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Brown (BENJAMIN GRATZ an graduated)

BENJAMIN GRATZ, an

28, 1826; graduated at Yale, Ky., May 28, 1826 in 1847. He practiced law in Missouri, and was a member of the State Legislature in 1852-1858. In the Civil War he served in the Union army, recruiting a regiment, and becoming a Brigadier- General of volunteers. In 1863-1867 he was United States Senator from Mispri, and in 1871 was elected governor

Otate. He was the candidate for American politician, born in Lexington, BROWN He Jan. 17, 1771, was of a highly respect- able family, of Quaker descent. He able family, of Quaker descent. studied law, but abandoned it for litera- Jan. 17, 1771, was of a highly respectture. His first publication was "Alcuin, a Dialogue on the Rights of Women," which appeared in 1797; followed in American novelist, born in Philadelphia, established himself in New York, and when the yellow fever broke out there he refused to forsake his friends and 1798 by "Wieland; or, the Transformation," a novel; and in 1799 by "Ormond ; or, the Secret Witness." In 1798 he pestilence. His experiences he dein 1804 the series of his neighbors; and was himself attacked by veloped in "Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793." "Edgar Huntly; or, the Adventures of a Sleep-Walker." The second part of "Arthur Mervyn" apromances was closed with "Jane Tal- 1801; and in romances was closed with "Jane Talbot." In 1801 he returned to Philajected the plan of an "Annual Register," delphia, and edited the "Literary Magazine and American Register." He prothe first work of the kind in the United States, and edited the first volume of it in 1806. He died Feb. 22, 1810.