Bache, Franklin – Bacon, Ezekiel
Bache, Franklin
physician, author, was born Oct. 25, 1792, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia physician, and professor of chemistry in Jefferson Medical college, 1841-64. He was the author of A System of Chemistry for Students in Medicine; and The Dispensatory of the United States. He died March 19, 1864, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Bache, Hartman
engineer, was born in 1797, in Philadelphia, Pa. He received the brevet of brigadier-general in 1865, the highest grade in the engineer corps, for long, faithful, and meritorious services. Among his engineering works of conspicuous merit were the construction of the Delaware breakwater and the successful application of iron-screw piles for the foundation of lighthouses upon sandy shoals and coral reefs. He died Oct. 8, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Bache, Richard
postmaster-general, was born Sept. 12, 1837, in England. He established himself in Philadelphia, and Benjamin Franklin appointed him secretary, compiler and register general; and in 1776 he became postmaster-general.
He died July 29, 1811, in Seattle, Pa.
Bache, Sarah
philanthropist, was born Sept. 11, 1744, in Philadelphia, Pa.
She was the leader among the ladies of Philadelphia to furnish the destitute American soldiers with money and clothing during the year 1780. She died Oct. 5, 1808, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Bache, Theophylact
merchant, colonist, was born Jan. 17, 1734, in England. In 1774 he was elected the fifth president of the New York Chamber of Commerce. He died Oct. 30, 1807, in New York city.
Bacheller, Irving
journalist, author, was born in 1859 in New York. He is a journalist of New York city; and the author of The Master of Silence, a romance; and The Still House of O'Darrow, a novel.
Bachman, John
naturalist, author, was born Feb. 4, 1790, in Dutchess county, N. Y. He was a naturalist of Charleston, where he was pastor of a Lutheran church, 1815-74. He assisted Audubon, preparing the greater part of the text of The Quadrupeds of North America, and wrote several religious and scientific works. He was the author of Two Letters on Heredity; and Defence of Luther and the Reformation. He died Feb. 25, 1874, in Charleston, S. C.
Bachman, Reuben K
educator, merchant, congressman, was born Aug. 6, 1834, in Williams, Pa. He spent his early boyhood upon his father's farm; received a common school education; and followed the vocation of teaching in his early manhood. Subsequently, he entered into the mercantile and milling business at Durham, Pa.; and was elected to the fortysixth congress as a democrat.
Bachman, Solomon
manufacturer, was born in 1827 in Germany. He engaged in the manufacture of balmoral skirts, and bought a mill at Paterson, N. J., with machinery to make yarns, and power looms to weave skirts and shawls. In 1877 he bought the Merrimack woolen mill in Lowell, Mass., which he still continues to run.
Bachmann, Alexander
musician, composer, was born Jan. 2, 1836, in Germany. He is a successful and noted instructor of the piano, organ and violin; a director of choruses; and for many years principal of the Northwestern Musical institute of Philadelphia, Pa. He is said to have taught the largest number of individual pupils of any music teacher in America, many of whom now occupy high positions in the musical world. He has been organist of some of the leading protestant episcopal churches of Philadelphia; and for many years was vocal instructor of the Protestant Episcopal Divinity school. He is the author of considerable church music, and his translations have been a valuable acquisition to musical literature.
Backus, Azel
educator, clergyman, college president, was born Oct. 13, 1765, in Norwich, Conn. He was licensed to preach in 1789, and in 1791 became the successor of Dr. Bellamy at Bethlehem, Conn., where he also carried on a successful school. Here he remained until, at the foundation of Hamilton college, Clinton, N. Y., in 1812, he was chosen its first president. He died Dec. 9, 1817.
Backus, Charles
theologian, was born Nov. 9, 1749, in Franklin, Conn. In 1774, he became pastor of the congregational church in Somers, where he remained until his death. Here he established a sort of divinity school, receiving theological students into his family. He died Dec. 30, 1803, in Somers, Conn.
Backus, Clarence Walworth
soldier, clergyman, was born April 20, 1846, in Schenectady, N. Y. He spent one year in the Pennsylvania Military academy, and from there entered the army as first lieutenant of the ninety-seventh regiment New York volunteers. He subsequently graduated from Union college, and from the Princeton Theological seminary; and has since attained prominence as one of the foremost clergymen of the presbyterian church in Kansas.
Backus, Franklin T
lawyer, was born May 6, 1813, in Lee, Mass. He was elected prosecuting attorney of the county in 1841, and was sent to the Ohio house of representatives in 1846, and to the state senate in 1848. He was a delegate to the peace congress at Washington in 1861. He supported McClellan for president in 1864, and was a delegate to the national convention that met at Philadelphia in 1866 to form a new party. He died May 14, 1870, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Backus, Henry Clinton
lawyer, was born May 31, 1848, in Utica, N. Y.
In 1891 he was chairman of the delegation of the thirteenth assembly district to the republican county committee of New York city and county; and held the leadership of the district for one year. In 1893 he consented to stand for the New York constitutional convention.
Backus, Henry T
lawyer, jurist, was born in Norwich, Conn. He received a liberal education; adopted the profession of the law; and removed to Detroit, Mich., where he was for many years devoted to his profession. He was subsequently appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Arizona.
Backus, Isaac
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 9, 1724, in Norwich, Conn.
He was a baptist clergyman of Rhode Island; and the author of A History of New England, with Particular Reference to the Baptists. He died Nov. 20, 1806.
Backus, Truman Jay
educator, college president, was born Feb. 11, 1842, in Locke, N. Y. In 1867 he was elected to fill the chair of rhetoric and English in Vassar college, which office he held for sixteen years. He accepted a call to the presidency of Packer collegiate institute of Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1883.
Backus, William Vernon
lawyer, was born Aug. 24, 1860, in Cleveland, Ohio.
He received his education in the public schools of his native city; in business colleges, and received private instruction in foreign languages. He has attained success as an able lawyer of Cleveland, in which city he was a member of the board of education during 1892-97, and its president in 1895-96.
Bacon, Augustus Octavius
was born Oct. 20, 1839, in Bryan county, Ga.
He was frequently a member of state democratic conventions; was president of the state democratic convention in 1880, and was delegate from the state at large to the national democratic convention in Chicago in 1884; in 1868 he was elected presidential elector on the democratic ticket; in 1871 was elected to the Georgia house of representatives, of which body he has served as a member for fourteen years, and during eight years was speaker. He was several times a candidate for the democratic nomination for governor of Georgia; and was elected to the United States senate as a democrat in 1894. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.
Bacon, David Francis
physician, author, was born Nov. 30, 1813, in Prospect, Conn. Soon after the completion of his studies he was sent as principal colonial physician to Liberia by the American colonization society. He was a frequent contributor to periodical literature, and published Lives of the Apostles; and also Wanderings on the Seas and Shores of Africa. He died Jan. 23, 1866, in New York.
Bacon, David W
Roman Catholic bishop, was born in 1814, in Brooklyn, N.
Y. In 1855 he was consecrated bishop of the newly created diocese of Portland, Maine, which embraced the states of Maine and New Hampshire. He died Nov. 5, 1874, in New York.
Bacon, Delia Salter
author, was born Feb. 2, 1811, in Talmadge, Ohio. She was the earliest exponent of the Baconian theory of the authorship of Shakespeare; and was the author of Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded; Tales of the Puritans; and The Bride of Fort Edward, a Drama. She died Sept. 2, 1859, in Hartford, Conn.
Bacon, Edmund
lawyer, was born in January, 1776, in Virginia. He is the Ned Brace of Judge Longstreet's Georgia Scenes, and as a wit and humorist was conspicuous among his contemporaries.
He died Feb. 2, 1826, in Edgefield, S. C.
Bacon, Edward Payson
merchant, financier, was born May 16, 1834, in Reading, N. Y. In 1865 he established the firm of E. P. Bacon and Company, a grain commission business; in 1889-91 was vicepresident of the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce; and in 1891 was elected its president.
Bacon, Edward R
railroad president, was born Nov. 22, 1846, in New York city. Since 1890 he has been president of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railway.
Bacon, Edwin Munroe
journalist, author, was born Oct. 20, 1844, in Providence, R. I. He is a journalist of Boston; and the author of Dictionary of Boston; and Boston of To-Day.
Bacon, Ezekiel
jurist, congressman, author, was born Sept. 1, 1776, in Stockbridge, Mass. He graduated at Yale college in 1794; was a member of the state legislature in 1805 and 1806; was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1807 to 1813; chief justice of common pleas in 1813; and first comptroller of the United States treasury from 1813 to 1815. He removed to Utica, N. Y., and was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1821. In 1843 he published Recollections of Fifty Years Since. He died Oct. 18, 1870, in Utica, N. Y.