Beveridge, John L
lawyer, governor, was born July 6, 1824, in Greenwich, N. Y. From 1846 to 1851 he taught school in Tennessee and read law; he practiced in Chicago; he served four years in the union army as major and colonel of cavalry; and was sheriff of Cook county, Ill., two years; he was elected state elected to senator in 1870; and was elected to BEVERLEY clergyman, journalist, author, was born August, 1827, in New York city, N. Y.
He was successively rector of several churches until 1865, when he was appointed librarian of Columbia. Of the large library of that college he prepared a full catalogue. He has been a frequent contributor to the church journals, and for many years one of the editors of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. fill a vacancy in the forty-second congress; he was elected governor of Illinois in 1873 for the term of four years.