History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . th marked favor by educational people ofall sections. In 1890 he was married toMary Alden Towell, daughter of Charles , of Minneapolis. They have threechildren: Ruth, Juliet, and Marion. is a member of the Congregationalchurcli. His success as a teacher places himin the highest rank of the professit)n, and jus-tifies the conclusion that a training abroadis not an absolute necessity to the highestelBciency.
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . th marked favor by educational people ofall sections. In 1890 he was married toMary Alden Towell, daughter of Charles , of Minneapolis. They have threechildren: Ruth, Juliet, and Marion. is a member of the Congregationalchurcli. His success as a teacher places himin the highest rank of the professit)n, and jus-tifies the conclusion that a training abroadis not an absolute necessity to the highestelBciency. BKACKEN, Henry Martyn, is secretaryof the Minnesota state board of health, and amedical practitioner at Minneapolis. He is anative of Iennsylvauia, and was born atNoblestown, near Pittsburg, February 27,1854. His father, William C. Bracken, wasa physician and practiced his profession inthat state. For many generations back hisancestors had followed agricultural Bracken, a true type of the Englishyeoman, settled near Wilmington, Del., in1702, and he is credited with being thefounder of the Bracken family in this coun HISTORY OF THE GUBAT HKNKV M. lUtACKEN. try. The iiiaideii name of the mother of thesubject of this sketch was Electa Alvords were amoug- the early settlersof Massachusetts, dating back to about , too, were faiouers. Henry receivedhis early education in the common schools ofhis native town. When thirteen years ofage he entered Elders Eidge Academy inWestern Pennsylvania. This institutionwas for many \ears a prominent preparatoryschool for Jefferson College. It was a de-nominational academy, and was conductedby Kev. Alexander Donaldson, a Presbyter-ian clergyman, an uncle, by marriage, of At the time of his fathers death,in 187li, he was preparing to enter the sopho-more class at Irinceton, but was compelledto give ujj this plan. He taught in the pub-lic schools the following winter, and then, in1873, took
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