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Bentley, Edwin – Berg, Joseph Frederick

Bentley, Edwin

physician, was born July 3, 1824, in Connecticut. He served in the civil war as surgeon, and in 1886 was post-surgeon at Fort Brown, Texas. He was professor of anatomy in the Pacific medical college of California and has been professor of surgery in the Industrial university of Arkansas since its organization.

Benton, Charles S

congressman, was born in Maine. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1843 to 1849.

Benton, Guy Potter

educator, was born May 26, 1865, in Kenton, Ohio. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university of Delaware. For five years he was superintendent of city schools in Fort Scott, Kan.; and served one term as assistant state superintendent of public instruction of Kansas. This popular educator fills the chair of history and sociology in the Baker university of Baldwin, Kan.

Benton, Herbert E

lawyer, journalist, was born July 31, 1849, in Morris, Conn. He became night editor of the New Haven Daily Palladium, in which capacity he served until his appointment as editor-in-chief in 1880. He served two years as a councilman, four years as alderman, and six years as police commissioner.

Benton, Jacob

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1819, in Waterford, Vt. In 1854-56 he was a member of the state legislature; was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1860; and was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the fortieth and fortyfirst congresses.

Benton, James Gilchrist

soldier, inventor, was born Sept. 15, 1820, in Lebanon, N. H. He was brevetted colonel U. S. army in 1865; designed ordnance appliances; discovered use of electricity to determine velocity; and wrote A Course of Instruction in Ordnance and Gunnery. He commanded the national armory of Springfield, Mass., until his death. He died Aug. 23, 1881, in Springfield, Mass.

Benton, Mortimer Murray

lawyer, state senator, was born in 1807, in Benton, N. Y. He represented Kenton county in the lower house of the Kentucky legislature from 1863 to 1865; was then elected to the senate at the expiration of his term.

Benton, Samuel

congressman, was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1793 to 1798.

Berard, Augusta Blanche

author, was born Oct. 29, 1824; in West Point, N. Y. She is an educational writer of West Point, and the author of School History of the United States; School History of England; Manual of Spanish Art and Literature; and Reminiscences of West Point in the Olden Time.

Berard, Claudius

educator, author, was born March 21, 1786, in Bordeaux, France. He arrived in New York in the spring of 1807, and soon afterward became professor of ancient languages in Dickinson college at Carlisle, Pa., where he remained until his appointment, in 1815, as professor of French in the U. S. military academy at West Point. He held this chair until his death, a period of over thirty-three years. He died May 6, 1848, at West Point, N. Y.

Beresford, Richard

congressman. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the continental congress from 1783 to 1785.

Berg, Joseph Frederick

clergyman, author, was born in 1812, on the island of Antigua. He was a Dutch reformed clergyman of Philadelphia and a once noted controversialist. He was the author of Lectures on Romanism; and Rome's Policy towards the Bible. He died July 20, 1871, in New Brunswick, N. J.