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Belcher, Jonathan

merchant, governor, was born Jan. 8, 1681. He was graduated at Harvard in 1699; and spent six years in Europe. Having returned to Boston and become a merchant there, agent of the colony, and on Gov. Burnet's in 1729 he was sent to England as the death in 1730 he was appointed governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, which office he held for eleven years. He died Aug. 31, 1757, in Elizabethtown, N. J.

Belcher, Joseph

clergyman, author, was born April 15, 1794, in Birmingham, England. He was a baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, who came thither from England in 1844. His complete works number over two hundred volumes.

Among them are The Baptist Pulpit of the United States; The Clergy of America; History of Religious Denominations in the United States; and Hymns and Their Authors. He died July 10, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Belcher, Nathan

manufacturer, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 23, 1813, in Griswold, Conn.

He was a member of the house of representatives of Connecticut in 1846 and 1847, and of the state senate in 1850. He was a presidential elector in 1852; and was a representative in congress from 1853 to 1855.

Belcher, Samuel Clifford

soldier, lawyer, was born March 20, 1839, in Farmington, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin college in 1857. He was captain and major in the sixteenth regiment of Maine infantry in the civil war; and in 1879 was inspector-general of the Maine militia, with the rank of brigadiergeneral. He has practiced law for nearly thirty years, and his reputation as an astute lawyer is widespread.

Belden, George O

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from New York from 1827 to 1829.

Belden, Josiah

merchant, statesman, was born May 4, 1815, in Cromwell, Conn. When Captain Jones, of the frigate United States, took possession of California for the government, Mr.

Belden was appointed alcalde of Santa Cruz, and with his own hands raised the American flag in California for the first time. He was the first mayor of San Jose in 1850. He died April 23, 1892.

Belding, Milo Merrick

manufacturer, was born April 3, 1833, in Ashfield, Mass. In 1866, with his brothers, he started a silk factory in Rockville, Conn. In 1874 they built a second silk mill in Northampton, Mass.; and later one in Belding, Mich.

Belford, James B

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 28, 1837, in Lewiston, Pa. He was educated at Dickinson college; studied and practiced law; and was appointed a judge of the supreme court of Colorado in 1870, and served five years. He was elected a representative from Colorado to the forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth congresses.

BELFORD, JOSEPH McCRUM

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 5, 1852, in Mifflingtown, Pa. He received a classical education, graduating from Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa., in 1871; and engaged in academic work for some years. He removed to Long Island in 1884; was admitted to the bar in 1889, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Belknap, Jeremy

clergyman, author, was born June 4, 1744, in Boston, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Boston, whose History of New Hampshire ranks as the best among local state histories, and is accurate as it is entertaining. His other works include American Biographies; The Foresters; and an American Tale. He died June 20, 1798, in Boston, Mass.

Bell, Agrippa Nelson

physician, surgeon, journalist, was born Aug. 3, 1820, in Northampton county, Va. He entered the practice of medicine in Franktown, Va.; and in 1847 entered the naval service as a surgeon. In 1873 he established The Sanitarian, of which he still continues as editor and proprietor. He is the author of Knowledge of Living Things, and other works. In 1872 he was one of the founders of the American Public Health association.