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Bergen, Fanny Dickerson – Berry, John

Bergen, Fanny Dickerson

educator, author, was born Feb. 4, 1846, in Mansfield, Ohio. Mrs. Bergen has dramatized Longfellow's poem of Miles Standish (Boston, 1883). She is a regular contributor to the American Teacher and the Journal of Education, and has written for other periodicals.

Bergen, John T

Congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1831 to 1833.

Bergen, Joseph Young

educator, author, was born Feb. 22, 1851, in Red Beach, Maine. He became professor of natural sciences in Lombard university, becoming, in 1883, principal of the Peabody (Mass.) high school. He is a regular contributor to the Journal of Education, and has written for the Engineering and Mining Journal. He is joint author with his wife of The Development Theory: the Study of Evolution simplified for General Readers.

Bergen, Teunis G

soldier, surveyor, horticulturist, congressman, was born Oct. 6, 1806, in Gowanus, N. Y. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1846; was supervisor of the town of New Utrecht for twenty-three years; served in all the grades, from sergeant to colonel, in the state militia; was a member of the Charleston and Baltimore conventions of 1860; and was, in 1864, elected a representative from New York to the thirty-ninth congress.

Bergh, Henry

philanthropist, author, was born May 8, 1823, in New York city, N. Y. He was a New York philanthropist who founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He was the author of The Streets of New York, a volume of sketches; Love's Alternative, a drama; and Married Off, a poem. He died March 12, 1888, in New York city.

Berghmann, Charles

musical director, was born in 1821 in Germany. For a time he was conductor of German opera, officiated as the musical head of the Arion singing society, and became alternate conductor of the Philharmonic. He died Aug. 10, 1876, in New York city.

Berhowitz, Henry

rabbi, founder, and chancellor, was born March 18, 1857, in Pittsburg, Pa. He is rabbi and founder of the Jewish Chautauqua society; and the author of Judaism and the Social Question; First and Second Hebrew Readers; Bible Ethics; Pulpit Message; and The Open Bible.

Berrian, William

clergyman, author, was born in 1787, in New York city. He was an episcopal clergyman who was rector of Trinity church, New York city, 1830-62. He was the author of Travels in France and Italy; Devotions for the Sick Room; On Communion; Enter thy Closet; The Sailors' Manual; Recollections of Departed Friends; Family and Private Prayers; and Historical Sketch of Trinity Church. He died Nov. 7. 1862, in New York city.

Berry, Albert Seaton

lawyer, congressman, was born in Campbell county, Ky. He was educated at Miami university, Oxford, Ohio, and attended Cincinnati law school. He served two terms in the state senate and five terms as mayor of Newport. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Berry, Campbell P

was born Nov. 7, 1834, in Jackson county, Ala. He removed to Arkansas in 1841, and thence to California in 1857; and graduated at the Methodist college of Vacaville, Cal. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1869, 1871, 1875, and 1877, and the last term was speaker of the house. He was elected a representative from California to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.

Berry, John

lawyer, congressman, was born April 26, 1833, in Crawford county, Ohio. He was educated at the common schools, and the Ohio Wesleyan university; and graduated at the law school of Cincinnati college. He was admitted to the bar in 1857; practiced his profession at Upper Sandusky; was prosecuting attorney of Wyandot county in 1862, and again in 1864; and was elected to the forty-third congress as a democrat.