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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.
Hugh henry brackenridge biography of michael jackson
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