Bauder, Ezra – Bayard, James A
Bauder, Ezra
educator, was born April 7, 1824, in Indian Castle, N. Y. In 1879 he established a boarding and day school known as Brentsville seminary; and has been engaged in the profession of teaching in Virginia for many years.
Bauder, Levi F
lawyer, poet, was born Jan. 28, 1840, in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a learned lawyer and has served as a justice of the peace in Cleveland, Ohio.
In 1880 he published a volume of poems entitled Passing Fancies.
Baugh, Daniel
manufacturer, was born Oct. 22, 1836, in Chester county, Pa.
His business has been incorporated as The Baugh and Sons Co., capital $1,000,000, Daniel Baugh becoming its president. He is president of the Girard National bank of Philadelphia, Pa.
Baugher, Henry L
educator, author, was born about 1805 in Abbottstown, Pa. He was licensed to preach by the Maryland Lutheran synod; was chosen pastor at Boonesboro, Md., in 1829, and took charge of a classical school in Gettysburg in 1830. The school expanded into a college in 1832, and Mr. Baugher became professor of the Greek language and belles lettres; was elected to the presidency of the college in 1850, and continued in that office until his death. He died April, 1886, in Gettysburg, Pa.
Baugher, Henry Louis
educator, clergyman, journalist, author, was born Aug. 6, 1840, in Gettysburg, Pa. For twenty-four years he was professor of Greek in the Pennsylvania college; and has also filled the same chair in the Howard university of Washington, D. C. He has filled pastorates in Morristown, Pa.; Indianapolis, Ind., and Omaha, Neb. He is now the editor of the Augsburg Sunday-School Teacher, and The Lutheran World; and is the author of Annotations on the Gospel According to St. Luke.
BAUMBACH, was MORITZ WILHELM HERMAN VON, diplomat, banker, born Jan. 13, 1834, in Prussia. He has been the imperial and royal consul of Austro-Hungary; consul of Saxony; and imperial German vice-consul. He is now the president of the German Exchange bank of Milwaukee, Wis.
Baumgardt, Bernhard Richard
astronomist, was born May 19, 1862, in Liverpool, England. He was educated in Sweden, and after graduating spent five years in traveling around the world. From a love of mathematics he took up astronomy, and devotes much of his time to that science in his private observatory in Los Angeles, Cal. He gives public lectures on astronomy, mathematics and philosophy, and has attained a national reputation. In 1891-93 he was secretary of the Oregon Academy of Sciences; and since 1894 has been secretary of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, in which institution he is also chairman of 'the astronomical section. He is also a successful business man, and is interested in many public enterprises.
Bauvais, A
governor. He was acting governor of Louisiana in 1830.
Bawden, John
manufacturer, banker, was born April 10, 1827, in Cornwall, England. He began business for himself in Freehold, N. J., but in 1858 he formed a co-partnership with Gilbert Combs. He is president of the board of health and director of the Central National bank of Freehold.
Baxley, Isaac Rieman
poet, was born in 1850 in Baltimore, Md. He has traveled a great deal, but since 1878 has made his home in California. His published books are The Temple of Alanthur, with Other Poems; The Prophet and Other Poems; Songs of the Spirit; and Beyond the Bank of Mist.
Baxter, Delos W
was born July 29, 1857, in Rochelle, Ill. Since 1881 he has practiced law in Rochelle, Ill. In 1884 he was elected state's attorney of Ogle county and held the office for twelve years-until his election as Illinois state senator in 1896. He also has been mayor of Rochelle.
Baxter, Elisha
governor, was born Sept. 1, 1827, in Rutherford county, N. C.
He was governor of Arkansas during a part of the years 1874-75.
Baxter, Felix Josephus
lawyer, state senator, was born Aug. 10, 1830, in Sutton, W. Va. He has served with distinction as a member of the West Virginia state senate.
Baxter, George A
educator, college president, author, was born July 22, 1771, in Rockingham county, Va. In 1829 he became president of Washington college; in 1832 he was inaugurated professor of theology in the Union Theological seminary; and in 1835 was chosen president of the Hampden Sidney college.
He is the author of Abolition of Slavery; Parity; and the Scriptural Order of Christian Ministry. He died April 14, 1841.
Baxter, Henry
soldier, diplomatist, was born Sept. 8, 1821, in Sidney Plaine, N. Y. During the civil war he was made lieutenant-colonel of the seventh Michigan infantry, and in 1866 was appointed minister resident to Honduras.
Baxter, Horace Henry
railroad builder, was born Jan. 18, 1818, in Saxtons' River, Vt. He built the Cleveland, Norwalk and Toledo railroad. At the outbreak of the civil war he attended the peace congress as a delegate from Vermont, and when that meeting failed of its object he became adjutant-general of Vermont. He died Feb. 17, 1884, in New York city.
Baxter, James Phinney
artist, author and philanthropist, was born in 1831 in Maine. He is well known as the Poet of Maine; and is the author of more than a dozen popular works. He is the honored president of the Maine Historical society. He built and presented to the city of Portland its magnificent public library building, the most beautiful structure in the city. He has served as mayor of Portland, and has been foremost in the development of that city and its institutions. His principal works are George Cleves of Casco Bay, 1630-67; Sir Ferdinando Gorges and His Province of Maine; and Idyls of the Year, a collection of verse.
Baxter, John
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born March 5, 1819, in Rutherford county, N. C. In 1842 he was elected a representative in the state legislature; was a presidential elector in 1844 and 1848; was again in the legislature in 1846, and from 1852 to 1857, serving as speaker of the house in 1852. In 1857 he removed to Knoxville, Tenn.; in 1870 was a member of the state constitutional convention; and in 1877 was appointed United States circuit judge for the sixth judicial circuit. He died April 10, 1886, in Hot Springs, Ark.
Baxter, Katharine Schuyler
author, was born Feb. 22, 1845, in Oswego, N. Y. She is a great-granddaughter of Major-General Philip Schuyler, of the revolutionary army; a member of the Daughters of the Cincinnati, Colonial Dames of America, and the American Authors' guild. She is the author of In Bamboo Lands; A God-Child of Washington; and other works.
Baxter, Lydia
hymn-writer, poet, was born Sept. 2, 1809, in Petersburg, N. Y. She is the author of Gems by the Wayside, a collection of poems, and the hymn, The Gates Ajar. She died Jan. 23, 1874, in New York city.
Baxter, Portus
merchant, legislator, congressman, was born in Brownington, Vt. He was elected a representative from Vermont to the thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth congresses; was also a delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' convention of 1866. He died March 4, 1868, in Washington, D. C.
Baxter, Sylvester
journalist, author, was born in 1850 in Massachusetts. He is a journalist of Boston, prominent in exploiting the Metropolitan park system, and is the author of The Cruise of a Land Yacht, a Boy's Book of Mexican Travel.
Baxter, William
clergyman, author, was born in 1823, in England. He is a clergyman of Cincinnati, whose War Lyrics as originally published in Harper's Weekly were once widely popular. He is the author of The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion; Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, or Scenes and Incidents of the War in Arkansas.
Baxter, William M
lawyer, was born Aug. 30, 1850, in Alexander, S. C.
He is a prominent lawyer of Knoxville, Tenn., and in 1882 became general solicitor of the legal department of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad company.
Bay, William V. N
congressman, was born in New York. Having become a citizen of Missouri he was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851.
Bayard, James Asheton
United States senator, was born July 28, 1767, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He graduated at Princeton college in 1784; after studying law at Philadelphia, commenced the practice in Delaware. In 1796 he was elected a representative in congress from Delaware, serving from 1797 to 1801, when he was appointed minister to France.
In 1804 he was elected to the United States senate, of which body he continued a member until appointed, in 1813, a commissioner to negotiate a peace with Great Britain. He died Aug. 6, 1815, in Wilmington, Del. con-
Bayard, James A
lawyer, gressman, United States senator, was born Nov. 15, 1799, in Wilmington, Del. He was the son of the United States senator bearing the same name, and a brother of Richard H. Bayard. He was a senator in congress from Delaware during 1851-54; and in 1863 he was elected for the third term, but resigned in January, 1864. In 1867 he was appointed to a seat in the senate to fill a vacancy, and subsequently received the election to that office. He was a delegate to the New York convention of 1868. He died June 13, 1880, in Wilmington, Del.