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Hugh Henry Brackenridge
portrait by Gilbert Stuart
Born	1748
Died	25 June 1816  (aged 67–68)
Occupation	Writer

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.

Hugh Henry Brackenridge was a Scottish-born Pennsylvanian preacher, politician, writer, and jurist, who – though not strictly a Founding Father himself.

Hugh Henry Brackenridge was a Scottish-born Pennsylvanian preacher, politician, writer, and jurist, who – though not strictly a Founding Father himself.

Brackenridge, who lived in many parts of Pennsylvania throughout his life, was an early American teacher, writer, lawyer, and Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice.

Hugh Henry Brackenridge ( – June 25, ) was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Hugh Henry Brackenridge was born in Scotland in His parents immigrated to.

The Life and Writings of Hugh Henry Brackenridge is a comprehensive biography of the American writer, lawyer, and judge, Hugh Henry Brackenridge.

Life

Brackenridge was born in Campbeltown a small town on the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland. In 1753, when he was 5, his family emigrated to York County, Pennsylvania, near the Maryland border, then a frontier.^[1][2] 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 Madiso