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Bledsoe, Albert Taylor

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 9, 1809, in Frankfort, Ky. He was a southern clergyman who left the episcopal for the methodist church, and wrote extensively on metaphysics and mathematics. was the author of Liberty and Slavery; Examination of Edwards on the Will; Philosophy of Mathematics; Is Davis a Traitor? or was Secession a Constitutional Right previous to the War of 1861? and Theodicy. He died Dec. 8, 1877, in Alexandria, Va.

Bledsoe, Jesse

lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born April 6, 1776, in Culpeper county, Va. He was at one time a distinguished advocate and jurist of Kentucky. He was a senator in congress from that state from 1813 to 1815; was professor of law in the University of Transylvania, and chief justice of the supreme court of Kentucky. He died June 30, 1837, in Nacogdoches, Tex.

Bleecker, Ann Eliza

poet, was born in October, 1752, in New York city.

Some years after her death her stories and poems were collected and published under the title of Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker in Prose and Verse, with a memoir by her daughter, Margaretta V. Faugeres. She died Nov. 23, 1783, in Tomhannock, N. Y.

Bleecker, Hermanus

lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 19, 1779, in Albany, N. Y. He was a member of congress from New York from 1811 to 1813, and was appointed, in 1839, charge d'affaires at The Hague. He died July 19, 1849, in Albany, N. Y.

Bleistein, George

journalist, was born Dec. 6, 1861, in Buffalo, N. Y. In 1885 he was elected president and treasurer of the Courier company, which is said to have the largest and best equipped printing and lithographing establishment in the world.

Blewett, Benjamin Turner

educator, college president, was born Sept. 17, 1820, in Bowling Green, Ky. He graduated from the Georgetown college, and has been president of the Bethel college, Kentucky; and president of the Augusta college, Kentucky. This eminent educator is now connected with the St.

Louis seminary of Jennings, Mo.

Blish, George William

elocutionist, was born March 1, 1837, in Rome, Ill. He is the founder of the Blish school of elocution, of Boston, Mass., and is one of the original organizers of Royal Ar- He is a fine interpreter of dramatic, humorous and dialect sketches. canum.

Bliss, Daniel

missionary, author, was born June 17, 1823, in Georgia, Vt.

He is a congregational missionary, and president of the Protestant college at Beyrout since 1864. He is the author of Mental Philosophy; and Natural Philosophy (in Arabic).

Bliss, Don Alfonso

lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 14, 1854, in Artesia, Miss.

He has attained success in the profession of law at Sherman, Tex.; has been alderman of his city, and is now judge of the fifteenth judicial district of Texas.

Bliss, Edwin Munsell

clergyman, journalist, author, was born Sept. 12, 1848, in Turkey. He is a graduate of the Amherst college and Yale divinity school.

He is the editor of the New York Independent, and the author of Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities; and Concise History of Missions.

Bliss, Eliphalet Williams

manufacturer, was born April 12, 1836, in Fly Creek, N. Y. The corporation of the E.

W. Bliss Co. now employs 600 men. The plant comprises extensive buildings and machine shops for the manufacture of tools, presses, dies, and patented articles of various kinds.

Bliss, George

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1813, in Jericho, Vt. In 1850 he was appointed president judge of the eighth judicial district of Ohio, serving one year, until the state constitution was changed. In 1852 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-third congress, and in 1862 was elected to the thirty-eighth congress.