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Chief Justice Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Dr

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Death: June 25, 1816 (67-68)
Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
Place of Burial: Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States
Immediate Family:

Husband of Sabina Brackenridge
Father of Rep. Henry Marie Brackenridge and Alexander Brackenridge

Occupation: Judge-Founded Pittsburgh Gazette and Pittsburgh Academy
Managed by: Tamás Flinn Caldwell-Gilbert
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About Chief Justice Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Dr

DAR Ancestor #: A013937

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Henry_Brackenridge

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.

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Chief Justice Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Dr's Timeline

1748
1748
Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
1786
May 11, 1786
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
1792
January 23, 1792
1816
June 25, 1816
Age 68
Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
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Old Graveyard, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States