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Baugher, Henry Louis

educator, clergyman, journalist, author, was born Aug. 6, 1840, in Gettysburg, Pa. For twenty-four years he was professor of Greek in the Pennsylvania college; and has also filled the same chair in the Howard university of Washington, D. C. He has filled pastorates in Morristown, Pa.; Indianapolis, Ind., and Omaha, Neb. He is now the editor of the Augsburg Sunday-School Teacher, and The Lutheran World; and is the author of Annotations on the Gospel According to St. Luke.

BAUMBACH, was MORITZ WILHELM HERMAN VON, diplomat, banker, born Jan. 13, 1834, in Prussia. He has been the imperial and royal consul of Austro-Hungary; consul of Saxony; and imperial German vice-consul. He is now the president of the German Exchange bank of Milwaukee, Wis.

BAUMGARDT, BERNHARD RICHARD, astronomist, was born May 19, 1862, in Liverpool, England. He was educated in Sweden, and after graduating spent five years in traveling around the world. From a love of mathematics he took up astronomy, and devotes much of his time to that science in his private observatory in Los Angeles, Cal. He gives public lectures on astronomy, mathematics and philosophy, and has attained a national reputation. In 1891-93 he was secretary of the Oregon Academy of Sciences; and since 1894 has been secretary of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, in which institution he is also chairman of 'the astronomical section. He is also a successful business man, and is interested in many public enterprises.

BAUVAIS, A., governor. He was acting governor of Louisiana in 1830.