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Barton, Richard W – Bass, Lyman K

Barton, Richard W

legislator, congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1843; also served in the state legislature; and was the first president of the Valley Agricultural society. He died March 15, 1859, in Frederick county, Va.

Barton, Samuel

congressman, was born in New York. He served three years in the assembly of that state; and was a representative in congress from 1835 to 1837.

Barton, Thomas

clergyman, was born in 1730, in Monaghan, Ireland. He was for nearly twenty years rector of St.

James church, Lancaster, Pa. He died May 25, 1780, in New York.

Bartram, John

botanist, author, was born March 23, 1699, in Darby, Pa.

He was a shrewd, careful observer whom Linnæus termed the greatest natural botanist in the world, and was called the father of American botany. He was the author of Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, etc., as made by Mr. John Bartram in his Travels from Pennsylvania to Onondaga, etc. A similar record of travels in eastern Florida appeared in 1766. He died Sept. 22, 1777, in Kingsessing, Pa.

Bartram, Joseph Burr

merchant, was born May 17, 1839, in Black Rock, Conn. He is extensively engaged in the importation of sugar from the West Indies, having plantations on the islands of St. Croix and San Domingo, and controlling the product of several others.

Bartram, William

botanist, author, was born Feb. 9, 1739, in Kingsessing, Pa. He was a botanist and traveler of Pennsylvania; and the author of Travel Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, etc.; and Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians. He died July 22, 1823, in Kingsessing, Pa.

Barwig, Charles

merchant, congressman, was born March 19, 1837, in Germany. He emigrated to America with his parents in 1845, locating at Milwaukee. He graduated from the Spencerian business college in 1857; located at Mayville in 1865; and was elected to the fiftyfirst, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses.

Bascom, Henry Bidleman

bishop, author, was born May 27, 1796, in Hancock, N. Y. He was a bishop of the methodist church; and the author of Sermons from the Pulpit; Mental and Moral Science; and Methodism and Slavery. He died Sept. 8, 1850, in Louisville, Ky.

Bashford, Herbert

author, poet, was born in 1871, in Sioux City, Iowa.

A poem written at the age of fifteen was accepted by the Critic, and his poems have appeared in several standard works.

BASHFORD, JAMES WHITFORD, clergyman, college president, was born in 1849, in Fayette, Wis. He has held various pastorates, had frequent calls to take up educational work, and in 1889 was elected president of the Ohio Wesleyan university.

Bass, Edward

bishop, was born Nov. 23, 1726, in Dorchester, Mass. He was consecrated in Philadelphia in 1797, and his jurisdiction extended over the churches in Rhode Island and New Hampshire. He died Sept. 10, 1803, in Newburyport, Mass.

Bass, Josiah Luster

merchant, was born Feb. 20, 1853, in DeKalb county, Tenn. He established a large dry goods house in Griffin, Rome and Atlanta; and has been a prominent leader in public industrial affairs.

Bass, Lyman K

lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1836, in Alden, N. Y. He was elected district attorney for Erie county in 1865, for three years; and was re-elected in 1868; and served until 1872. He was renominated and was elected to the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses.