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Beauchamp, Jennie B – Beck, John Brodhead

Beauchamp, Jennie B

reformer, author, was born July 9, 1833, in Nelson county, Ky. She is the author of Maplehurst; Digest of Parliamentary Laws; and A Collection of Responsive Bible Readings. The pen of this writer has been especially devoted to reform work, and in 1883 she was elected state president of the Texas Woman's Christian Temperance union.

Beauchamp, Lou J

journalist, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 14, 1851, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been telegraph, news and literary editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star, and has been connected with various leading dailies. Since 1877 he has been principally engaged as a temperance lecturer, and has been called The Western Gough. He is the author of two books: This, That and The Other; and Sunshine.

Beaumont, Andrew

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1837; and was appointed, in 1846, commissioner of public buildings for the District of Columbia.

He died Oct. 30, 1853, in Wilkesbarre, Pa.

Beaumont, Betty Bentley

merchant, author, was born Aug. 9, 1828, in England. She was the only child of Joseph Bentley, the great educational reformer, and author of thirty-three books to improve the methods of education. She became a successful merchant of Woodville, Miss.; and is the author of Twelve Years of My Life; and A Business Woman's Journal.

Beauvais, Armand

sixth governor of Louisiana, was a creole of that state.

He became governor by constitutional right, being president of the state and exofficio lieutenant-governor at the time of Governor Derbigny's death. He was justice of the peace in 1810; was elected to the state legislature in 1814, to which position he was afterward twice re-elected. During 1822-30 he was a continuous member of the state senate.

Bebb, William

governor, was born in 1802 in Butler county, Ohio. He was governor of Ohio from 1846 to 1848. He died Oct. 24, 1873, in Rockford, Ill. many.

Beck, Charles

educator, legislator, was born Aug. 19, 1798, in Heidelberg, Germany. In 1832 he was elected to the chair of Latin language and literature at Cambridge, and, on his retirement from that professorship in 1850, he devoted himself to literary pursuits and classical studies. In 1863 he published The Manuscripts of the Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, described and collated. He was for two years a representative of Cambridge in the state legislature. He died March 19, 1866, in Cambridge, Mass.

Beck, Erasmus W

lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 21, 1833, in Mc- Donough, Ga. He was educated at Mercer university, in that state; was admitted to the bar in Georgia in 1856; and practiced his profession there. He was elected to the forty-second congress to fill a vacancy.

Beck, George

poet, was born in 1749 in England. He wrote short poems, made poetic translations from Anacreon, Homer, Virgil, and Horace, and in 1812 published Observations on the Comet. In 1795 he served as a scout in Wayne's campaign against the Indians. He died Dec. 24, 1812, in Lexington, Ky.

Beck, James B

lawyer, United States senator, was born Feb. 13, 1822, in Scotland. In 1867 he was elected a representative from Kentucky to the fortieth congress, and was re-elected to the three succeeding congresses. He was elected a United States senator from Kentucky for the term of six years, from 1877; and was re-elected for a second term of six years. He died May 3, 1890, in Washington, D. C.

Beck, John Brodhead

physician, author, was born Sept. 18, 1794, in Schenectady, N. Y. He was the author of Medical Essays; and with his brother, T. Romeyn Beck, produced the great work on Medical Jurisprudence. He was also the author of Infant Therapeutics; and Historical Sketch of the State of Medicine in the Colonies. He died April 9, 1851, in Rhinebeck, N. Y.