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Bittenbender, Ada M. Cole

lawyer, reformer, was born Aug. 3, 1848, in Bradford county, Pa. In 1881-82 she was secretary and president of the Nebraska State Suffrage association; and from 1879- 82 was editor of the Record and Polk County Farmers' Alliance. During 1887- 92 she was superintendent of the legal department of the National Woman's Christian Temperance union; and since 1894 has been president of Uncle Sam's Anti- Drunkard Factory concern of Lincoln, Neb.

BITTENBENDER, HENRY CLAY, journalist, lawyer, reformer, was born June 19, 1851, in Afton, Pa. He received his education in the Bloomsbury normal college, Gettysburg college, and the Princeton college, N. J. He has attained prominence as a bright journalist and able lawyer of Lincoln, Neb. He has been secretary of the prohibition party of Nebraska; and is the secretary of Uncle Sam's Anti-Drunkard Factory concern, of which his wife is president.

BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRAN- CIS, sculptor, was born Dec. 6, 1867, in Austria. He has attained success as a sculptor. Among his works that have claimed the attention of the public is the sculpture on the administration building and manufactures and liberal arts building of the World's Columbian exposition of Chicago, Ill.

BITTINGER, JOHN LAWRENCE, journalist, statesman, was born Nov. 28, 1833, near Chambersburg, Pa. He received his education in the common schools of Ohio, and removed to Missouri in 1855. During 1861-65 he was postmaster of St. Joseph; was a member of the twenty-second, twenty-sixth, twentyseventh, and twenty-eighth, and thirtyeighth and thirty-ninth general assemblies of Missouri; and has always taken an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state. He was a delegate to the republican national conventions of 1872 and 1896; and in 1897 was appointed consul-general at Montreal, Canada. He is also a successful journalist, and since 1860 has been the editor and owner of The Herald of St. Joseph, Mo.