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Belmont, August – Bendire, Charles E

Belmont, August

banker, was born Feb. 18, 1853, in New York city. He is now at the head of August Belmont and Co., the American representatives of the Rothschild bank abroad. The family make their country home at Hempstead, on Long Island.

Belmont, Perry

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 27, 1851, in New York city. He graduated at Harvard college in 1872; and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.

Belo, Alfred H

journalist, was born May 27, 1839, in Salem, N. C. In 1865 he became connected with the Galveston News; and in 1885 published the Dallas News, which has achieved a great and rapid success.

Belrose, Louis

author, was born in 1845 in Pennsylvania. He was a writer whose only published work of note is Thorns and Flowers, a volume of poems.

He died in 1896.

Bement, George William

merchant, was born March 4, 1824, in Stockbridge, Mass. In 1843 he located in Terre Haute, and by more than fifty years of unremitting application and prudent husbanding of means has accumulated large wealth in the wholesale grocery business.

Bement, William Barnes

manufacturer, inventor, was born May 10, 1817, in Bradford, N. H. He went to Philadelphia and devoted himself there to the invention and manufacture of machine tools and machinery.

The Industrial Works, as they were called, grew in time both in size and prestige to equal the best of their class in America, and they are said to stand second only to the Whitworth shops in England.

Bemis, Arthur L

educator, journalist, legislator, was born March 20, 1858, in Elyria, Ohio. For many years he was professor of chemistry, general history, and penmanship in the Ionia schools, Mich. Since 1890 he has been the editor and owner of the Carson City Gazette; and in 1897-98 was a member of the Michigan state legislature.

Bemis, Edward Webster

educator, author, was born in 1860 in Massachusetts. He is a professor of economics in the University of Chicago; and the author of History of Co-operation in the United States; and Municipal Ownership of Gas in the United States.

Bemiss, Samuel Merrifield

physician, surgeon, author, was born Oct. 15, 1821, in Nelson county, Ky. From 1862 till 1865 he was a surgeon in the confederate army. After the war he settled in New Orleans, and in 1866 he became professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the university of Louisiana. He is the editor of the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal.

Bender, Joseph Elmer

educator, physician, nurseryman, was born Sept. 17, 1852, in Westmoreland county, Pa. He received his education at the Oskaloosa college, Iowa; and during 1879-81 attended the Allopathic Medical department at the Iowa State university. He taught school until 1883, and since that time has been secretary of the Independent School district of Oakland, Iowa. He abandoned the practice of medicine in 1892, since which time he has been engaged in fruit growing.

Bender, Prosper

physician, author, was born in 1844 in Quebec, Canada. He is a Canadian physician, and since 1883 has practiced his profession in Boston. He is the author of Old and New Canada; Literary Sheaves, or La Littérature au Canada-Francais.

Bendire, Charles E

soldier, educator, author, was born in 1836 in Georgia. He was an ornithologist of note; honorary curator of the department of oölogy in the United States National museum; and a captain and brevet major in the United States army. He was the author of Life Histories of North American Birds. He died in 1897.