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Bass, William C – Batcheller, George S
Bass, William C
clergyman, college president, was born Jan. 13, 1831, in Augusta, Ga. He entered the ministry of the methodist church in 1852, and has given his later life to the work of education in Georgia. He became a professor in the Wesleyan Female college in 1859, and succeeded to the presidency in 1874.
Bassett, Arthur
merchant, was born Jan. 17, 1851, in Fairfield, Mich. In 1882 he was elected great commander of the Order of the Knights of the Maccabees, at Port Huron, Mich., where he is a wholesale druggist and successful man of affairs.
Bassett, Burwell
congressman, was born in New Kent county, Va. He was a representative in congress from that state in 1805-13, from 1815 to 1819, and from 1821 to 1831.
Bassett, Carroll Phillips
civil engineer, author, was born Feb. 27, 1862, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was president of the New Jersey Sanitary association from 1892-93; is chief engineer of the Commonwealth Water company; and has designed and constructed the waterworks, the sewerage, and sewage purification works of many towns in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware. He is the author of The Conservation of Streams, and Inland Sewage Disposal.
Bassett, Homer Franklin
librarian, was born Sept. 2, 1826, in Florida, Mass. In 1872 he was appointed librarian of the Silas Bronson library, of Waterbury, Conn.
Bassett, J. Anthony
educator, was born Dec. 25, 1850, in Denmark, N. Y. He received a thorough education in the Lowville academy and the Rochester university. For twelve years he was in charge of the departments of science and mathematics in the old Gouverneur Wesleyan seminary; and in 1887 assumed the principalship of the Richfield Springs Union schools.
Bassett, James
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 31, 1834, in Canada. This eminent clergyman has filled various pastorates in Pennsylvania and New York. He is the author of a number of works, and has contributed extensively to church literature.
Bassett, Spencer John
educator, author, was born Sept. 10, 1867, in Tarborough, N. C. He is a successful educator and the author of the following works: The Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina; Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina; The Regulators of North Carolina; Suffrage in North Carolina; and Anti-Slavery Leaders in North Carolina.
Bastin, Edson Sewell
educator, author, was born in Wisconsin. In 1893 he was elected to the chair of materia medica and botany in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. He is the author of Lectures on Botany and Materia Medica; Elements of Botany; The College Botany; and Vegetable History.
Batchelder, John Putnam
educator, physician, surgeon, author, was born Aug. 6, 1784, in Wilton, N. H. He was a successful surgeon, and performed many operations of great importance, and requiring extraordinary skill and daring.
He was president of the Academy of Medicine, and of the New York Medical association in 1858. He published Thoughts on the Connection of Life, Mind, and Matter, and other works. He died April 8, 1868, in New York city.
Batchelder, Samuel
manufacturer, inventor, author, was born June 8, 1784, in Jaffrey, N. H. In 1808 he began the manufacture of cotton at New Ipswich. Among his inventions, that of the dynamometer, for ascertaining the power for driving machinery, first used in the York mills in 1837, is perhaps the greatest. He is the author of History of the Cotton Manufacture in the United States.
He died Feb. 5, 1879, in Cambridge, Mass.
Batcheller, George S
soldier, statesman, was born July 25, 1836, in Batchellerville, N. Y. He reorganized the militia of New York and served as inspector-general from 1865 to 1869. He was appointed to represent the United States at the international tribunal of Egypt, and in 1883 was elected president of that body. In 1889 he was appointed consul-general to Egypt by President Harrison.