Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Combination of steel & stipple engraving - Superb quality original antique print.
- Year of printing: not indicated in the print. Actual: 1877
- Publisher: American Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, Cincinnati and New York.
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
- Dimensions: 8 x 10.5
inches (20 x 26 cm), including blank margins around the image.
- Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
- Note:
1. Engraved signature under the image, 2. Green 'border' around the
print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was
photographed. 3. The detail of the print is much sharper than the photo of the print.
Short Genealogy Info:
- HON.
GEORGE BRYANT: born Febryary 11, 1832 at Templeton, Worcester
county, Massachusetts. his father was George W. Bryant, and his
mother Eunice Norcross ; he was educated at Norwich University, in the
same class with Gens. Dodge and Ransom, and went through the full
course of studies; he preferred the profession of law, and after
leaving the university, he read law with the Hon. Amasa Norcross, at
Fitchburg, Mass., and was admitted to the bar in 1856, at Worcester,
Mass., and shortly after moved to Madison, Wis., and formed a
partnership in the practice of his profession, with Myron H. Orton,
which he continued until 1861.
- He was Captain of the Madison Guards, in 1860, the first
company to offer their services to the Government, at the commencement
of the rebellion ; this company served five months in the 1st W. V. I.,
at the termination of which it was mustered out of service, and Capt.
Bryant returned home, and was shortly afterward commissioned Colonel of
the 12th W. V. I., with which he went to the Indian Territory, marching
across the plains west of Ft. Riley ; returning, they descended the
Mississippi River to Columbus ; thence by railroad to Corinth, where
they joined Gen. Grant's army; was in all the battles his regiment
participated in; this regiment was on the celebrated Meridian march,
and went with Sherman to the sea; upon their return to Louisville, Ky.,
they were discharged from the service.
- Upon Col. Bryant's return to Wisconsin, he retired to his
farm near Madison, and is engaged in raising fine blooded stock,
especially horses and cattle. He was elected County Judge in 1866,
again in 1870, and again in 1874; in the latter year he was also
elected State Senator. In religion, he is a Unitarian, in politics,
first a Whig, afterward a Republican. Was married, Sept. 27, 1858, to
Miss Susie A. Gibson, whose ancestors were the first settlers in
Fitchburg, Mass., and were participants in the war of the Revolution,
and had previously fought the Indians ; his ancestors were Irish, and
came to this country shortly after the landing of the Pilgrims; they
were also engaged in the Revolutionary struggle. Col. Bryant was a
member of the National Chicago Convention of 1880, and was one of the
three hundred and six who always voted for U. S. Grant in that
memorable convention ; he has been Quartermaster General of Wisconsin,
since January, 1877, and Secretary of the State Agricultural Society
since Jan
uary 1, 1878.
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