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Bayly, Thomas Henry – Beal, William James

Bayly, Thomas Henry

soldier, legislator, jurist, was born in 1810 in Accomac county, Va. While a member of the Virginia legislature he was elected by that body a brigadier-general of the militia of eastern Virginia; and subsequently was elected judge of the circuit superior court of law. In 1844 he was elected to the national house of representatives from the Accomac district, and continued, by successive elections, a member of the house for twelve years. He died June 22, 1856.

Bayne, Thomas M

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born June 14, 1836, in Allegheny, Pa. He took part in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. He was district attorney for Allegheny county in 1870; and was elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses. He died in Allegheny, Pa.

Beach, Alfred E

inventor, journalist, was born in 1826 in Springfield, Mass. He received an academic education, and in 1846, with Orson D. Munn, founded the firm of Munn and Co., and they became proprietors of The Scientific American. For almost fifty years he has been active in the editorship of this newspaper and in the extensive patent business of the firm. In 1847 he invented a typewriting machine.

Beach, Clifton Bailey

lawyer, manufacturer, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1845, in Sharon, Ohio. He removed to Cleveland in 1857, where he has since resided; was educated in the common schools and Western Reserve college, class of 1871; was admitted to the bar in 1872, but retired from active practice in 1884, having become extensively engaged in manufacturing enterprises. He was elected to the fifty-fourth, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Beach, John N

merchant, was born Aug. 1, 1837, in Lodi, N. Y. He located in New York city; entered the dry-goods business; and has been a member of the present firm of Tefft, Weller and Co. since 1879. He is vice-president of the Mercantile Accident Insurance company, and president of the Dry-Goods Chronicle Publishing association.

Beach, Myron Walter

soldier, lawyer, was born Aug. 27, 1844, in Lagrange, Mich. During the civil war he was a member of company I, first regiment Michigan sharpshooters. In 1870 he was admitted to the bar, and has attained success in his profession at Carroll, Iowa. He has been county superintendent of schools and mayor of his city; and has filled various other public positions of trust.

Beach, William Austin

lawyer, was born Aug. 22, 1842, in Baldwinsville, N. Y. He has attained success as a prominent lawyer; and in 1885 received the appointment of collector of internal revenue for the twenty-first district of New York.

Beal, Abraham

philanthropist, was born about 1803 in Chatham, England. He became very familiar with the criminal laws of New York and other states, and in 1863 assumed the general agency of the New York Prison association. He was for many years an efficient officer of the New York Port society. He died Feb. 25, 1872, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Beal, George Lafayette

soldier, was born May 21, 1825, in Norway, Maine. He left Portland in 1861 colonel of the tenth Maine regiment. He was appointed by the president brigadiergeneral of volunteers in 1864, and was mustered out of the service in 1866.

Beal, William James

educator, botanist, author, was born March 11, 1833, in Adrian, Mich. He has taught natural history, science, botany, and horticulture in the leading agricultural colleges in America; and since 1870 has been professor of botany and forestry in the Agricultural college of Michigan. He has filled numerous positions of honor; is the author of The New Botany; Grasses of North America; and has contributed extensively to current literature.