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sophical Society of Great Britain. Ad- dress, 123 Dithridge St., Pittsburg, Pa.
BREED, Henry Atwood:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Le- gion; private 155th Pennsylvania Infan- try Aug. 9, 1862; discharged for promo- tion. Aug. 21, 1862; Second Lieutenant 155th Pennsylvania Infantry Aug. 22, 1862; honorably discharged for disability Oct. 3, 1863. Elected Feb. 6, 1SS9. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
BREGT, T. A .:
Judge of Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia. Address, Philadelphia, Pa.
BREIDENBAUGH, Edward Swoyer:
Chemist; son of the Rev. E. Breiden- baugh; born Jan. 13, 1849, at Newville, Cumberland County, Pa; was graduated from Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, in 186S. From 1871 to 1873 studied chem- istry at the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale; was Instructor of Analytical Chem- istry at the Sheffield School from 1872 to 1873; also Professor of Natural Sciences from 1873 to 1874 Carthage (Ill.); Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at Pennsyl- vania College since 1874; married Ida Kitzmiller Nov. 20, 1873, at Philadelphia; has been Mineralogist to State Board of Agriculture; practices as chemist. He is author of "Pennsylvania College Book," "Lecture Notes on Inorganic Chemistry," "Mineralogy on the Farm," "Directory in Elementary Chemistry," "Course in Qualitative Analysis," "Syllabus of Lec- ture on Geology," also various articles on scientific subjects for magazines. Ad- dress, Gettysburg, Pa.
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BRELSFORD, Charles Henry:
Educator; son of John P. and Frances Brelsford; born May 11, 1853, in Bucks County, Pa; educated at the public schools of Bucks County. From 1894 to 1896 was graduate student at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. Since 1SS4 has been Supervisor of the Philadelphia pub- lic schools; member of the Teachers' In- stitute, Educational Club and Schoolman's Club, Philadelphia; also author of "Co- lumbia Series of Graded Spelling Books." Address, 2434 N. Broad St., Philadelphia.
BRENDLE, Abraham S .:
Lawyer; member of the Lebanon bar; born at Schaefferstown, Pa., June 12, 1854. llis parents were farmers, and he was
reared on the farm. Leaving the public schools, he prepared for college, and was graduated from Franklin & Marshall Col- lege, at Lancaster, with honors, in 1ST7. After teaching two terms in the public schools of his native town, he began the study of law in the office of Gen. J. P. S. Gobin, at Lebanon, and was duly ad- initted to the bar in 1SS2. Received the degree of A. M. from his Alma Mater in 1850; has done a large amount of liter- ary work, historical, poetical and fiction; has been a campaign speaker for the Republican Party in many political cam- paigns. Is still engaged in the active practice of his profession. Address, Schaefferstown, Pa.
BRENEMAN, Abram Adam:
Chemist; son of Dr. Abraham and Anna Breneman; born April 28, 1847 in Lan- caster, Pa. In 1866 graduated from the Pennsylvania State College, B. S. From 1867 to 1868 was Instructor; also Profess- or of Chemistry at the Pennsylvania State College from 1869 to 1872, and Professor of Industrial Chemistry from 1879 to 1882, at Cornell University. Since 1882 has been
Analyst, Chemical Expert,
writer and lecturer; inventor of Brene- man process of rendering iron non-corrod- ible. From 1884 to 1893 was editor of the Journal, also Vice President of the Am- erican Chemical Society from 1890 to 1892. He was President of the Committee on Awards on Mineral Waters at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. He is un- married. Author of (with Prof. G. C. Caldwell) "A Manual of Introductory Laboratory Practice," published in 1875; also pamphlet on "The Fixation of Atmos- pheric Nitrogen" in 1890; he has written many scientific papers. Address. Ben- sonhurst, N. J .; office, 97 Water St., New York city.
BRENEMAN. F. II .:
President of Lancaster County National Bank. Address, Lancaster, Pa.
BRENGLE, G. Henry:
Vice President; born in Baltimore, Md .. Feb. 25. 1866; removed to Philadelphia in 1874; was graduated from Harvard Col- lege in class of 1887. Vice President and Treasurer of the Trust Company of North America. Address, Philadelphia.
BRENNEN. William J .:
Lawyer; born in Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 2, 1830; educated in the city's public schools
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and then at a private school under the auspices of the Christian Brothers. Dur- ing the war left school and secured work in a rolling mill; re-entered school, but soon after left to learn the machinist's trade. In 1872 he left the city and trav- eled, working at his trade, but soon re- turned and taught a class of young mill men. In 1SS0 he ran for Alderman of the Twenty-fourth Ward. He then took up the study of law, with J. K. P. Duff, and in 1SS3 was admitted to the bar. He was the youngest delegate to the National Democratic Convention in 1876; was elect- ed to Common Council in 1877 and ob- tained several much needed reforms. From 1882 until 1895 was County Chair- man of his party. In 1886 was defeated for Auditor General of the State, and in 1890 was defeated in the Congressional race by Hon. John Dalzell. In many im- portant , cases tried in the Allegheny Courts has figured prominently and has been instrumental in aiding the cause of organized dabor, notably in the Pitts- burg district. Address, 503 Wylie Ave., Pittsburg. Pa.
BREWERTON, Henry Feltus:
Major United States Army; member of the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Second Lieutenant Fifth United States Artillery May 14, 1861; First Lieu- tenant March 1, 1862; Captain Sept. 18, 1868; Major Fifth Artillery Nov. 28, 1892; retired Nov. 28, 1892. Brevetted Captain United States Army Oct. 19, 1864, "for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Cedar Creek, Va." Elected Dec. 2, 1868. Address, 1037 E. Jersey St., Elizabeth, N. J.
BREWSTER, Andre Walker:
Captain United States Army; born in New Jersey; appointed from Pennsylvania as Second Lieutenant Tenth Infantry Jan. 19, 1885; First Lieutenant Twenty-second Infantry Dec. 17, 1891; transferred to Ninth Infantry Feb. 9, 1892; Captain As- sistant Quartermaster of Volunteers Oct. 15, 1898; honorably discharged from Volun- teers May 12, 1899; Captain Ninth In- fantry March 2, 1899. Address, Pekin, China.
BREWSTER, Francis E .:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, March 17, 1852: son of Hon. F. Carroll Brewster, and a lineal descendant of Elder William
Brewster, a Mayflower Pilgrim; is also a descendant of David Rittenhouse, the Colonial astronomer. Entering the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in -1866, he grad- uated B. A. in 1870; subsequently stud- ied in his father's office, and was ad- mitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1873. Since then he has attained prominence in his profession, and in 1SS3 was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court. In 1899 he was elected Solicitor for the Board of City Trusts. He is a member of the Lawyers' Club, and of the Germantown Cricket, the Philadelphia Barge, and the Racquet Clubs. Address, 214 W. Washington Square, Philadelphia, Pa.
BREWSTER, Frederick Carroll, Jr .:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Jan. 4, 1851; son of the late Hon. F. Carroll Brewster, Judge of the Court of Com- mon Pleas and at one time Attorney Gen- eral of Pennsylvania, and a descendant of Elder William Brewster, of the Mayflower Pilgrims. Judge Brewster married Em- ma Barton, daughter of Dr. W. P. C. Barton. Through her the subject of this sketch is a great grandson of Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, the First Attorney General of Pennsylvania, and a great- great-grandson of David Rittenhouse, the celebrated astronomer. F. C. Brewster, Jr., was educated in the private schools, and in the University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated B. A. in 1867. He studied law under John C. Bullitt and his father, and was admitted to the bar in 1870, at the same time receiving from his Alma Mater the degree of M. A. Subse- quently he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1SS1 he married Sophie Grace Almon (now deceased), daughter of Hon. Will- iam Johnston Almon, Senator from Nova Scotia, in the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada, at Ottawa, and niece of Sir William Ritchie, Lord Chief Justice of the Dominion of Canada. He was a member of the First City Troop 1874-1878. and is a member of the Lawyers', the Germantown Cricket, and other clubs, and of the Union League. Address, Will's Avenue north of Manheim St., Philadel- phia, Pa.
BREWSTER, John:
President of Standing Stone National Bank of Huntingdon. Address, Hunting- don, Huntingdon County, Pa.
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BRICE, Singleton Mercer:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; eldest nephew of deceased Com- panion Licut. William Howard Brice. Elected Feb. 4, 1891. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
BRICKER, John Randolph:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Le- gion; Captain 179th Pennsylvania Infant- ry Nov. 18, 1862; honorably mustered out July 27, 1863; Captain and Commissary of Subsistence United States Volunteers May 18, 1864; honorably mustered out Oct. 9, 1865. Brevetted Major United States Volunteers Aug. 29. 1865, "for faithful and meritorious services." Elect- ed Nov. 12, 1890. Address, care of Re- corder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
BRIDENBAUGH. Samuel R .:
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@ Pastor Reformed Church; born Sinking Valley, Blair County, Pa .; educated at public - schools. Mercersburg Academy, Franklin and Marshall Academies, Lan- caster, Pa., Franklin and Marshall Col- lege, which he entered in 1868, graduating with honor in 1872; Theological Seminary of Reformed Church, Lancaster, graduat- ing in 1875. Was ordained to ministry in 1875, pastor at Claysburg one and one- half years. Taught at Martinsburg, Pa., as principal of academy one year. Pas- tor at Berlin, Pa., eight years; Trinity Reformed Church, Bloomsburg, Pa., two . years; . Reformed Church of the As- cension, Norristown, - Pa., five years, and of Second Reformed Church, Read- ing. Pa., twelve years, which position he now holds; married Lydia A. Bowman, Chambersburg, Pa., on Jan. 19, 1876. Dur- ing pastorate at Claysburg, Berlin and Reading, succeeded in having erected at each place a beautiful church edifice. While pastor at Berlin represented the Pittsburg Synod as Synodical editor of Re- formed Church Messenger. For nine years has been a member of Board of Home Missions of Reformed Church. In 1896 was a delegate from Reformed Church of United States to "Alliance of Re- formed Churches of the World," which met in Glasgow, Scotland, and in June, 1904, will represent this denomination at the "Alliance of Reformed Churches of the World," which will meet in Liver- pool, Eng. Honorary title of D. D. con-
ferred by Franklin and Marshall College in 1896. Address, 228 South 6th St., Read- ing, Pa.
BRIDGES, Robert ("Droch"):
Editor; connected with Scribner's Mag- azine since 1887; born July 13, 1858, at Shippensburg, Pa. In 1879 graduated from Princeton, and received the degree of A. M. in 1882; reporter for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in 1880. From 1881 to 1887 asst. news editor for the New York Evening Post, also literary critic of Life from 1883 to 1900. Author of "Over- heard in Arcady," published in 1894; also "Suppressed Chapters." in 1895; "Bramble Brae" (collected poems), 1902. Edited "The Roosevelt Book," 1904. Member of the University, Century, Princeton, Ards- ley Clubs. also Aldine Association, St. Andrew's Society. Address, 19 W. 31st St., New York; office, 153 5th Ave., New York city.
BRIEL, Abraham:
Born in Wernersville, Berks County, Pa; educated in the public schools of Oley Township, in the same county, to which he removed with his parents at the age of five years; enlisted in Company K, Ninety-third Pennsylvania Volunteers and participated in all engagements in which the regiment took part until the expiration of his term of enlistment in 1864; located in Reading, Pa., at the close of the war: represented the Eighth Ward in Common Council for two terms as a Democrat; served three years as Collector of Taxes in the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Wards of Reading; was Assessor of the Eighth Ward for twelve years. Married Sallie Brown in Princetown Jan. 27, 1866. Address, Reading, Pa.
BRIGGS. Frank Obadiah:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; eldest son of Companion First Lieut. James F. Briggs; Cadet United States Military Academy Aug. 28, 1808; Second Lieutenant Second United States Infantry June 14, 1872: resigned and hon- orably discharged Dec. 16. 1$77; elected Oct. 20, 1SS6. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Phil- adelphia, Pa.
BRIGHT. O. Perey :
Lawyer: born in Wilmington. Del .. Feb. 22. 1963; prepared for college by private
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tutors, and entered Yale College in 1881; was graduated with degree of B. A. in 1855; was graduated from University of Pennsylvania, Department of Law, in 18ss; same year admitted to the bar of Philadelphia, where he continues to prac- tice. In 1896 married Ella Frazier Stick- ney, daughter of the late Judge John B. Stickney of Florida. In 1902 married Marian W. Mullen, daughter of Edwin D. Mullen of Germantown. Address, 21 South Twelfth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
BRIGHTLY, Frank F .:
Legal author; born in Philadelphia Feb. 26, 1845; educated in the public schools; studied law under his father, the author of valuable digests of legal decisions, and at the Law Department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. where he was graduated in 1866. He was admitted to the bar under a special rule on Feb. 11, 1865, before he was twenty years of age. He became actively and prominently en- gaged in the practice of his profession, but during the past twenty years has energetically engaged in his father's spe- cialty of authorship. In 1887 issued "A Supplement to Brightly's Digest"; since then has published several new editions and supplements to this valuable work of reference. His first legal work, published in 1887, was "A Digest of the Laws and Ordinances of the City of Philadelphia from 1701 to 1SS7." Other works include new volumes of "Brightly's Digest of Poansylvania Decisions," "A Digest of the Decisions of All the Courts of the State of New York from the earliest period to 1892," a new edition of "Binn's Justice," "Brightly's Quarterly Digest," etc. In these labors Mr. Brightly has accumulated a very large and valuable law library, containing over ten thousand volumes, and rich in rare works of early law. Address, 134 South 9th St., Phila- delphia, Pa.
BRILL. George Reiter:
Illustrator. author; son of William H. and Elizabeth S. (Holstein) Brill; educat- ed at the public schools, Allegheny; also Binghamton High School: studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. He was married at Philadelphia in 1899. Member of the Art Club of Philadelphia. Philadelphia Sketch Club, Fellowship of the Academy of Fine Arts; also News- paper Artists' Association: in 1902 wrote "Andy and the Ignoramus"; also "Bobby
Bumpkin" in 1903. Address, 116 North Seventeenth St .; studio, 1520 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
BRIMMER, Edward Thomas:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Carbon County; was born of English parents in Abersy- chan, Monmouthshire County, South Wales, July 12, 1854; educated in the com- mon schools of Treherbert, Glamorgan- shire, South Wales, where his parents removed when he was quite young; at fifteen years of age he began work as a telegraph operator on the Taff Vale Rail- road; after a few years he resigned and took a position as brakeman on the same railroad, and was promoted by degrees to locomotive engineer; emigrated to the United States in 18$1, since which time he has been following the occupation of stationary engineer; has been employed by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com- pany for the last fifteen years; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1902. Address, 222 Locust St., Harrisburg, Pa.
BRINCKLE, John Rumley:
Major United States Army; born in Pennsylvania; appointed from Delaware Second Lieutenant Fifth Artillery May 14, 1861; First Lieutenant Sept. 18, 1862; Captain Oct. 7, 1874: brevetted Captain April 6, 1865, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Sailors' Creek, Va., and Major April 9, 1865, for gallant and meritorious service in the campaign terminating with the surrender of the insurgent forces under Gen. R. E. Lee; retired with rank of Major Aug. 27, 1896. Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Address, Columbus Hotel, Port- land, Me.
BRINKER. Adam:
President of South Bethlehem National Bank. Address, South Bethlehem, North- ampton County, Pa.
BRINKERHOFF, Henry J .:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Cumberland County; was born in Gettysburg. Adams County, Pa., Nov. 19. 1855; removed to Cumber- land County when a boy: educated in the public schools, and spent his early life on a farm; when seventeen years old he began clerking in a general store; in
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1878 he engaged in mercantile pursuits, and has been actively engaged in buying and selling grain, feed, conl and lumber and in growing fruit; has always been an active Republican, but never before held any political office; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1902. Address, 1254 Derry St, Harris- burg, Pa.
BRINTON, Christian:
. Editor; son of Joseph Hill Brinton; born Sept. 17, 1870, at Thornbury, Chester County, Pa .; in 1892 was graduated from Haverford College. Studied at the Uni- versity of Heidelberg; also at the Uni- versity of Paris; afterward was a pupil of Felix Galipaux of the Vaudeville Thea- ter, Paris, and has acted in Paris and London; he made his first appearance with the Empire Stock Company in New York, and later was with the Felix Morris Company, Kelsey and Shannon Company, and with Mme. Pilar-Morin in panto- mime. From June. 1900, to September, 1903, was associate editor of the Critic; has since been Art Director of Every- bodys' Magazine; is a member of several clubs, among which are Arctic, Players' (New York), The University (Philadel- phia); has written numerous articles on art and literature for the Critic and other magazines. Address, 16 Gramercy Park; office, 31 East Seventeenth St., New York.
BRINTON, Frederick Schermerhorn:
Mechanical engineer; born in Philadel- phia, Pa., Dec. 9, 1872; son of the late Robert Morton and Octavia E. Fosdick Brinton; completed schooling at German- town Academy in 1890; was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1894 with degree of B. S .; degree M. E., 1895; elected Secretary of the Marine Construction & Dry Dock Company of New York at Mariners' Harbor, 1903. Member of Loyal Legion, Naval Archi- texts and Marine Engineers, and of the University of Pennsylvania Club of New York City Address, University of Pennsylvania Club, New York, N. Y.
BRINTON, John Hill., M. D .:
Surgeon; born in 1832 at Philadelphia; in 1850 was graduated from the Univers- ity of Pennsylvania, and received degree of A. M. in 1533; also degree of LL. D. in 1901; was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College. Philadelphia, in 1$52. From 1561 to 1565 was Brigade Surgeon of
United States Volunteers; also Professor in the Practice of Surgery and Clinical Surgery at the Jefferson Medical College in 1882; in 1851. was a member of the Academy of National Science, Philadel- phia; also of Pathological Society, Octo- ber, 1857; American Medical Association, Philadelphia, in 1872; Academy of Sur- gery, April, 1890; American Philosophical Society in 1886. In 1569 was Mütterlec- turer on surgical pathology, also Surgeon to St. Joseph's Hospital, Philadelphia, 1859, and at the Philadelphia Hos- pital from 1867 to 1SS2 and the Jeff- erson College Hospital, Philadelphia, 1877. Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Loyal Legion; also Pennsyl- vania Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and Society of Colonial Wars. Address, 1423 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa.
BROMALL, William Booth:
Lawyer; born in Chester, Delaware County, Pa., on Jan. 30, 1843; entered Haverford College in September, 1856, and was graduated in 1861; served as a mem- ber of the 124th Regiment of Pennsyl- vania Volunteers; from August, 1862. to May, 1863, attached to General Kane's Brigade, Geary's Division, Twelfth Army Corps, the Army of the Potomac. Admit- ted to the bar in February, 1864, and has been in active practice ever since in the courts of Delaware County and the ad- joining counties of Philadelphia and Chester; served in the municipal offices of . School Director and City Council. President of the Penn Club, Director of the First National Bank of Chester and the Delaware County Trust Company, Solicitor of Delaware County National Bank. Cambridge Trust Company. and the Chester Traction Company; local So- licitor of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. Married Anna Mary Hinkson. Address, Chester, Pa.
BROMLEY, Thomas, Jr .:
Carpet manufacturer; born in Phila- delphia Aug. 23, 1$64; son of Thomas Bromley, one of the pioneers and the most active producers in the great car- pet manufacturing business of Philadel- phia. Educated in the public schools, he entered the Bromley mills in 1SS2 in the capacity of a loom apprentice, and worked his way up till he had a thorough knowledge of every department of the carpet making business. When the firm was incorporated in 1991 as the Bromley Brothers' Carpet Company he was made
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its Secretary, and in 1894 was made Treasurer, now holding both these offices. In 1889 he invented a power loom for making Sinyrna rugs, which made so great a revolution in the trade that now only the most inferior grades of rugs are woven on the old hand looms; when a committee of the carpet manufacturers of America represented their interests before the Tariff Committee of Congress, Mr. Bromley took such an active part in its work that he was elected Secretary and Treasurer of the committee. Aside from his business relations, he is a mem- ber of the Manufacturers', Columbia, Athletic, and Pennsylvania Barge Clubs, and is much devoted to athletic sports and to horsemanship. Address, Tabor Road, Olney, Philadelphia, Pa.
BRONSON, Charles Hopkins:
Auditor of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad Company; was born at Dayton, Ohio, Sept. 11, 1845. He is a son of Charles H. and Emily (Gale) Bronson. He attended the public schools of Cin- einnati, Ohio, and later attended the Rockewell St. school in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1861 he secured a position as cashier in a drygoods house in Cincinnati; was employed in the local freight office of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; was a member of the Seventh Regiment of Ohio National Guards when that body was called on to aid in repelling the Morgan raid. He was the orderly sent by General Burnside with despatches to General Hobson. For this service he was sworn into the Union Army in Com- pany C, One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, wich the rank of Corporal. Later the com- pany was incorporated into a Zouave Battalion, with Mr. Bronson as Orderly Sergeant. He served in this capacity for five years and was discharged honorably. For ten years thereafter he held clerical positions with various firms and then he entered the employ of the Kentucky Central Railroad at Covington, Ky., hold- ing various positions of responsibility. Between the years 1884 and 1889 he was General Auditor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. On Dee. 1, 1SS9, he be- eame connected with the Auditor's office of the Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway at Cleveland, Ohlo. Since April, 1890, he has been Auditor of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie system. He is a member of the American Associa- tion of Railroad Accounting Officers. He
is also a member of the Board of Audi- tors of the Vanderbilt Lines. He was made a Mason at Richmond, Va., and is a member of Washington- Chapter Royal Arch Masons No. 9, and St. Andrew's Commandery, Knights Templar, No. 13, both of Richmond. He is a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystie Shrine, Syria Temple of Pitts- burg, and of the Fort Pitt Conelave, No. 429, of the Improved Order of Heptasophs. In politics he is a Republican. On Sept. 20, 1876, he married Grace Darling Ran- som. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Address, 315 Neville St., Pittsburg, Pa.
BROOKE, Edward:
President of First National Bank of Birdsboro, Pa. Address, Birdsboro, Pa.
BROOKE, George:
Ironmaster, of Birdsboro, Pa .; born in that place in 1822; son of Matthew Brooke, a pioneer iron founder; with his brother Edward he built up the present large establishment of the E. & G.
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