Old Photograph Fishermen Campbeltown Scotland

Old photograph of fishermen by the harbour in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. Hugh Henry Brackenridge was born in 1748 in Kintyre, a village near Campbeltown. He was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. In 1753, when he was 5, his family emigrated to York County, Pennsylvania, America, near the Maryland border, then a frontier. At age 15 he was head of a free school in Maryland. At age 19 he entered the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, where he joined Philip Morin Freneau, James Madison, and others in forming the American Whig Society to counter the conservative Cliosophic, or Tory. In 1772 he became headmaster of an academy in Somerset County, Maryland, with Freneau as his assistant. He went back to Princeton for a Master's degree, and then served in George Washington's army as a chaplain, preaching fiery patriotic sermons to the soldiers of the American Revolutionary War. He was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1780 at age 32. In 1781 Pittsburgh was a village of 400 inhabitants, mostly Scots, like himself, Scots Irish, and Germans. He was elected in 1786 to the Pennsylvania state assembly. In December 1799 Governor Thomas McKean appointed him a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Brackenridge died June 25, 1816 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The Allegheny County borough of Brackenridge, Pennsylvania, is named for his son, the lawyer, judge, and writer Henry Marie Brackenridge, born 1786, died 1871.



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