BRANT 



BRANTFORD 



an Oriental magnificence of color. His paint- 

 ings have the decorative quality which is asso- 

 ciated with the names of Morris and Rossetti 

 and their friends, but this quality is obtained 

 by emphasizing color and mass. Similarly, in 

 his etchings he obtains brilliant contrasts in 

 lights and shadows by treating his subjects as 

 masses rather than as lines. This effect nat- 

 urally involves the neglect or suppression of 

 architectural and other details, but the loss of 

 detail is more than balanced by the universal 

 character which is given to the design. 



All of Brangwyn's work is vigorous and digni- 

 fied, and he is notably successful in handling 

 large paintings or etchings. His mural paint- 

 ings include Modern Commerce, in the Royal 

 Exchange, London; King John Signing the 

 Magna Charta, in the courthouse at Cleveland, 

 Ohio; and a series of four paintings for the 

 Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco. 

 The Convict Ship, Trade on the Beach, Saint 

 Simon Stylites and Venetian Funeral are among 

 his best paintings. His etchings include The 

 Sawyers and The Paper Mill. 



BRANT, JOSEPH (about 1742-1807), a brave 

 and diplomatic Mohawk Indian chief, devoted 

 to the welfare of his people. Brant was the 

 name of his foster-father, his Indian name being 

 Thayendanega. At the age of thirteen he took 

 part with his two 

 elder brothers in 

 Johnson's cam- 

 paign against the 

 French at Lake 

 George. He was 

 sent to the Rev. 

 Eleazar Whee- 

 lock's Indian 

 school at Leban- 

 on, Conn., from 

 which Dartmouth 

 College grew, be- 

 came interpreter 

 to a missionary 

 and taught religion to the Mohawks. During 

 the Revolutionary War the Mohawks ad- 

 hered to the British, and because of his abil- 

 ity Brant soon attained the rank of colonel. 

 He fought in the Battle of Oriskany, one of 

 the bloodiest engagements of the war, and led 

 the Indians in many raids, but he was not 

 present at the Wyoming Valley Massacre. 

 Later he lived in Canada on an estate granted 

 him by the British government, and a bronze 

 statue h'as been erected at Brantford, Ontario, 

 in his honor (see below). 



BRANTFORD, ONT., the chief city and 

 county town of Brant County, and the fifth 

 city in size in the province. It is popularly 

 called the Telephone City, because here Alex- 

 ander Graham Bell perfected his invention. 



JOSEPH BRANT 



STATUE TO JOSEPH BRANT 



It is on the Grand Trunk, the Canadian Pacific 

 and the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo railroads, 

 and is an important manufacturing and export- 

 ing center. Electric interurban railways also 

 connect with Gait and other cities. The Grand 

 River, whose valley is noted for its scenic 

 beauty, flows through the city, but is of no 

 commercial importance. Brantford is sixty-five 

 miles southwest of Toronto, twenty-five miles 

 west of Hamilton and seventy-six miles west 

 of Buffalo. Population in 1911, 23,132; in 

 1916, 25,420, not including suburbs. 



The city was founded in 1823, and was named 

 in honor of Joseph Brant, the famous Mohawk 

 chief, to whose memory a fine monument was 

 erected in Victoria Square in 1887. Originally 

 the center of an excellent farming region, the 

 city is now noted for its manufactures, the 



