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...Bruce Brashear...
Sirs: You state in TIME, March 7, that John A. Brashear, former distinguished astronomer of Pittsburgh was unknown to you.† We who knew him feel that you missed much. When his wife preceded him in death he wrote this timely epitaph: "Too often we've studied the stars together, to have any fear of the night." I've wondered whether anything was so poetically and appropriately written of him. when he went away from his beloved Pittsburgh-"into the night." MRS. JAMES A. HUSTON...
...believe your correspondent refers to John A. Brashear, distinguished astronomer and scientist, who died April 8, 1920, at Pittsburgh, Pa. A year prior to his death, he was voted the most useful citizen of Pennsylvania. Refer to any encyclopedia for further information concerning Dr. Brashear.* Prior to the death of Dr. Brashear, it was considered that no banquet was complete without having on its roster one of the three prominent J. B's of Pittsburgh: James Francis Burke, famed Pittsburgh lawyer, Judge Buffington of the Circuit Court of Appeals, and Uncle John Brashear, as he was affectionately known...
...Subscriber Elizabeth Brand, who listed John Brashares (unknown to TIME) as a famed "J. B." state whether John A. Brashear was meant...
This class, which numbered 115 men and was one of the earliest to pass the 100 mark, contained many notable men, of whom the following named, twenty-five in number, are now alive: John Bigelow, Charles Lee Bixby, Allan Foster Boone, Herman Francis Brashear, Elihu Chauncey, John Doggett Cobb, Charles Alonzo Cooper, Frank Warren Hackett, Norwood Penrose Hallowell, Alpheus Holmes Hardy, Oliver Wendell Holmes, David Francis Lincoln, Joseph Hetherington McDaniels, James Rundlet May, George Herman Powers, John Ritchie, Wesley Caleb Sawyer, Joseph Herbert Senter, Edward William Sanborn, James Kent Stone, Richard Stone, Charles Storrow, James Putnam Walker, Stephen Williams Whitney...