Hugh Henry Brackenridge

Hugh Henry Brackenridge was born in Scotland in 1748 and arrived at the age of five in York County, Pennsylvania. A schoolmaster at a very young age, he entered Princeton, where he became friends with Philip Freneau and James Madison, served as a chaplain in the Continental Army, and then turned to law. Settled in Pittsburgh in 1781, he helped found the city's first newspaper and the academy from which its university would emerge. During the Whiskey Rebellion, he tried to mediate between the insurgents and the government and became suspect to both sides. A judge on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1799, he died in Carlisle in 1816.

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• NovelModern ChivalryHugh Henry Brackenridge · 1792LiteraturePublic domain