Bangs, Francis Nehemiah – Barbe, Waitman
Bangs, Francis Nehemiah
lawyer, was born Feb. 23, 1828, in New York city. He was one of the original members of the Bar association of New York, and was its president in 1882 and 1883. He was one of the originators of the Union League club in New York city. He died Nov. 30, 1885, in Ocala, Fla.
Bangs, John Kendrick
journalist, author, was born in 1862 in New York. He is a humorous writer of Yonkers, N. Y., and one of the founders of Life. He is the author of Three Weeks in Politics; Coffee and Repartee; The Idiot; The Water Ghost; Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica; A House Boat on the Styx; The Bicyclers and Other Farces; Toppleton's Client; and A Rebellious Heroine.
Bangs, Nathan
clergyman, author, was born May 2, 1778, in Stratford, Conn.
He was an active methodist theologian and controversialist, very prominent in the literary history of his church and a most prolific writer. Among his works are comprised History of the Methodist Episcopal Church to 1840; Errors of Hopkinsianism; Life of Arminius; Letters to a Young Preacher; Letters on Sanctification; and Methodist Episcopacy. He died May 3, 1862, in New York city.
Banigan, Joseph
manufacturer, was born June 7, 1839, in Ireland. He organized The Woonsocket Rubber company in 1866, and has ever since been its president and general manager, making his home in Providence, R. I.
Banister, John
congressman. He was a delegate from Virginia to the continental congress from 1778 to 1779, and signed the articles of confederation.
Banister, John
botanist, author, was born in 16- in England. He was a Virginia botanist who assisted the English naturalist, John Ray, and was the author of Observations on the Natural Productions of Jamaica; Insects of Virginia; Curiosities of Virginia; The Unseen Lupus; and The Pistolochia, or Serpentaria Virginiana. The genus Banisteria was named in his honor. He died in 1692 in Virginia.
Banister, John
soldier, legislator, was born in Virginia. He was a member of the state assembly, and of the continental congress from 1778 to 1779. In 1781, as lieutenant-colonel of Virginia cavalry, he took an active part in repelling the British from his state. He died 1787 in Hatchers Run, Va.
Bankard, Henry Nicholas
business man, was born Dec. 23, 1834, in Baltimore, Md. He published a paper which was strongly commended for its breadth of view and its force of statement. was one of the founders of the real estate exchange of Baltimore, and is also director of the Taxpayer association.
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Bankhead, John H
farmer, soldier, congressman, was born Sept. 13, 1842, in Lamar, Ala. He is a farmer; served four years in the confederate army, being wounded three times, and represented Marion county in the general assembly, sessions of 1865, 1866, and 1867; he was a member of the state senate in 1876-77, and of the house of representatives in 1880-81. He was warden of the Alabama penitentiary from 1881 till 1885, and was elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fiftysecond, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fiftyfifth congresses as a democrat.
Bankhead, John Pine
naval officer, was born Aug. 3, 1821, in South Carolina. He entered the navy as a midshipman; was made a lieutenant in 1852; commander in 1862; and captain in 1866. He died April 27, 1867, in Arabia.
Banks, Eugene
lawyer, poet. He is a successful lawyer of Chicago, Ill., and the author of a volume of poems entitled Where Brooks Go Softly.
Banks, Gardner
soldier, was born in Waltham, Mass. At the beginning of the civil war he raised a company for the sixteenth Massachusetts regiment, in which he rose to the rank of colonel in 1862. Gen. Hooker said, in a letter to Governor Andrew: There is no doubt but at Glendale the sixteenth Massachusetts saved the army. He died July 9, 1871, in Waltham, Mass.
Banks, John
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1793 in Juniata county, Pa. He received a classical education; studied law; came to the bar in 1819, and settled in the western part of the state.
He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1831 to 1836, when he resigned to accept the appointment of president judge of the third judicial district of the state. He died April 3, 1864, in Reading.
Banks, Linn
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was for twenty successive years speaker of the house of delegates of that state. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1838 to 1842.
He was drowned Feb. 24, 1842, in Madison county, Va.
Banks, Louis Albert
clergyman, was born in 1855 in Oregon. He is a prominent methodist clergyman and the author of The Saloon Keeper's Ledger, a Series of Temperance Discourses; The Fisherman and his Friends; Common Folks' Religion; Revival Quiver, a Record of Revival Campaigns; The People's Christ; White Slaves, or the Oppression of the Worthy Poor; The Honeycombs of Life; and Christ and His Friends.
Banks, Mary Ross
author, was born March 4, 1846, in Macon, Ga. Her literary fame was attained principally through her book entitled Bright Days on the Old Plantation, which was published in 1882.
Banks, Maud
actress, after a course of study and training at the New York school of acting, went upon the stage in 1886, making her first appearance at Portsmouth, N. H., in the character of Parthenia in Ingomar.
Banks, Nathaniel P
legislator, governor, was born in 1816 in Waltham, Mass. He worked in a cotton factory; lectured in public; edited a country newspaper; held a custom house position; practiced law; in 1849 and 1851 was sent to the state legislature; in 1852 was member of congress; in 1853 presided over the state constitutional convention; was three times elected governor of his state; was president of the I. C. R. R. in 1860; served brilliantly as commander in the Union army, and was several times re-elected to congress. He died in 1894. of
Banneker, Benjamin
astronomer, was born Nov. 9, 1731, at Ellicott's Mills, Md. He was an astronomer and mathematician of African descent, who assisted in the original survey of the District of Columbia and published an astronomical almanac 1792-1806. He died in October, 1806, in Baltimore, Md.
Banning, Ephraim
lawyer, was born July 21, 1849, near Bushnell, Ill. He received his education at the public schools and the academy at Brookfield, Mo. He moved to Chicago in 1871, and the following year opened a law office. He has made a specialty of patent and trademark law, and is one of the best known lawyers in his branch of profession in Chi- In 1896 he was a presidential cago. elector, and in 1897 was appointed by Governor Tanner a member of the state board of charities. an
Banning, Henry B
general, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1834, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He received academic education; studied and practiced law at Mount Vernon, Ohio, until 1861, when he enlisted as a private soldier; rose to the rank of brevet major-general. He represented Knox county in the Ohio legislature in 1866 and 1867; removed to Cincinnati in the year 1869, where he resumed the practice of law. He was elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses.
Bannister, E. M
artist, was born in 1833, in Andrews, New Brunswick. He studied art at the Lowell institute, Boston, and spent the greater part of his professional life there. In 1871 he removed to Providence, R. I. He has contributed regularly to the Boston Art club exhibitions. His picture Under the Oaks was awarded. a first-class medal at the centennial exhibition of 1876.
Banta, Melissa E
poet, was born March 27, 1834, in Cincinnati, Ohio; has attained prominence in literature, and her poems have been given a place in several standard publications. She is the wife of Judge Banta, of Bloomington, Ind. a au-
Banvard, John
artist, author, poet, was born about 1820, in New York. He was an artist and poet whose famous panorama of the Mississippi covered three miles of canvas. He wrote much indifferent verse, and published books of a miscellaneous nature. He was the author of Amasis, the Last of the Pharaohs, afterward dramatized by him; Carrinia: Drama; Description of the Mississippi River; Pilgrimage to the Holy Land; The Private Life of a King; A Tradition of the Temple, and a Poem. He died in 1891.
Banvard, Joseph
clergyman, thor, was born May 9, 1810, in New York city, and a brother of John Banvard. He was a baptist clergyman of Massachusetts, who beside contributing somewhat largely to Sunday-school literature wrote much in other directions. He is the author of Romance of American History; Plymouth and the Pilgrims; Novelties of the New World, or Adventures and Discoveries of the First Explorers; Tragic Scenes in the History of Maryland; The American Statesman, a Memoir of Webster; Southern Explorers; Soldiers and Patriots of the Revolution; and Priscilla.
Baraga, Friedric
missionary, author, was born June 29, 1797. He was a. Roman Catholic missionary who came to America in 1830 from Austria, and became bishop of Sault Ste. Marie in 1852.
He devoted himself to mission work among the Chippewa or Ojibway Indians, and beside writing several books in their tongue prepared a Grammar and Dictionary of the Otchipewe Language. He died Jan. 19, 1868, in Marquette, Mich.
Barbe, Waitman
lecturer, journalist, author, poet, was born Nov. 19, 1863, in Morgantown, W. Va. He is the editor of the Daily State Journal of Parkersburg, W. Va., and the author of Ashes and Incense, a volume of poems containing gems of rare genius; and a volume of short stories, entitled In the Virginias.
He has also attained prominence as a lecturer before schools and colleges on literary and educational subjects.