give him up, although he had been | blessed with SO much longevity, and they were willing and anxious to extend their hospitality and kindness to him, as they manifested up to the very last moment of his existence. In his character he was retiring and unassuming; generous and good to the poor, kind and obliging to his neighbors, affectionate and loving to his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren; and it is a source of gratification to them to know that he never wanted for any thing, and that their loss is his gain, for he has filled the grave of an honest man. - N. C. newspaper. BREM, Mrs. Martha A., Charlotte, N. C., March 16, œ. wife of Mr. Thomas H. Brem. The deceased was the second daughter of the late Dr. Stephen Fox, whose wise and judicious precepts of moral and Christian duty, so assiduously and thoroughly inculcated upon the minds of all his children, were unceasingly practised to the last moment of her life by the subject of this humble and imperfect notice. Often, during her short sickness, she expressed to her venerable surviving parent a perfect consciousness of her approaching dissolution, and a certain confidence of meeting her Saviour at the throne of omnipotent grace. neighbor, she was always kind and obliging. As a friend to the poor and afflicted, she was liberal, punctual, and active in the performance of her whole duty. As a BRENNAN, Joseph, New Orleans, May 28, æ. - editor of the New Orleans Times. He was a compatriot with Mitchell and Meagher. BRENTON, Hon. Samuel, Fort Wayne, Ind., March 29, æ. 48. He was a native of Gallatin Co., Ky.; was a minister from the age of twenty until 1848, when struck by paralysis, he resigned, and was appointed register of the Fort Wayne land office. He was elected to Congress in 1851, and again in 1855. From 1853 to 1855, he was president of Fort Wayne College. BREWER, Gardner, Milton, Mass., Aug. 19, æ. 15, only son of Gardner Brewer. He was accidentally shot. BRIDGES, Harrison, Louisville, Ky., March 24, æ. -, merchant of that city. BRIGGS, David, Milo Centre, Yates Co., N. Y., æ. 80. BRIGGS, Elisha, Pembroke, Mass., -, æ. 76, was for many years a shipbuilder at Belleville, and was a subscriber to the Newburyport Herald about fifty years. BRIGGS, Dr. H. W., Atalanta, Ill., Jan. 17, æ. about 30, was a native of Taunton, and had been in Illinois about six years. BRIGGS, Jeremiah, West Burlington, Otsego Co., N. Y., æ. 78. He formerly resided in Benton, and was one of the pioneers in the settlement of that county. BRIGHTWELL, Basil, Richmond, Ill., June 4, æ. 70. He was one of the oldest settlers of that place, having been engaged in business there between 30 and 40 years. He was a useful citizen, and esteemed as an honorable and correct man in his business transactions. BRINCKERHOFF, Edward, Albany, N. Y., Jan. 6, æ. 48. BRINCKLE, Mrs. Elizabeth B., Groveville, N. J., Aug. 27, æ. —, wife of Dr. Wm. B. Brinckle. BRINKERHOFF, Mrs. Elizabeth B., Norwich, Conn., March 4, æ. 74. BRINLEY, George, Hartford, Conn., Jan. 22, æ. 82. He was formerly a druggist in Boston, and was a large owner of real estate in that city and Worcester. His wife was a granddaughter of Gen. Israel Putnam. BRINLEY, Mrs. Elizabeth, Tyngsborough, Mass., May 7, æ. 76, wife of Robert Brinley, Esq. This estimable lady was descended from a long line of distinguished ancestors. Her father, Hon. John Pitts, graduated at Harvard University in 1757, and was for several years a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and speaker of that body in 1778. Her grandfather on her mother's side was Hon. John Tyng, a graduate of Harvard, in 1725, and judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in Middlesex Co., from 1763 to 1786, having been reappointed and made chief judge after the revolution. Previous to his appointment_as judge, he was for ten years a member of the House of Deputies from Boston. The father of Judge Tyng was Major William Tyng, a gentleman of a military turn. He was a major in the time of "Queen Anne's War," in the battles with the Indians, and was killed by them in 1710. Major Tyng's father was Col. Jonathan Tyng. He was one of the pioneers of the old township of Dunstable, a man of great courage, energy of character, and influence, all of which were exhibited during the Indian war with King Philip. Besides many offices which he held, he was colonel of the upper Middlesex regiment, judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Middlesex Co. from 1702 to 1719, and was appointed one of Sir Edmund Andros's council under King James II. The father of Col. Tyng was Hon. Edward Tyng, who was born in Dunstable, Eng., in 1600, and came to Boston about 1639. In 1642 he began his official career as "a constable of Boston." He was afterwards one of the deputies two years, and assistant thirteen years; in the colonial government; was major of the Suffolk regiment; and was elected major general, but probably did not serve. He held many other public offices of less importance. Previous to his death he removed from Boston to that part of Dunstable which is now Tyngsborough, and from his native place in England the old township of Dunstable took its name. The town of Tyngsborough also took its name from the family. BRISON, Benj., Newtown, Jan. 6, æ. 77, one of the oldest and most esteemed citizens of that town. BROADDUS, Mrs., Charlottesville, wife of Rev. John Va., . HENRY POWELL BRODNAX, Russellville, Ky., Feb. 4, æ. 87. Judge Brodnax was born in Dinwiddie Co., Va., March 15, 1769. He was the youngest son of Henry Brodnax, Esq., a gentleman of great respectability and worth. He was educated in his native county, and studied law with Judge Edmund Pendleton, then one of the most distinguished men in Virginia. He was licensed to practise law, in 1794, shortly after he came to Kentucky. He was appointed judge of the district in which he died, among the first bench of circuit judges in the state, which office he held for 27 years, when he resigned and retired to private life. During a period of 30 years, Judge Brodnax was an infidel; never till after he retired from public life did he pay any attention to the subject of religion. In the year 1832, "after a long struggle with a very proud heart," he obtained a hope in Christ. His conversion was a clear manifestation of divine grace to himself. He united with the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and was ordained a ruling elder. Some years after he became a member of the old school Presbyterian church, in the communion of which he died. Judge Brodnax was a man of strong, good sense, honest, frank, and candid. While judge, he was emphatically a terror to evil doers. He may have done wrong from being misled by his very strong feelings and prejudices; but a more honest man never lived. He could not act the hypocrite. He never could be popular on that account. He certainly had very great peculiarities and eccentricities of character; yet he was truly a humane, kind-hearted, Christian man. There was always a tinge of superstition about him; he was a strong believer in special prayer and special providence. His statements on such points would often surprise and startle his best friends; yet they all believed him to be rigidly honest and sincere in all he said. He was ever distinguished by four things: 1. His sincerity-honest heartedness. 2. His soundness in the doctrines of grace. 3. His daily, constant reading of the Bible. 4. He was emphatically a man of prayer. Some years since, he set free all his slaves, and left them in good circumstances. There never was a kinder master. He was almost literally the executor of his own will. After divers legacies to others, he left upwards of twenty thousand dollars to the Danville Theological Seminary. BROOKHOUSE, Matilda L., Roxbury, Mass., Feb. 1, æ. —. BROOKING, Robert E., Lexington, Ky., Dec. 21, æ. 76. BROOKS, Dr. Adin, Red Wing, Minnesota Ter., Oct. 4, æ. 26. BROOKS, John, Mill Creek, Pa., Oct. 24, æ. 85, one of the oldest and most esteemed citizens of the county. BROOKS, Miriam, Westminster, Dec. 7, æ. 81, wife of Samuel Brooks. BROOKS, Hon. Preston S., Washing BROWN, Christopher, South Union, Pa., March 18, æ. 84. The deceased was one of the oldest and most respected citizens of the county. He lived all his long life and died on the same farm on which he was born in the year 1773. ton, D. C., Jan. 27, æ. 37. He was born | D. D., of the city of New York, was in Edgefield District, S. C., in August, great-grandfather on the mother's side. 1819. He graduated at the South Carolina College in 1839, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1843, and was a state representative in 1844. In 1846 he raised a company of volunteers, was made captain, and served in the Palmetto regiment during most of the Mexican war. After the war he withdrew from the bar, and devoted himself to planting. He was elected to Con- | gress in 1853, and reelected in 1855. The incidents of his life in connection with his assault on Senator Sumner, his leaving the house, and reëlection, are too well known to be repeated here. His death was sudden, the disease be ing acute inflammation of the throat; and it created a profound sensation throughout the country. BROOKS, Mrs. Susan E., Madison, Wis., Feb. 27, æ. 36, wife of Rev. W. R. Brooks, pastor of the Baptist church. BROOKS, Warren, Townsend, Mass., Feb. 4, æ. 24, graduate of Harvard College, class of 1856. BROOKS, Thomas, Sen., Norfolk Co., Va., March 2, æ. 88. He was highly esteemed by the community for his many excellent qualities. "In all the relations of life," says the Transcript, "as father, husband, citizen, friend, he was truly kind, indulgent, exemplary, and faithful, and has gone to receive the reward of a well-spent life." . BROWN, Mrs. Abigail Webster, Wilmington, Mass., Feb. 2, æ. 73, wife of Dr. Silas Brown. BROWN, Arthur Van Vechten, Hanover, N. H., April 4, æ. 4 yrs. 3 mths., son of Prof. S. G. Brown, and grandson of the late distinguished President of Dartmouth College, Francis Brown, D. D., who died at Hanover, July 27, 1820, æ. 36. President B. left a widow, daughter of the late Rev. Tristram Gilman, of North Yarmouth, Me., who died at Hanover, Sept. 5, 1851, æ. 75, and one son and daughter who still reside there. President B. will long be remembered for "his talents and learning, his amiableness and piety," and for his connection with Dartmouth College during the agitation of the great constitutional question of the inviolability of English charters of our colleges and eleemosynary institutions by state legislation. The late Rev. John M. Mason, BROWN, Cornelia Tryon, Cleveland, O., March 6, æ. 61, wife of Gen. Joseph W. Brown, of Toledo, O., and daughter of the late Judge Tryon, of New Lebanon, N. Y. Mrs. B. was a sister of the late Mrs. Thomas Shepherd, of this town, and thinking that some of the numerous friends she left here will be interested in a notice of Mrs. B., written by the Episcopal clergyman of the church of which she was a valued member, and published in a Toledo paper, I send an extract from it for your paper: "Thus while serving God in her generation hath this holy woman been gathered to her fathers. For 40 years her steady, consistent, and fruitful piety has borne testimony to the faith of Christ. During this long period she met the trials and vicissitudes of a life checkered with such sorrows as few mothers are called to endure, with an unmurmuring patience, and an unshrinking fidelity, rarely equalled and never surpassed. To her family, to society, and the church she so ardently loved, she was ever faithful and true. In social intercourse her presence secured modesty, prudence, and charity, with a sweet savor of cheerfulness. At home she ruled by the persuasions of love, and taught her children by example as well as precept; and in the church her memory will ever be associated with whatever is lovely and of good report. In prosperity she was humble, in adversity resigned, in sufferings patient, for the hopes of religion were her constant solace and unfailing support, and she loved what she now enjoys,' for blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.'" We may add that her angelic sweetness and untiring patience, during the two years of intense suffering previous to her death, will never be forgotten by those who had the privilege of watching by her bedside. Previous to this sickness, she seemed to have become "perfect through suffering." We have the evidence of one who was in her family for months 6 together, that she did not seem to have a fault. She was looked up to as a superior being by those about her, and, beloved by all, her loss will be felt by a large community. Ohio paper. BROWN, Daniel, Ann Arbor, Mich., , æ. 81. Mr. B. was born in the village of Lexington, in the State of Massachusetts, in the year 1775. His family afterwards removed to Windsor Co., Vt., where, for a long series of years, he served in the legislature of the state. Migrating to Western New York, he filled for many years offices of trust and honor among his fellow-citizens. He came to this place in 1826, when the site of our city was almost an unbroken wilderness. To his forethought, energy, and public spirit was the town indebted for the first impulse in its career of prosperity. He was possessed of a genial disposition, and social qualities of a high order, which enabled him through life to win "troops of friends," whom he retained by his integrity, generosity, and high sense of honor. Born at the time and in the place where the first blood of the revolution was spilt, his nursery tales were the stories of patriotism, and his cradle hymns were the songs of liberty. These early impressions remained indelible through life. He was enthusiastic in his support of the great party of his preference, recording his first vote for Mr. Jefferson, in 1796, and with a fidelity that never faltered, supported each succeeding presidential candidate of his party, coming out for the last time to record his vote for Mr. Buchanan. It is an interesting fact in the early history of this county, that on the inauguration of President Jackson, in 1829, every "Jackson man" in Washtenaw Co. was invited, and most of them were present at his house, at a festival given in honor of the occasion. The lamp of his life went out peacefully and quietly. He died without disease and without pain, expressing gratitude that his time had come, and relying with unshaken confidence in a glorious immortality. The burial was conducted by the masonic societies of the city. He had been a prominent member of that institution for more than half a century. BROWN, Elizabeth, Uxbridge, Mass., July 27, æ. 82, widow of the late Eleazar Brown. BROWN, Elias, Carroll Co., Md., July 3, æ. 65. He was a most exemplary man, a true and devoted patriot, an everprotecting friend to the needy, and a stanch advocate of pure republican principles. He was called in early life to engage in the grand arena of political contention, and no man fought better for the constitution and her rights than he did. True to his cause, he stood as a giant oak, always resisting the mighty blasts that often swept against him. At one time he was first lieutenant of a troop of horse that volunteered in 1814 for the defence of Baltimore, and was in the battle when the British made their unsuccessful attack on that city. Shortly after this, he was appointed captain in said troop, but resigned as soon as the war was over. He was honored on different occasions with being an elector for president, and once an elector of state senator under the old constitution. He was in both houses of the legislature; three years in the House of Delegates, and two years in the Senate. He was elected member of Congress, and was in the convention in 1850, when the present state constitution was framed. The crowning act of his long political career was to visit Washington last winter, in reference to the proposed measures against his old friend, Judge Lecompte, of Kansas. He called on several senators with whom he was intimately associated, and also on the president, and there refuted the measures, that were so strongly charged on the judge. The stentorian voice and generous disposition of Mr. B. were duly appreciated, and he lived to see his friend, Lecompte, in the full enjoyment of the judicial bench of Kansas. In conclusion, Mr. B., after devoting himself to the interests of the community, and setting a most worthy example for his compatriots and followers, fell a sacrifice to disease. In his sickness, he displayed the most heroic fortitude ever witnessed, and rivalled the stoical indifference of the Christian martyrs. There he lay upon the couch of sickness, calmly, quietly, patiently awaiting the messenger death, and often wishing him to speed his anticipated advance. Finally, death relieved him of his world of agony, and we hope that he now rests amidst all the pure glories of one continued joy. BROWN, Eunice, College Hill, Ohio, Sept. 11, æ. 86, wife of Ephraim Brown. She was one of the pioneers of Hamilton Co., having settled at North Bend upwards of 60 years ago. Her husband was an officer in the north-western army in the last war with England, and was a representative in the General Assembly of the state for 14 years. She had a lively recollection of the revolutionary war-in fact, her memory was stored with the whole history and the traditions of her country. BROWN, Rev. Francis H., Jonesboro', Ill., Sept. 19, æ. 38. He was for 17 years a consistent and useful member of the Baptist church, and for 14 years a worthy minister of the gospel. GOOLD BROWN, Lynn, Mass., March 31, æ. 66. Mr. B. was born in Providence, R. I., March 7, 1791. He was the second son of Smith Brown, a descendant of Chad Brown, (one of the early settlers of Rhode Island,) and one of the firm of Almy and Brown, at the time they erected the first cotton factory in the United States. His wife was Lydia, daughter of Samuel Goold, of Pembroke, Plymouth Co., Mass., who inherited a farm in that place at the death of her father, and her husband decided to relinquish his interest in the factory, and removed thither when the subject of this memoir was in his third year. He was a very quiet, docile child, fond of retiring by himself, and of petting the animals about him, rather than joining in the rude sports common to boys. He very early evinced that spirit of perseverance and thoroughness in every thing he undertook, which so strongly characterized him through life. His parents were members of the society of Friends, and he was brought up in the simplicity peculiar to that sect, and what was, perhaps, but the influence of education on the boy, became the conviction of his riper years, and he retained his right of membership in the society through life; and though no bigot, he gave evidence of a conscientious desire to fulfil all the Christian duties incumbent on those who make so high a profession. There was, at the time of his school days, no boarding school for the Friends in New England, and his education was con fined principally to the public schools, at that time not continued more than half the year; he, however, industriously improved all the opportunities afforded him, and was very efficient in working on the farm during the vacations. At the age of 15, he was placed in the counting room of his father's former partners, Almy and Brown, with the expectation of getting initiated into the manufacturing business; but, for some cause, that arrangement seems not to have been entirely satisfactory, as he remained there but one year, when he left and returned home, and as there was nothing to prevent, he suggested that he should like to obtain more knowledge of books. Accordingly, he again left home, (in the summer of 1807,) and from that time to the close of his life, (near 50 years,) his time was almost exclusively devoted to literary pursuits. He has been heard to remark that the circumstance of his leaving Providence, though a trifling thing, was the means of an entire change in his after life, saying, "Had I remained there, I might have become a successful manufacturer, but I should never have been a scholar." The school to which he went was Sandwich Academy, then one of the most flourishing institutions in Massachusetts, under the care of Elisha Clapp, Esq., a gentleman of great moral worth and literary acquirements, and very much respected by his pupils. Mr. B. always spoke of him in the highest terms, and to him more than any other person was he indebted for the direction of his literary taste. He remained under his tuition as long as he was the preceptor there, and one term under his successor, when he left Sandwich, and was one or two terms at the Pierce Academy in Middleboro'. The whole of his academic course could not have exceeded three years, as it is remembered that he taught a district school in the winter of 1810-11, if not the previous one. He likewise taught a private school the summer following, for the benefit of his young associates in Pembroke. In the autumn of 1811 he accepted an invitation to become principal teacher in the Friends' Boarding School, Dutchess Co., N. Y. This was an important undertaking for one so young, but he acquitted himself with credit, and very much to the satisfaction of his |