John A. Bridgland

Colonel John Alexander Bridgland (December 3, 1826 − July 29, 1890) was an American diplomat, businessman and soldier. He was a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and served as consul of the United States to the port city of Le Havre in France. Bridgland also was in the wholesale tobacco business, the street railway business, and he was in the horse breeding and importing business in Indiana.

He also went by the names J.A. Bridgeland, and John Alexander Bridgeland. Provided by Wikipedia