Saturday, August 23, 2008

Hugh Henry Brackenridge

Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816)

Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816)

Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748 - June 25, 1816) was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. A frontier citizen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, he founded both the Pittsburgh Academy, now the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Gazette, still operating today as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Brackenridge was born in Kintyre, Scotland, a village near Campbeltown.



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