Bartram, William – Batchelder, John Putnam
Bartram, William
botanist, author, was born Feb. 9, 1739, in Kingsessing, Pa. He was a botanist and traveler of Pennsylvania; and the author of Travel Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, etc.; and Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians. He died July 22, 1823, in Kingsessing, Pa.
Barwig, Charles
merchant, congressman, was born March 19, 1837, in Germany. He emigrated to America with his parents in 1845, locating at Milwaukee. He graduated from the Spencerian business college in 1857; located at Mayville in 1865; and was elected to the fiftyfirst, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses.
Barzee, Clark Louis
educator, college president, poet, was born Jan. 5, 1864, in Marion county, Ore. He has been president of the Jefferson institute, Oregon; president of the Mineral Spring college, of Sodaville, Ore., of which institution he was the founder; and is now president of the state normal school, of Drain, Ore. For several years he was the editor of the Oregon School Journal; is the author of a work entitled X-Rays on the Public Schools; and is the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Bascom, Henry Bidleman
bishop, author, was born May 27, 1796, in Hancock, N. Y. He was a bishop of the methodist church; and the author of Sermons from the Pulpit; Mental and Moral Science; and Methodism and Slavery. He died Sept. 8, 1850, in Louisville, Ky.
Bascom, John
author, was born May 1, 1827, in Genoa, N. Y. He is a philosophical writer, and from 1874-87 was president of Wisconsin university, and subsequently professor of political science at Williams college. He is the author of Elements of Psychology; Esthetics; Political Economy for Colleges; Science, Philosophy, and Religion; Natural Theology; The Science of Mind; The Words of Christ; Philosophy of English Literature; Comparative Psychology; Problems in Philosophy; Sociology, Social Theory; Ethics; The New Theology; Historical Interpretation of Philosophy; and A Philosophy of Religion.
Bashford, Herbert
author, poet, was born in 1871, in Sioux City, Iowa.
A poem written at the age of fifteen was accepted by the Critic, and his poems have appeared in several standard works.
Bashford, James Whitford
clergyman, college president, was born in 1849, in Fayette, Wis. He has held various pastorates, had frequent calls to take up educational work, and in 1889 was elected president of the Ohio Wesleyan university.
Bashford, Robert Mckee
lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 31, 1845, in Fayette, Wis. He graduated from the state university of Wisconsin in ancient classics in 1870; and in law the following year. During 1880-85 he was city attorney of Madison, Wis.; a delegate to the national democratic convention in 1884; and in 1890 was mayor of that city.
During 1884-85 and since 1893 he has been professor in a law school of the state university of Wisconsin. During 1892-96 he was a member of the Wisconsin state senate, and served with distinction in that body.
Baskervill, William Malone
educator, author, was born April 1, 1850, in Fayette county, Tenn. He has been professor of Latin and French in Wofford college, S. C.; and of English language and literature in the Vanderbilt university. He is the author of Joel Chandler Harris, a biographical and critical study.
Bass, Edward
bishop, was born Nov. 23, 1726, in Dorchester, Mass. He was consecrated in Philadelphia in 1797, and his jurisdiction extended over the churches in Rhode Island and New Hampshire. He died Sept. 10, 1803, in Newburyport, Mass.
Bass, John H
soldier, business man, financier, was born Nov. 9, 1835, in Salem, Ky. During the war he served the union cause in the thirtieth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry. Heestablished the Fort Wayne Machine works, and in 1869 extended his operations by founding the St. Louis Car Wheel company, of which he was president. Since 1880 he has owned a plant for the manufacture of pig iron in northeastern Alabama, whence that commodity is shipped to his establishments in Fort Wayne, Chicago, and St. Louis. He is the president of the old national bank of Fort Wayne; owns the Brookside farm; and nearly twenty thousand acres of valuable mineral land in Alabama. In 1888 he was a delegate at large to the democratic national convention, and was the same year nominated one of the presidential electors.
Bass, Josiah Luster
merchant, was born Feb. 20, 1853, in DeKalb county, Tenn. He established a large dry goods house in Griffin, Rome and Atlanta; and has been a prominent leader in public industrial affairs.
Bass, Lyman K
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1836, in Alden, N. Y. He was elected district attorney for Erie county in 1865, for three years; and was re-elected in 1868; and served until 1872. He was renominated and was elected to the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses.
Bass, William C
clergyman, college president, was born Jan. 13, 1831, in Augusta, Ga. He entered the ministry of the methodist church in 1852, and has given his later life to the work of education in Georgia. He became a professor in the Wesleyan Female college in 1859, and succeeded to the presidency in 1874.
Bassett, Allan Lee
soldier, journalist, insurance president, was born Feb. 28, 1827, near Birmingham, Conn. For twenty years he was successful merchant of New York city. He served with distinction through the civil war in the twenty-third New York regiment. In 1866 he established The Northern Monthly and New Jersey Magazine, of Irvington, N.
J., which subsequently a became Putnam's Magazine. In 1873 he organized the Prudential Insurance company, now one of the most important institutions of its kind in America; and he became its first president. He died Dec. 4, 1892, in Newark, N. J. His son, Carrol Phillips Bassett, still resides in Newark, N. J.
Bassett, Arthur
merchant, was born Jan. 17, 1851, in Fairfield, Mich. In 1882 he was elected great commander of the Order of the Knights of the Maccabees, at Port Huron, Mich., where he is a wholesale druggist and successful man of affairs.
Bassett, Burwell
congressman, was born in New Kent county, Va. He was a representative in congress from that state in 1805-13, from 1815 to 1819, and from 1821 to 1831.
Bassett, Carroll Phillips
civil engineer, author, was born Feb. 27, 1862, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was president of the New Jersey Sanitary association from 1892-93; is chief engineer of the Commonwealth Water company; and has designed and constructed the waterworks, the sewerage, and sewage purification works of many towns in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware. He is the author of The Conservation of Streams, and Inland Sewage Disposal.
Bassett, Homer Franklin
librarian, was born Sept. 2, 1826, in Florida, Mass. In 1872 he was appointed librarian of the Silas Bronson library, of Waterbury, Conn.
Bassett, J. Anthony
educator, was born Dec. 25, 1850, in Denmark, N. Y. He received a thorough education in the Lowville academy and the Rochester university. For twelve years he was in charge of the departments of science and mathematics in the old Gouverneur Wesleyan seminary; and in 1887 assumed the principalship of the Richfield Springs Union schools.
Bassett, James
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 31, 1834, in Canada. This eminent clergyman has filled various pastorates in Pennsylvania and New York. He is the author of a number of works, and has contributed extensively to church literature.
Bassett, Richard
jurist, United States senator, governor, was born in Delaware. He was a member from Delaware of the convention which formed the constitution, and signed that instrument; and was a senator in congress from 1789 to 1793. He was a presidential elector in 1797, and was the first man who cast his vote for locating the seat of government on the Potomac. He was chief justice of the federal supreme court, and governor of Delaware from 1798 to 1801. He died in September, 1815, in Delaware.
Bassett, Spencer John
educator, author, was born Sept. 10, 1867, in Tarborough, N. C. He is a successful educator and the author of the following works: The Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina; Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina; The Regulators of North Carolina; Suffrage in North Carolina; and Anti-Slavery Leaders in North Carolina.
Bastin, Edson Sewell
educator, author, was born in Wisconsin. In 1893 he was elected to the chair of materia medica and botany in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. He is the author of Lectures on Botany and Materia Medica; Elements of Botany; The College Botany; and Vegetable History.
Batchelder, John Putnam
educator, physician, surgeon, author, was born Aug. 6, 1784, in Wilton, N. H. He was a successful surgeon, and performed many operations of great importance, and requiring extraordinary skill and daring.
He was president of the Academy of Medicine, and of the New York Medical association in 1858. He published Thoughts on the Connection of Life, Mind, and Matter, and other works. He died April 8, 1868, in New York city.