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Bache, Theophylact

merchant, colonist, was born Jan. 17, 1734, in England. In 1774 he was elected the fifth president of the New York Chamber of Commerce. He died Oct. 30, 1807, in New York city.

Bacheller, Irving

journalist, author, was born in 1859 in New York. He is a journalist of New York city; and the author of The Master of Silence, a romance; and The Still House of O'Darrow, a novel.

Bachman, John

naturalist, author, was born Feb. 4, 1790, in Dutchess county, N. Y. He was a naturalist of Charleston, where he was pastor of a Lutheran church, 1815-74. He assisted Audubon, preparing the greater part of the text of The Quadrupeds of North America, and wrote several religious and scientific works. He was the author of Two Letters on Heredity; and Defence of Luther and the Reformation. He died Feb. 25, 1874, in Charleston, S. C.

Bachman, Reuben K

educator, merchant, congressman, was born Aug. 6, 1834, in Williams, Pa. He spent his early boyhood upon his father's farm; received a common school education; and followed the vocation of teaching in his early manhood. Subsequently, he entered into the mercantile and milling business at Durham, Pa.; and was elected to the fortysixth congress as a democrat.

Bachman, Solomon

manufacturer, was born in 1827 in Germany. He engaged in the manufacture of balmoral skirts, and bought a mill at Paterson, N. J., with machinery to make yarns, and power looms to weave skirts and shawls. In 1877 he bought the Merrimack woolen mill in Lowell, Mass., which he still continues to run.

Backus, Azel

educator, clergyman, college president, was born Oct. 13, 1765, in Norwich, Conn. He was licensed to preach in 1789, and in 1791 became the successor of Dr. Bellamy at Bethlehem, Conn., where he also carried on a successful school. Here he remained until, at the foundation of Hamilton college, Clinton, N. Y., in 1812, he was chosen its first president. He died Dec. 9, 1817.

Backus, Henry Clinton

lawyer, was born May 31, 1848, in Utica, N. Y.

In 1891 he was chairman of the delegation of the thirteenth assembly district to the republican county committee of New York city and county; and held the leadership of the district for one year. In 1893 he consented to stand for the New York constitutional convention.

Backus, Henry T

lawyer, jurist, was born in Norwich, Conn. He received a liberal education; adopted the profession of the law; and removed to Detroit, Mich., where he was for many years devoted to his profession. He was subsequently appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Arizona.

Backus, Isaac

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 9, 1724, in Norwich, Conn.

He was a baptist clergyman of Rhode Island; and the author of A History of New England, with Particular Reference to the Baptists. He died Nov. 20, 1806.

Backus, Truman Jay

educator, college president, was born Feb. 11, 1842, in Locke, N. Y. In 1867 he was elected to fill the chair of rhetoric and English in Vassar college, which office he held for sixteen years. He accepted a call to the presidency of Packer collegiate institute of Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1883.

Backus, William Vernon

lawyer, was born Aug. 24, 1860, in Cleveland, Ohio.

He received his education in the public schools of his native city; in business colleges, and received private instruction in foreign languages. He has attained success as an able lawyer of Cleveland, in which city he was a member of the board of education during 1892-97, and its president in 1895-96.