Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748 – June 25, 1816) was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. A frontier citizen...
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Pittsburgh in 1786, he was educated by his father, the writer and judge Hugh Henry Brackenridge, private tutors, and at the Pittsburgh Academy, now known as the...
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area. Pitt traces its roots to the Pittsburgh Academy founded by Hugh Henry Brackenridge in 1787. While the city was still on the edge of the American frontier...
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Washington Brackenridge (1832–1920), Texas philanthropist Henry Marie Brackenridge (1786–1871), writer, congressman Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748–1816)...
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Henry Brackenridge – Our local Founding Father". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved January 23, 2023. Crocco, Stephen (1992). "Hugh Henry Brackenridge: Priest...
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frontier in the final years of the Revolutionary War. In 1782, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, a Pittsburgh lawyer and strong supporter of the national government...
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minimal level of involvement from "not quite a Founding Father" Hugh Henry Brackenridge of western Pennsylvania. The poem was first read at their graduation...
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its life in a log cabin on what was then the nation's frontier, Hugh Henry Brackenridge sought and obtained a charter for the school from the state legislature...
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The Pittsburgh convention was dominated by moderates such as Hugh Henry Brackenridge, who hoped to prevent the outbreak of violence. The convention...
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Notable playwrights from the United States include: Hugh Henry Brackenridge William Dunlap Robert Hunter Royall Tyler Mercy Otis Warren George Aiken Nathaniel...
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O'Regan, His servant is a rambling, satirical American novel by Hugh Henry Brackenridge, a Pittsburgh writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Pennsylvania...
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John Temple, first British consul general to United States, 1785 Hugh Henry Brackenridge – early American writer, Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice, and...
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through poetry. Poets such as John Trumbull, Philip Freneau and Hugh Henry Brackenridge wrote of nationalist ideas about an independent United States....
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minister and author in Gaelic and English. Free Church Moderator Hugh Henry Brackenridge, American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Pennsylvania...
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satire and picaresque mock-epic coauthored by Philip Freneau and Hugh Henry Brackenridge while both men were juniors at the College of New Jersey (later...
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University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 12 May 2016. Brackenridge, Hugh Henry (26 April 1796). "Hugh Henry Brackenridge to Alexander Addison" (PDF). University of...
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James Madison, Aaron Burr, Philip Freneau, William Bradford, and Hugh Henry Brackenridge. From among his students came 37 judges (three of whom became justices...
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already written the poetical History of the Prophet Jonah, and, with Hugh Henry Brackenridge, the prose satire Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca. Following...
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formed on June 24, 1769 by James Madison, Philip M. Freneau, and Hugh Henry Brackenridge; the Cliosophic Society formed on June 8, 1770 by Nathan Perkins...
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Lodge. John Bracken (1883–1969), PC, 11th Premier of Manitoba Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748–1816), American writer, lawyer, judge, and Pennsylvania Supreme...
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Gazette, first published on July 29, 1786, with the encouragement of Hugh Henry Brackenridge. It was the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains...
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the Commonwealth System of Higher Education in 1966. Founded by Hugh Henry Brackenridge as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787, the University of Pittsburgh is...
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World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. Of the picaresque genre, Hugh Henry Brackenridge published Modern Chivalry in 1792–1815; Tabitha Gilman Tenney wrote...
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veterans. The first landowners in the area were James Robinson and Hugh Henry Brackenridge, purchasing parcels in 1799 and 1792 respectively. At the time...
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Robert Munford, and for plays about heroism, as in the works of Hugh Henry Brackenridge. The postwar period saw the birth of American social comedy in...
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Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna set up a newsagent's business in London that will become the bookselling chain WHSmith. Hugh Henry Brackenridge –...
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Israel established the paper and issued it from a building owned by Hugh Henry Brackenridge. Israel's columns promoted the Democratic-Republican politics of...
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Writings of the Most Celebrated Geniuses in Poetry Philip Freneau and Hugh Henry Brackenridge – Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca (approximate year of composition...
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traveling upriver. The village began to develop vital institutions. Hugh Henry Brackenridge, a Pittsburgh resident and state legislator, introduced a bill...
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identified late-colonial school site known for the state of Maryland. Hugh Henry Brackenridge, later founder of the University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Gazette...
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