biography
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Brackenridge, Hugh Henry
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1748–1816)
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| biography:
| Writer and judge, born in Campbeltown, SWC Scotland, UK. He was brought to the USA at age five. He studied at Princeton, became a chaplain, and wrote two patriotic dramas during the American Revolution. He turned to the study and practice of law before settling in Pittsburgh. He later helped establish the first newspaper and bookstore in frontier Pittsburgh. A Pennsylvania assemblyman and Supreme Court justice, he is best known for Modern Chivalry (1792–1815), regarded as the first novel based in the American West and still a pertinent satire of the social and political conditions of the era. |
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