Sangamon County IL Archives Biographies.....Brayman, Mason 1813 - 1895
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Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary

BRAYMAN, Mason, lawyer, was born at Buffalo, N.Y., May 23, 1813. He was reared 
on a farm, learned the printers trade and in 1834-35 edited the Buffalo 
Bulletin. He was admitted to the bar in 1836, and removed to Monroe, Mich. He 
served as city attorney of Monroe in 1838, and in 1841 edited a newspaper. In 
1842 he established himself in the practice of law at Springfield, Ill. In 
1843, as a special commissioner under the government, he adjusted the Mormon 
disturbances at Nauvoo and was employed as counsel in the prosecution of the 
offenders, and conducted the negotiations which resulted in the withdrawal of 
the Mormons from Illinois. He revised and published the statutes of Illinois 
in 1844-45. He became the attorney of the Illinois Central railroad in 1851, 
and afterwards a promoter of railroad enterprises throughout Missouri, 
Arkansas, and the southwest. He joined the Federal army in 1861, as major of 
the 29th Illinois volunteers, became colonel in the following year, and fought 
in the battles of Belmont, Fort Donelson, and Shiloh. For especial gallantry 
at these engagements he was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers. He was 
in command at Bolivar, Tenn., when General Van Dorns attack was so effectively 
repulsed. He re-organized the returned Ohio regiments at Camp Dennison; was in 
command at Natchez from July, 1864, to May, 1865; was appointed presiding 
officer of the commission which met to examine into the cotton claims, and was 
mustered out of service with the rank of major-general of volunteers at the 
close of hostilities, when he revived railroad interests in the south. In 1872-
73 he edited the Illinois State Journal; in 1873 he removed to Ripon, Wis., 
and practised law until 1877, when he was appointed by President Hayes 
governor of Idaho. At the expiration of his term in 1880 he resumed the 
practice of his profession at Ripon, Wis. He subsequently settled in Kansas 
City, Mo., where he died Feb. 27, 1895.

Additional Comments:
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904.

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