Belser, James E
congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from Alabama from 1843 to 1845. He died Jan. 6, 1859, in Montgomery, Ala.
BELTZHOOVER, FRANK ECKELS, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 6, 1841, in Cumberland county, Pa. In 1858 he entered Pennsylvania college, at Gettysburg, where he graduated in 1862.
He was admitted to the bar in 1864, and has practiced since.
In 1868 and 1873 he was chairman of the democratic executive committee of the county; and in 1874 was elected district attorney, and served for three years. In 1878 he was elected to the forty-sixth congress, forty-seventh in 1880, and also to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.
BEMAN, NATHANIEL SYDNEY SMITH, clergyman, was born Nov. 26, 1785, in New Lebanon, N. Y. He became pastor of the presbyterian church in Troy, N. Y., in 1822, and continued as such for upward of forty years. He was actively interested in the temperance, moral reform, revival, and anti-slavery movements of his time. Besides sermons, essays, and addresses, which have been separately published, he was the author of a volume entitled Four Sermons on the Atonement. He was also one of the compilers of the hymn-book adopted by the new-school branch of the presbyterian church. He died Aug. 8, 1871, in Carbondale, Ill.