actress, born in Scotland 

 in 1848; died in Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 14, 1899. 

 She came to the United States with her mother, 

 a well-known Scottish actress, in 1857, and made 

 her first appearance at Saratoga, N. Y. She 

 played several years with her mother, brothers, 

 and sisters as a child actress in Western theaters. 

 At about the age of seventeen she was received 

 as a favorite representative of the heroines of 

 the standard drama throughout the cities of the 

 Ohio and Mississippi valleys, and she played 

 many successful engagements as a star. She 

 joined Mr. H. C. Milne as his leading woman 

 in 1884, when that gentleman abandoned his pro- 

 fession as a clergyman in Chicago and became an 

 actor. She finally went to New York as a repre- 

 sentative of character parts and old women. Her 

 first engagement in New York was in the part 

 of Old Margery in Bronson Howard's play Shen- 

 andoah. Her next New York success was as 

 the old maid in The Private Secretary, and then 

 for four seasons she played Mrs. Firman in Doc- 

 tor Bill. In 1897 she joined the company sup- 

 porting Otis Skinner, and played the Nurse in 

 Romeo and Juliet and other similar parts. When 

 Margaret Mather produced Cymbeline at Wai- 

 lack's Theater, New York, in October, 1898, Miss 

 Breyer played the Queen, and afterward the Nurse 

 in Romeo and Juliet on the road until the death 

 of Miss Mather. In January, 1899, she again 

 joined Mr. Skinner, who was playing Rosemary. 

 Her last appearance was in this play, in the part 

 of Mrs. Menefee, at Nashville, Feb. 4, 1899. 



Bridgman, Charles De Witt, clergyman, born 

 in Saugerties, N. Y., Jan. 1, 1835; died in New 

 York city, Feb. 21, 1899. He was graduated at 

 Rochester University in 1855, and at its Theo- 

 logical Seminary in 1857, and held pastorates at 

 Morristown, N. J., arid Jamaica Plains, Mass., 

 till 1862. In that year he was called to Emmanuel 

 Baptist Church in Albany, N. Y., where he labored 

 with exceptional success for seventeen years. 

 During this period his congregation erected one 

 of the largest church edifices of the denomina- 

 tion in the State. In 1878 he accepted a call 

 from the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, New 

 York city, where he remained thirteen years. 

 On April 29, 1891, he surprised his congregation 

 by resigning the pastorate because of a change of 

 view concerning some denominational doctrines. 

 A month later he entered the Protestant Epis- 

 copal Church, in December following he was or- 

 dained to its ministry, and in February, 1892, 

 he became rector of Holy Trinity Church in the 

 Harlem district. He was an eloquent preacher 

 and writer, and many of his discourses were pub- 

 lished. 



Brinton, Daniel Garrison, ethnologist, born 

 in Thornbury, Chester Co., Pa., May 13, 1837; 

 died in Atlantic City, N. J., July 31, 1899. He 

 was descended from William Brinton, of Shrop- 

 shire, England, who came to Pennsylvania with 

 William Penn in 1684. Of his early life it has 

 been said that " many a day was passed in col- 

 lecting the broken points, the stone axes, and 

 the fragments of pottery that marked the pres- 

 ence of an older and mysterious race." He was 

 graduated at Yale in 1858, and among his class- 

 mates were J. Willard Gibbs, the physicist, and 

 William T. Harris, the educator. He was gradu- 

 ated at Jefferson Medical College in 1860, after 

 which he spent a year abroad, chiefly in Heidel- 



