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Bellamy, Charles Joseph

journalist, author, was born in 1852 in Massachusetts. He is a journalist of Springfield, Mass., and the author of The Breton Mills, a Novel; Everybody's Lawyer; The Way Out; and Suggestions for Social Reform.

Bellamy, John D

lawyer, state legislator, author, was born March 24, 1854, in Wilmington, N. C. He graduated from the Davidson college, and from the university of Virginia. He has been state senator and city attorney; is the author of several books; and a contributor to various newspapers and periodicals. were

Bellamy, Joseph

clergyman, author, was born in 1719, in Cheshire, Conn. He founded a divinity school in his parish, and trained many men there who afterwards famous among New England ministers. He is the author of True Religion Delineated; The Law Our Schoolmaster; The Half-Way Covenant; and The Nature and Glory of the Gospel.

He died March 6, 1790, in Bethlehem, Conn.

Bellamy, Orlando Rollin

educator, poet, was born Aug. 10, 1856, in Vevay, Ind. He attended the DePauw university of Greencastle, and while there wrote an essay in poetry. As a student he won the honors of his class, and received a gold medal as a prize in mathematics. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Songs by the Wayside.

Bellamy, William

author, was born in 1846 in Massachusetts. He is a Boston writer who has published a volume of poems entitled A Century of Charades; and A Second Century of Charades.

Bellas, Henry Hobart

soldier, author, was born June 30, 1846, in Ebensburg, Pa. He graduated from the university of Cambridge. From 1873-80 he was an officer of the United States army, when he was placed on the retired list as captain of cavalry. He is the author of various genealogical and historical publications.

Bellinger, Joseph

congressman.

He was a presidential elector in 1809; and a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1817 to 1819.

Bellingham, Richard

colonial governor, was born in 1592 in England.

He settled in Boston, and in 1641 was elected governor; was re-elected in 1654, and again in 1665. He was chief magistrate of Massachusetts for the remainder' of his life, being deputy governor thirteen years and governor ten. He died Dec. 7, 1672.

Bellows, Albert F

painter, was born Nov. 29, 1829, in Milford, Mass. His early works, mostly genre pictures in oil, include The First Pair of Boots; The Sorrows of Boyhood; and The Lost Child. Among his later water-colors are The Notch at Lancaster; Afternoon in Surrey; The Thames at Windsor; The Reaper's Child; and New England Homestead. He died Nov. 24, 1883, in Auburndale, Mass.

Bellows, Henry Adams

lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 25, 1803, in Walpole, Mass. In 1826 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1828 opened an office in Littleton, N. H. He was appointed associate judge of the supreme court in 1859, and after ten years of service in that capacity became chief justice on the death of Judge Perley. He died March 11, 1873, in Concord, N. H.

Bellows, Henry Whitney

clergyman, author, was born June 11, 1814, in Boston, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of prominence in New York city, well known at one time as the president of the United States sanitary commission. He was the author of Restatements of Christian Doctrine; Sermons; Relation of Public Amusements to Public Morality; and The Old World in Its New Face. He died Jan. 30, 1882, in New York city.

Belmont, August

diplomat, was born in Germany. In 1853 he was appointed by President Pierce charge d'affaires to The Hague, and afterward became minister resident, resigning in 1858. In the latter capacity he negotiated a highly important consular convention, for which and other diplomatic services he received special thanks from Washington. He was a leading delegate to the democratic convention of 1860; and from that year until 1872 was chairman of the national democratic committee, when he resigned.