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Author: Brackenridge, Hugh Henry

Biography:

Brackenridge, Hugh Henry (1748-1816: WBIS)

Born Hugh Montgomery Breckenridge near Campbeltown in Scotland, the son of a poor farmer, he emigrated to Pennsylvania with his family at the age of five. He became a schoolteacher in his teens, then attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), where he met Philip Freneau (q.v.), his collaborator in The Rising Glory of America. After graduating in 1771, he went on to take an MA in Divinity and served as a chaplain in Washington's army. In 1778 he turned to the study of law and after being called to the bar, opened a law office in Pittsburgh; in 1799, he was made a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, a post he held until his death. Besides his literary works he founded and contributed to several magazines, and was the author of Law Miscellanies (1814). (ANBO 23 Dec. 2017; Daniel Marder, Hugh Henry Brackenridge [1967])

 

Other Names:

  • H. H. Brackenridge
 

Books written (8):

Carlisle [PA]: printed by Alexander and Phillips, 1806