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Binney, Amos – Birdsall, James

Binney, Amos

physician, author, was born Oct. 18, 1803, in Boston, Mass. He was a once prominent physician and naturalist of Boston, and the author of Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States. He died Feb. 18, 1847, in Rome, Italy.

Binney, Horace

jurist, congressman, author, was born Jan. 4, 1780, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a noted jurist of Philadelphia. He was a member of the Pennsylvania legislature in 1806-07; and a representative in congress in 1833-35.

He was the author of Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1799- 1814; Leaders of the Old Bar of Philadelphia; and Inquiry Into the Formation of Washington's Farewell Address. He died Aug. 12, 1875, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Binney, Joseph Getchell

college president, was born Nov. 4, 1778, in Milford, Mass. In 1822 he accepted the chair of theology in Waterville college, and remained there until 1828, when he became president of the Columbian college. He died Oct. 1, 1845.

Binney, William Greene

conchologist, author, was born in 1833, in Massachusetts. He is a well-known conchologist of Burlington, N. J. Besides completing his father's work on mollusks he has written Bibliography of North American Conchology; Land and Fresh Water Shells of North America; and Catalogues of the Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of North America.

Binns, John

journalist, author, was born Dec. 22, 1772, in Ireland. From 1807 to 1829 he conducted, at Philadelphia, the Democratic Press, the leading paper in the state. He was for twenty years an alderman of Philadelphia. In 1854 he published Recollections of the Life of John Binns; Twenty-nine Years in Europe, and Fifty-three in the United States. He was also the author of Binns' Magistrate's Manual. He died June 16, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Birch, Thomas

artist, was born in 1779, in London, England. During the war of 1812 he executed a series of historical paintings, representing the naval victories of the United States. He also painted landscapes, particularly snow scenes. The Harrison collection in Philadelphia contains his paintings of the engagement between the United States and the Macedonian, and between the Constitution and the Guerriere. Three of his marine views are in the Claghorn collection. He died Jan. 14, 1851, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Birckhead, William H

poet. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Changing Moods.

Bird, Frederick Mayer

clergyman, author, was born June 28, 1838, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is an episcopal clergyman widely known as an hymnologist. He has edited The Lutheran Ministerium Hymns; Songs of the Spirit; published Charles Wesley Seen in His Finer and Less Familiar Pieces; and contributed extensively to the critical literature of his subject.

Bird, John

lawyer, congressman, was born in Litchfield, Conn. He was early distinguished at the bar of New York state and in the legislature; and was a representative in congress from 1799 to 1801.

Bird, John T

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 16, 1829, in Hunterdon county, N. J. In 1863 he was appointed prosecuting attorney for Hunterdon county for five years; and in 1868 was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-first congress; and re-elected to the forty-second congress.

Birdsall, Ausburn

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress, from that state, from 1847 to 1849; and was subsequently appointed naval storekeeper in New York city.

Birdsall, James

congressman. He was a representative in congress, from New York, from 1815 to 1817; and was a member of the assembly of that state in 1837.