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Beca, Leonora – Beckwourth, James P

Beca, Leonora

educator, author, was born in Georgia. For five years she was the president of the Capitol Female college of Atlanta, Ga., and now fills the chair of Latin and Greek in the Gardner institute of New York city. She is the author of a work of prose and verse.

Beck, Paul

philanthropist, was born in 1760 in Philadelphia, Pa. He acquired a large fortune in the wine trade, and for several years filled the office of port warden of Philadelphia. He was one of the founders of the Philadelphia academy of fine arts, a benefactor of the deaf and dumb institution of that city; president of the American Sunday School union; and a contributor to various other charitable and religious undertakings. He died Dec. 22, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Beck, Theodric Romeyn

author, was born April 11, 1791, in Schenectady, N. Y. He was a medical writer of Albany; and the author of Elements of Medical Jurisprudence, with J. B. Beck, his brother. He died Nov. 19, 1855, in Utica, N. Y.

Becker, Cynthia Ann

poet. She is a successful writer of Lincoln, Neb.; and her poems constantly appear in the western press.

Becker, Philip

merchant, public official, was born in April, 1830, in Germany. He attained success as a merchant in Buffalo, N. Y., and has retired from active business. He served three terms as mayor of the city of Buffalo; and since 1869 has been president of the Buffalo German Insurance company. He was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1876.

Beckley, John Newton

educator, lawyer, railroad president, was born Dec. 30, 1848, in Clarendon, N. Y. From 1870- 71 he became principal of the public schools of Lanesboro, Minn.; and at Rushford from 1871-72. In 1882 he was elected city attorney of Rochester, N. Y.; and in 1889 was elected president of a railroad; and in 1892 became president of the street railroad association of the state of New York at Rochester.

Beckwith, Amos

soldier, was born in 1830 in Vermont. He was graduated at West Point in 1850, and served in the Seminole war. He was brevetted brigadier-general in the United States army in 1865, and promoted lieutenant-colonel on the general staff in 1874.

Beckwith, John Watrus

bishop, was born Feb. 9, 1831, in Raleigh, N. C.

At the close of the war he became rector of Trinity church, New Orleans, and while there was elected protestant episcopal bishop of Georgia. He died Nov. 24, 1890, in Atlanta, Ga.

Beckwith, Philo Daniel

was born March 6, 1825, in Pike, N. Y. In 1871 he invented the Round Oak stove for heating purposes, which has since revolutionized the stove trade of the United States. He was elected mayor of Dowagiac, Mich., four times.

Beckwith, Mrs. Sue E

poet, was born in 1843, in DeKalb county, Ill. She is a writer of Audale, Kan.; and the author of the poem entitled A Legend of Arkansas.

Beckwith, Walter Parker

educator, was born Aug. 27, 1851, in Lempster, N. H. In 1871 he graduated from the Kimball Union academy of Meriden, N. H.; and from Tufts college in 1876.

For two years he was principal of the Chicopee Falls high school; and during 1878-96 was superintendent of schools at Adams, Mass. Since 1896 he has been connected with the State Normal school of Salem, Mass.

Beckwourth, James P

pioneer, was born about 1800 in Virginia. He was a mulatto. About 1850 he discovered the pass through the Sierra Nevada mountains that bears his name. During his adventurous life he was at one time chief among the Crow Indians, and he figures in many books of western travel. He died in 1867.