Bailey, Lepha Eliza – Baird, John Faris
Bailey, Lepha Eliza
lecturer, prohibitionist, was born Jan. 21, 1844, in Battle Creek, Mich. She received her education in the public schools of her native city and at the Battle Creek college. For many years she has been secretary of the Woman's Christian Temperance union; Reform club; Sovereigns of Industry; and of the Independent Order of Good Templars. She has delivered hundreds of lectures on temperance and reform subjects and is one of the most talented leaders in the field of prohibition. She has contributed extensively to the periodical press; has edited various departments in newspapers, and is the author of several works in prose and verse.
Bailey, Liberty Hyde
educator, lecturer, author, was born March 15, 1858, in South Haven, Mich. He is a prominent horticulturist and for many years was professor of horticulture and landscape gardening in the Michigan Agricultural college. He is the author of American Grape Training; Cross-Breeding and Hybridization; Field Notes on Apple Culture; Annals of Horticulture; The Horticulturist Rule-Book; The Nursery-Book; A Complete Guide to the Multiplication and Pollination of Plants; and Talks Afield About Plants; Plant Breeding.
Bailey, Loring Woart
educator, author, was born Sept. 28, 1839, in West Point, N. Y. He is a professor of natural history in the university of New Brunswick, and the author of Mines and Minerals of New Brunswick; Geology of Southern New Brunswick; and Elementary Natural History.
Bailey, Martin B
lawyer, legislator, was born Jan. 22, 1858, in Vermillion county, Ill. He was chief of the law de.. partment in the pension bureau during Harrison's administration, and was a member of the Illinois state legislature in 1895.
Bailey, Norman
soldier, merchant, state senator, was born Jan. 1, 1822, in New York. He was captain in the service during the war, and in 1861-62 was a member of the Michigan state senate.
Bailey, Rufus William
educator, author, was born April 13, 1793, in North Yarmouth, Maine. In 1854 he was elected professor of languages in Austin college at Huntsville, Tex., and in 1858 became its president. He was the author of a series of newspaper letters on slavery, subsequently published in a volume under the title of The Issue; also of a volume of sermons entitled The Family Preacher; of letters to daughters entitled The Mother's Request; of a Primary Grammar; and of a Manual of English Grammar used extensively in southern schools. He died April 25, 1863, in Huntsville, Tex.
Bailey, Sara Lord
elocutionist, was born Sept. 9, 1856, in England. In 1888 she graduated from the Boston School of Oratory and has since attained success as a teacher of elocution and voice culture in numerous large institutions.
Bailey, Silas
clergyman, educator, college president, was born in 1812 in Massachusetts. He became principal of Worcester academy about 1840, and after several years was elected president of Granville college, afterward Dennison university, Granville, Ohio, where he remained for ten years. He then became president of the newly established college at Franklin, Ind., where he remained until his health failed. He bequeathed his library to Franklin college. Dr. Bailey published sermons, addresses and reviews. He died June 11, 1874, in Paris, France.
Bailey, Theodorus
United States senator, was born Oct. 12, 1758, in Dutchess county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1793-97, and again from 1799-1803. He was a senator in congress from 1803-04, when he resigned and was appointed postmaster of New York city. He died Sept. 6, 1828, in New York city.
Bailey, Theodorus
naval officer, was born April 12, 1805, in Chateaugay, N. Y. After serving on the frigate Constellation, in which he again sailed round the world, he was placed in command of the storeship Lexington in 1846, in which, on the breaking out of the Mexican war, he conveyed to California, by way of Cape Horn, an artillery company and several officers who afterward became famous. He died Feb. 10, 1877, in Washington, D. C.
Bailey, William Whitman
botanist, author, was born Feb. 22, 1843, in West Point, N. Y., and is a brother of L.
W. Bailey. He is a professor of botany at Brown university and the author of New England Wild Flowers and Their Seasons; Among Rhode Island Wild Flowers; and Botanical Collector's Hand- Book.
Bailly, Joseph A
sculptor, was born in 1825 in Paris, France. He began his career as a woodcarver and later he applied himself to marble sculpture and became a professor in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He has produced a statue of Washington, which was placed in front of the Philadelphia statehouse in 1869; a colossal statue of Witherspoon; the companion groups called The First Prayer and Paradise Lost; portrait busts of Gen. Grant and Gen. Meade; an equestrian statue of President Blanco of Venezuela; and Spring.
Baily, Joseph
manufacturer, congressman, was born March 18, 1810, on the Brandywine battleground, Chester county, Pa. From 1839 to 1845 he represented his native county in both branches of the legislature; and from 1850 to 1854 represented Perry county in the state senate; in 1854 he was treasurer of the state of Pennsylvania; and in 1860 was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-seventh congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress. He was one of the twelve democrats in congress who voted for the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.
Bainbridge, Henry
soldier, was born in 1803, in New York. He served in the Florida war, in the military occиpation of Texas, and in the war with Mexico. In 1849-50 he served in the Seminole war.
He was promoted to a lieutenant-colonelcy in 1851. He died May 31, 1857, near Galveston.
Bainbridge, William
naval officer, was born in 1774 in New Jersey. He was the captain of a merchant vessel at the age of nineteen and entered the naval service in 1798. He was distinguished during the war of 1812, and died in 1833.
Baird, Absalom
general, was born Aug. 20, 1824, in Washington, Pa. He served at Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Resalo, Jonesborough, and Atlanta. For his services in the Atlanta campaign he received the brevet rank of brigadier-general in the regular army in 1865, with that of major-general for services during the rebellion. He served as inspectorgeneral of the department of the lakes from 1866 to 1868, of the department of Dakota till 1870, of the division of the south till 1872, and subsequently as assistant inspector-general of the division of the Missouri.
Baird, Andrew D
soldier, merchant, was born Oct. 14, 1839, in Scotland. He served entirely through the war, taking part in forty-five battles and being wounded three times, and commanded the regiment after May, 1864. The stone yards of Gill and Baird of New York City are among the foremost in the United States.
Baird, Chambers
lawyer, poet, is a popular lawyer of Ripley, Ohio, and the author of several meritorious poems.
Baird, Charles Washington
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 28, 1828, in Princeton, N. J., and was a son of R. Baird. He was a presbyterian minister of Rye, N. Y., and the author of Eutaxia, or the Presbyterian Liturgies; Book of Public Prayer; History of Rye; and History of the Huguenot Emigration to America. He died Feb. 10, 1887, in Rye, N. Y.
Baird, George W
naval engineer, inventor, author, was born April 22, 1843, in Washington, D. C. He entered the navy as assistant engineer and served during the civil war. He is the inventor of a distiller for making fresh water from sea water, an evaporator, a pneumatic steering machine, and numerous other inventions. He is the author of The Absorption of Gases by Water; The Flight of Flying Fish; Science; and other works.
Baird, Henry Carey
political economist and author, was born Sept. 10, 1825, in Bridesburg, Pa. He is a publisher of industrial books at Philadelphia, and an active member of the American Philosophical society, before which he has read many learned papers. He is the author of Rights of American Producers and Wrongs of British Free Trade Revenue Reformers; Protection of Home Labour and Home Production Necessary to the Protection of the American Farmer; and Miscellaneous Papers on Economic Questions.
Baird, Henry Martyn
educator, author, was born Jan. 17, 1832, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a professor of Greek at the University of New York from 1859, and an historian who is conscientious but not absolutely impartial. He is the author of Life of Robert Baird; Modern Greece; Narrative of a Residence and Travels; History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France; The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre; and The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Baird, James Hadyn
journalist, was born Aug. 13, 1866, in West Lebanon, Tenn. In 1889 he became business manager of Southern Lumberman. In 1896 he was elected to the office of scrivenoter in the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, with headquarters at Nashville, Tenn.
He was also secretary of Forestry department in the Tennessee centennial at Nashville in 1897.
Baird, John C
lawyer, orator, jurist, was born Jan. 7, 1852, in Pittsburg, Pa. He received his education in the public schools of his native city, and has attained prominence as a lawyer of ability of Cheyenne, Wyo. He has filled the office of district attorney; and has been judge-advocate-general of Wyoming, with rank of colonel. He is prominent in Knights Templars and other orders, and well known as an eloquent western orator..
Baird, John Faris
educator, clergyman, was born Dec. 5, 1851, in Charlestown, Ind. In 1880 he was elected professor of ethics and christian evidence in Hanover College, which he held until 1890, when he accepted a pastorate of the presbyterian church of Seymour, Ind.