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obliged him to decline. For the same reason he declined various other local offices which he was, from time to time, solicited to undertake. A con- tinuous residence of over thirty years in that town had made him well known; his steadfast integrity and his approved intelligence and liberality had gained him unbounded confidence, while the warm heart and open hand which he carried to works of piety and charity, his uniform suavity of manner, and his good judgment and frank cooperation in matters of public interest in town and church endeared him to the hearts of all who knew him."
BRINE, WILLIAM HENRY, son of Robert and Ellen Ann (Rowe) Brine, was born in Boston Sept.
store of John Harrington, then in Somerville, and in 1861, when but twenty years of age, he became
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partner in the business. A few years later the firm, in connection with W. L. Lovell, purchased the stock and stand of the Boston house of John Holmes & Co., on Tremont row, and there estab- lished a large and prosperous business. In 1884 Mr. Harrington retired, and, the firm. being dissolved, Mr. Brine formed a new partnership, which was con- tinued for seven years, when he dissolved and started alone at the corner of Tremont street and ' Pemberton square. Having had at one time four stores in Boston, one in Springfield, and one in Manchester, N.H., this is now his only place of busi- ness. The business at the present store, under the personal supervision of Mr. Brine, was increased more than fifty per cent. in the year 1891. The same year he visited Europe and established business connections with the English and Continental manu- facturers. Mr. Brine is a Republican in politics, and for many years served as treasurer of the Middlesex (political dining) Club. He was for twelve years a trustee of the Somerville Public Library. On Sept. 26, 1865, he was married, in East Cambridge, to Miss Hannah Southwick Cannon, daughter of John Cannon, of Cambridge. They have six children : Henry Clinton, now with his father, Ellen, Blanche, William Percival, Alfred, and Francis Brine.
BRODERICK, THOMAS JOSEPH, M.D., son of Daniel and Ellen (Hartnett) Broderick, was born in Exeter, N.H., Nov. 19, 1859. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Cambridge, whither his parents had moved when he was about four years of age. Graduating from the Cambridge High School, he entered the Harvard Medical School in 1879 and graduated in 1882. He imme- diately began the practice of his profession, estab- lishing himself in the Charlestown district. He is visiting physician to the Charlestown Free Dispen- sary and Hospital. During the nine years of his residence in the Charlestown district he has steadily advanced in his profession, and has secured a prac- tice which is not confined to that quarter alone, but extends to Chelsea, Medford, Somerville, Everett, and other nearby cities and towns. He is a mem- ber of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
BROOKS, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS, was born in Peters- ham May 23, 1824. His father, Aaron Brooks, was a lawyer of some note in his native town, and represented his district in the Legislature. Mr. Brooks prepared for college at the Leicester Acad- emy, and graduated from Harvard in 1842. He then studied law at the Harvard Law School and with his father, and was admitted to the Worcester
county bar in 1845. He practised in Petersham until 1848, and then removed to Boston. His practice was chiefly in patent cases until 1875, since which time he has been engaged in railroad and corporation cases, gaining distinction in this especial line, among his notable cases being that of the Ver- mont Central Railroad, which lasted for upwards of ten years. In politics Mr. Brooks is a Democrat of the old school, but has never aspired to political prominence.
BROOKS, GEORGE M., judge of the probate court of Middlesex county at East Cambridge, was born in Concord, Mass. ; graduated from Harvard Col- lege in 1844. He was admitted to the bar in 1847, from Lowell, Mass., and continued to practise until 1872, when he was appointed judge of the court of probate and insolvency in Middlesex county. He was in the lower house of the Legislature one term, and in the senate one term, and was a representative in Congress from 1869 to 1872. His father also was a lawyer.
BROOKS, PHILLIPS, son of William Gray and Mary Ann (Phillips) Brooks, was born in Boston Dec. 13, 1835. He is descended on both the paternal and maternal side from Puritan clergymen- on his father's side from Rev. John Cotton, and on his mother's side from the Phillips family which founded the two famous Phillips Academies. The father, grandfather, and great-grandfather of Samuel Phillips, who gave the greater part of the funds for the found- ing of the Andover academy, were all ministers. Phillips Brooks is one of a group of four brothers ordained to the Episcopal ministry. His father was for forty years a hardware merchant in Boston, and was a member of St. Paul's Church. Phillips Brooks's boyhood was passed partly in Boston, and partly in North Andover in the old Phillips manse. He was educated in the Boston Latin School and at Harvard College, which he entered at the age of sixteen. After graduating, in 1855, he was for a time usher in the Boston Latin School, and then, deciding to enter the ministry, he went to Alexandria, Va., and pursued a course of study in the Protestant Episco- pal Theological Seminary there. In 1859 he was ordained and became rector of the Church of the Advent in Philadelphia. Three years later he went to the Church of the Holy Trinity, in the same city, and remained there antil 1869, when he became rector of Trinity Church in Boston. From this pulpit his fame has spread far and wide. In 18So, and again in 1882-83, he was in England, where he received marked attentions. During the latter
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vacation, which was of a year's duration, he was accompanied by his brother, Rev. John Cotton Brooks, and both of them preached in St. Botolph's Church, in old Boston, Lincolnshire, where their ancestor, John Cotton, preached generations before. Dr. Brooks also delivered, by invitation of Dean Stanley, a sermon before the Queen in the Chapel Royal at the Savoy, London. He preached in other London churches, among them St. Mark's Church, Upper Hamilton terrace ; Westminster Abbey ; St. Margaret's Church, Westminster ; Christ Church, Lancaster Gate ; St. Mark's Church, Kensington ; St. Paul's Cathedral ; Temple Church and Christ Church, Marylebone ; also in Wells Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, and St. Peter-at-Archer, Lincoln. After his return home these sermons were published in a volume entitled "Sermons preached in English Churches." Dr. Brooks's other publications - namely, collections of his sermons and lectures - are : "The Life and Death of Abraham Lincoln " (Philadelphia, 1865), "Our Mercies of Reoccupa- tion " (Philadelphia, 1865), " Addresses by Bishops and Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church " (Philadelphia, 1869), " The Living Church " ( Phila- delphia, 1869), "Sermon preached before the An- cient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston " (Boston, 1872), " Address delivered May 30, 1873, at the Dedication of Andover Memorial Hall " (An- dover, 1873), " Lectures on Preaching," Vale College (New York, 1877), "Sermons " ( New York, 1878), " The Influence of Jesus," the Bohlen lecture deliv- ered in Philadelphia in 1879 (New York, 1879), " Pulpit and Popular Scepticism " ( New York, 1879), "The Candle of the Lord and other Sermons"" (New York, 1883), "Twenty Sermons" (New York, 1886), and "Tolerance," two lectures to divinity students ( New York, 1887). The " Ser- mons preached in English Churches " was published in 1883. In 1881 Dr. Brooks was offered the office of Plummer professor of Christian morals and preacher to Harvard University, but after patient and serious consideration declined it. He also subsequently declined the office of assistant bishop of Pennsylvania. In ISgt he was elected bishop of the diocese of Massachusetts, to succeed Bishop Paddock, who died in 1890. Bishop Brooks is unmarried.
BROWN, BUCKMINSTER, M.D., distinguished as an orthopedic surgeon, was born in Boston July 13, 1819 ; died in Auburndale, Dec. 24, 1891. He was descended from ancestors eminent in medical and surgical science. His paternal grandfather was a well- known physician in inland Massachusetts. His father,
Dr. John Ball Brown, of Boston, was the first surgeon to introduce subcutaneous tenotomy into New Eng- land. His maternal grandfather, Dr. John Warren, was one of the founders of the Harvard Medical School and the first professor of surgery in that institution. Buckminster Brown graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1844. In 1845 and 1846 he was in Europe studying orthopaedic surgery : in England, under Dr. W. J. Little, of London ; in France, under Drs. Jules Guérin and Bouvier ; and in Germany, under Professor Stroh- meyer ; also visiting the large hospitals of England and the Continent. On his return to Boston, in 1846, he immediately established himself in this city as a general practitioner. Orthopaedic surgery was at that early day in its infancy in New England. Dr. Brown's interest in this branch of his profession constantly increasing, and his practice in this spe- cialty becoming extensive and absorbing, he gradually relinquished general practice, and for many years devoted himself almost wholly to this branch of surgery. Patient study and frequent experiment enabled him to aid his surgical skill by apparatus and instruments of his own invention, which have proved most useful in the treatment of the sequelæe of hip disease, and also for spinal and limb de- formities. From time to time Dr. Brown pub- lished the results of his experience, in the medical and surgical journals of the country. Among these monographs are the following, the first published in 1842, the last in 1885 : " Recent Improvements in Medicine and Surgery," January, 1842 ; " Treat- ment and Cure of Cretins and Idiots," 1847 ; "A Case of Extensive Disease of the Cervical Vertebra, with Clinical Remarks, etc." (this paper has been largely quoted by Dr. Broadhurst, the eminent English authority in this branch of surgery), 1853 ; " Cases of Talipes or Club Foot, with Illustrations," 1858 ; " Cases in Orthopaedic Surgery, with Photo- graphic Illustrations," 1868 ; " Femoral Aneurism cured by Direct Compression while the Patient was taking Active Exercise. Death from Peritonitis Ten Years after, with a Plate of the Aneurism and Enlarged Arteries," 1875 ; " Influence of the Pre- vailing Methods of Education on the Production of Deformity in Young Persons of both Sexes, with Plates," 1879, a lecture before the American Social Science Association ; " Description of an Apparatus for the Treatment of Contraction and False Anchylosis of the Hip Joint," 1881; "Ex- tension in the Treatment of Diseased Vertebra," 1884; " Double Congenital Displacement of the Hip, Description of a Case with Treatment result- ing in Cure, with Plates," 1885. This pamphlet
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has been extensively referred to by Dr. Adams, of London, and other orthopedic surgeons of the day. Dr. Brown was, for nineteen years, sur- geon to the House of the Good Samaritan. For many years he was councillor of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He was a member and formerly librarian of the Boston Society for Medical Im- provement, a member of the Boston Medical Asso- ciation, of which he was formerly secretary and treasurer, and a member of the Massachusetts Medical Benevolent Society. He was married in May, 1864, to Sarah Alvord Newcomb, daughter of Joseph Warren Newcomb, and great-granddaughter of Gen. Joseph Warren.
BROWN, ENOCH S., supreme commander of the American Legion of Honor, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1847. After studying law for about three
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years, he engaged in the printing business. For two years he was employed in the editorial room of the " Brooklyn Daily Times," and afterwards man- aged the mechanical department of that paper. Subsequently he formed a partnership with Henry C. Wilson, and established the lithographing and printing house of Brown & Wilson. In 1875 Mr. Brown joined the Odd Fellows, and not long after became a member of the Royal Arcanum, the National Provident Union, the Knights of Honor, and the American Legion of Honor. He is also a
member of the Masonic order. His connection a- a worker in the Legion of Honor began with the institution of the Grand Council of New York. He is a member of the committee on statistics and good of the order of the National Fraternal Con- gress. He is pronounced a master of the subject of fraternal insurance.
BROWN, J. MERRILL, architect, was born in Con- way March 11, 1853. After the usual time spent in the public schools, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, finishing his architectural studies in the offices of H. H. Richardson and Peabody & Stearns. In 1882 he began practice for himself. He is the architect of many handsome and picturesque residences in the Dorchester dis- trict, Cambridge, Arlington, Lexington, Melrose, Marblehead, Milton, Fall River, Newtonville, Win- chester, Newton, Clifton, Brookline, New Bedford, Swansea, Woburn, and Somerville, Mass. ; Albany and Watertown, N.Y .; and Kennebunkport, Me. The Massasoit National Bank, Fall River ; Eddy Building, New Bedford ; Town Hall, Swansea ; Gram- mar schools at Newton and Woburn ; Frost Brothers' apartment-house in the Dorchester district ; ex-Gov- ernor Brackett's residence at 'Arlington, -- are all built after designs made by him. He also designed the cottage, stable, and interiors for Governor Flower,. Watertown, N.Y. His present offices are in the new State-street Exchange Building.
BRYANT, JOHN DUNCAN, son of John and Mary A. (Duncan) Bryant, both natives of New Hampshire, and their parents Massachusetts people, was born in Meriden, N.H., Oct. 21, 1829. He came to Boston at the age of fifteen, and fitted for college in the Boston Latin School. He entered Harvard, and graduated in 1853. Then he studied law in the Harvard Law School and in the office of William Dehore. He was admitted to the bar in 185;, and was in practice with Mr. Dehore until the latter re- tired, some fifteen years later. Since that time he has been engaged in general practice alone, and his present office is in the State-street Exchange Build- ing. For some years Mr. Bryant has been largely employed as counsel for insurance companies, fire and marine, and other corporations, and in the care of trusts and settlement of estates ; has been director of railroad and other corporations. In politics he has always been independent. He is a member of Trinity Church. Mr. Bryant married Miss Ellen Reynolds, of Boston.
BRYANT, LEWIS L., M.D., son of Lewis H. and
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Sophia (Mayberry) Bryant, was born in Casco, Me., ege. Thus lacking means he drifted about, a term May 14, 1850. His early education was begun in the local schools of his native town, and finished in the public schools of Cambridge, Mass., to which city his parents removed when he was eight years old. At the age of seventeen he went to work, and continued actively in business until I871, when he began the study of medicine with Dr. Hildreth, of Cambridge. Afterwards he entered the Harvard Medical School. Graduating in 1874, he immedi- lately began the successful practice of his profession Since 1883 he has been assistant city physician of Cambridge. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and of the Cambridge Medical Improvement Society. He is also prominently iden- tified with the Masonic order. On Oct. 12, 1874, Dr. Bryant married Miss Abbie M., daughter of Seth M. Wiley, of Boston ; they have had three children : Viola, Seth, and Horace Bryant, all of whom died in infancy.
BRYANT, NAPOLEON B., was born in East Andover, N.H., Feb. 25, 1825. His parents were among the honored citizens of the town, possessing but a limited amount of means, but rich in those attain- ments of character which characterized the sturdy New England people of their day. The mother was of Revolutionary stock, and from one of the oldest families in her native town, and the father was a man of high character and fine natural endowments, and for years filled a position in life parallel to that of a general lawyer of to-day, acting as magistrate, trial and otherwise, for many years, making deeds, wills, and contracts, settling up estates, and so on. Young Bryant's early education was obtained under diffi- culties, the first schools being only those afforded by the district and one term at a private school, to at- tend which he was compelled to walk about two and a half miles each way daily. At ten years of age he entered the high school at Franklin, but was able to attend only half a term. A similar privilege was accorded him at the age of eleven and twelve. At the age of fourteen he borrowed money enough from a relation to defray the expense of an entire term at Boscawen Academy, giving his note there- for, which note he repaid with interest at the end of three years. Here he studied trigonometry and sur- veying, and for several years afterwards earned con- siderable sums to aid him in further prosecuting his studies, by surveying in his own and adjoining towns. And it was.at this age that he began life for himself, determining to be self-supporting and at the same time continue his education. At fifteen he began teaching, and taught every winter until he left col-
at a time, among the various academies in the State, at Concord, Claremont, Gilmanton, and New Lon- don, until he entered New Hampton, joining a class which was to fit for college in one year from that time. Here he took the studies of the freshman year, entered the sophomore class at Waterville at the same time his fellow-classmates entered as fresh- men. At the age of twenty-two years he entered the office of Nesmith & Pike, of Franklin, and after almost two years of hard study entered Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1848. At the November term of the same year he was admitted to the bar of Grafton county, and immediately began practice at Bristol. At the age of twenty-five he was elected one of the commissioners of Grafton county - a position which he held three years, being chairman of the board two years. At twenty-nine he was appointed prosecuting attorney (solicitor) for Grafton county, and discharged the duties of that office with marked ability. In 1853 he removed to Plymouth, and from that time was engaged on one side or the other of nearly every important cause tried by the jury. In 1855 he removed to Concord and entered into partnership with Lyman T. Flint, who had assisted him at New Hampton in fitting for the sophomore year. His practice soon became extended to Belknap and Hillsborough, while he retained his hold in Merrimack and upon his old clients in Grafton ; and thus we find him at the age of thirty, a lawyer with a large practice and a fine reputation established over a large part of his State. Up to 1856 Mr. Bryant affiliated with the Democratic party, but after the passage of the Ne- braska bill, and the troubles which had arisen in Kansas, he left that party and supported by voice and vote the nomination of Fremont for president. In 1857 he was elected to represent the sixth ward of Concord in the State Legislature, and was re- elected in 1858 and 1859. The last two years he served as speaker of the House, and his record as such was forcible, consistent, and brilliant. He left the position with the respect of all, for the ability, fairness, and courtesy which he had displayed. He was conspicuous during the bitter fight waged over the judicial system of the State, and while speaker he devised and succeeded in having passed the bill providing for the present system of New Hampshire. In 1860 he was present at the Chicago national convention as a substitute delegate, and worked strenuously and effectively for the nomination of Mr. Lincoln ; and he afterwards stumped New Hamp- shire in his behalf. He was also a delegate from Massachusetts to the Baltimore convention which
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again placed Mr. Lincoln in nomination. In the latter part of 1860 Mr. Bryant removed to Boston, and has since continued here the practice of law, securing a place of prominence at the bar.
BUCHANAN, JOSEPH RODES, son of .Dr. Joseph and Nancy Buchanan, was born in Frankfort, Ky., December 11, 1814. At the age of fifteen he was left, by the death of his father, to maintain himself unaided ; and as a printer, teacher, and medical student he took an original course. In 1835, when he reached his majority, he began the career of a public teacher. Devoting himself to his chosen lifework, the consummation of physiology, by ascer- taining the unexplained functions of the brain and nervous system, and founding his labors on the theory of Gall and Spurzheim, he subjected this theory to years of analysis and criticism. In 1841 his study of comparative development was super- seded by the discovery of the impressibility of the brain, and the power of so affecting the brains of intelligent persons as to determine the location of their various functions. The following year he pub -.
held for four years. During this time the growth of the college was phenomenal. Dr. Buchanan was among the first to procure the admission of femuk students to a medical college. In 1882 he pub- lished "The New Education," which proposes a complete revolution in educational methods. Later he published " Therapeutic Sarcognomy," exhibit- ing the theory of the relations of the soul, brain, and body, and the new system of practice based upon it which he teaches in his Boston "College of Therapeutics." For years he has issued " Bu- chanan's Journal of Man," the aim of which is to publish the results of his labors, and to apply to social progress the theories of his philosophy. Dr. Buchanan was first married in 1841, to Anne, daughter of Judge Rowan of Louisville, who had represented Kentucky in the United States Senate : they had three sons and a daughter, all of whom are still living. In 1881 he married for his second wife Mrs. C. H. Decker, who has become promi- nent in the practice of psychometry.
BUCKLEY, MELVILLE BRYANT, was born in Green- lished his explanation of the brain, showing the point, L.I., May 19, 1868. His parents removed
psychic and physiological functions of all parts, a condensed statement of which he afterwards gave in his " System of Anthropology," published in 1854. Having graduated from the medical department of the Louisville University, he presented his conclu- sions to the faculty and authorities of that institution for examination. He was sustained by Professor Caldwell, and afterwards by Robert Dale Owen. Subsequently, in the winter of 1842-3, he pre- sented the subject in New York, where he received the indorsement of a committee of prominent men, William Cullen Bryant being the chairman. Subse- quently he gave experimental illustrations of the science of psychometry, first presented by him in 1842, the principles of which are set forth in his " Manual of Psychometry," published in 1885. In 1846 he joined with a number of physicians in Cincinnati in establishing the Eclectic Medical Institute. He was made dean of the faculty of the institute, and his new physiology was its most striking novelty. In 1857 he left Cincinnati to attend to the interests of his family estate in Ken- tucky. During the Civil War and the year succeed- ing he was chairman of the Democratic State central committee, and his policy, producing har- MELVILLE B. BUCKLEY. mony between the conflicting parties there, was so to Danvers, Mass., when he was a child, and he highly appreciated that he was nominated by lead- ing citizens for governor ; but he declined to stand. In 1887 he took a position as professor in the Eclectic Medical College of New York, which he
obtained his early training in the grammar and high schools of that place. He began the study of dentistry with Dr. C. H. White, of Danvers, and after nearly two years of tuition came to Boston
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and entered the Boston Dental College, from which institution he graduated June, 1889. In September of the same year he accepted the position of demon- strator of mechanical dentistry at this college, which office he still most creditably fills. He is an active and energetic member of the Boston Dental College Alumni Association, and takes a deep interest in the affairs of that school. He is also a member of the Massachusetts Dental and the New England Den- tal Societies.
BULLARD, WILLIAM NORTON, M.D., was born in Newport, R.I., Aug. 23, 1853. He was educated in Boston private schools, graduated from Harvard in 1875, receiving the degree of A.B., and, taking a medical course, graduated from the Harvard Medi- cal School in ISSo. He was also medical interne in the Massachusetts General Hospital, and then went abroad for two years, pursuing his professional studies in Vienna, Berlin, and Paris. He returned to Boston in 1882, where he has since remained in the practice of his profession. Dr. Bullard is visiting physician to Carney Hospital, physician for diseases of the nervous system to out-patients of the Boston City Hospital, physician for diseases of the nervous system to the Boston Dispensary, and neurologist to the Children's Hospital. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American Neuro- logical Society, the New England Psychological Society, the Boston Society for Medical Improve- ment, the Boston Medico-psychological Society, and the Boston Society for Medical Sciences. He has been a frequent contributor to the various medical journals ; among the topics discussed by him being " Chronic Tea-poisoning," " A Case of Cerebral Lo- calization with Double Trephining," and " Provision for the Care of Pauper Epileptics in Massachusetts."
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