Hugh henry brackenridge biography of rory gilmore
My follow-up project concerns Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry and the function of satire in the early Republic as well as theories and methods of....
Hugh Henry Brackenridge
American judge
Hugh Henry Brackenridge | |
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portrait by Gilbert Stuart | |
| Born | 1748 |
| Died | 25 June 1816 (aged 67–68) |
| Occupation | Writer |
Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748 – June 25, 1816) was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
A frontier citizen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, he founded both the Pittsburgh Academy, now the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Gazette, still operating today as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
BRACKENRIDGE, Hugh Henry.
Life
Brackenridge was born in Campbeltown a small town on the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland. In 1753, when he was 5, his family emigrated to York County, Pennsylvania, near the Maryland border, then a frontier.[1][2] At age 15 he was head of a free school in Maryland.
At age 19 he entered the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, where he joined Philip Morin Freneau, James Madiso