Bayard, John – Beach, Abel
Bayard, John
congressman. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress from 1785 to 1787.
Bayard, Richard H
lawyer, United States senator, was born in 1796 in Wilmington, Del. He was a senator in congress from Delaware from 1836 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1845; and was appointed charge d'affaires to Belgium in 1850. He died March 4, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Bayard, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 11, 1767, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was one of the founders of the New York Historical society, organized in 1804. In 1806 he purchased an estate at Princeton, N. J. For several years he was a member of the New Jersey legislature, and for a long period presiding judge of the court of common pleas of Somerset county. He was one of the founders of Princeton Theological seminary, and joined with Elias Boudinot in establishing the American Bible society and the New Jersey Bible society. He was the author of several law compilations.
He died May 12, 1840, in Princeton, N. J.
Bayard, Samuel
president of the Evansville National bank, was born in Vincennes, Ind. In the early part of the year 1873 he aided in organizing the German National bank of Evansville, of which he is at present a director and one of the largest stockholders. a
Bayard, Thomas Francis
statesman, was born Oct. 29, 1828, in Wilmington, Del. He was chiefly educated at the Flushing school. His early training was for a mercantile life; studied and adopted the profession of the law; and came to the bar in 1851, and has always practiced in his native city. In 1853 he was appointed United States district attorney for Delaware, but resigned in 1854. He was elected a senator in congress from that state in 1869.
On the day of his election his father, James A. Bayard, was also reelected to the senate from the same state -the only instance of the kind which ever occurred. He was re-elected in 1875, and again in 1881. In 1885 he was appointed secretary of state in the cabinet of President Cleveland, and resigned his seat in the senate. He died Sept. 28, 1898, in Dedham, Mass. same
Bayard, William
public official, was born Jan. 1, 1729, in New York. He was a delegate from New York to the colonial congress, held in New York city in 1765. He died in 1804 in Southampton, England.
Bayard, William
merchant, was born about 1764 in New York. He was a large ship owner; traded with all the world; was for many years director of the Bank of America; and in 1810-27 was president of the Chamber of Commerce.
He died Sept. 3, 1850, in New York city. was
Bayles, George
physician, was born Aug. 7, 1836, in New York city. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and from the medical department in the Columbia university in 1859. He has held many important positions, and is president of the board of education of Orange, N. J.
Bayles, James C
soldier, lecturer, journalist, author, was born July 3, 1845, in New York city. In 1870 he became editor of the Iron Age; and in 1874 established The Metal Worker. He has delivered lectures on sanitary topics in New York, and in all of the prominent cities of the Union, and is the author of the first standard American work on the Mechanics of Hygiene, House Drainage and Water Service. In 1883 he was elected president of the New Jersey State Sanitary association, and was appointed a commissioner to devise a system of sewers and sanitary improvements for the city of Trenton.
Bayley, James Roosevelt
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 23, 1814, in New York city. He was a clergyman who entered the Roman catholic church from the episcopal and became archbishop of Baltimore. He was the author of History of the Catholic Church of New York; Memoirs of Bruté, First Bishop of Vincennes; and Pastorals for the People.
He died Oct. 3, 1877. in Newark, N. J.
Bayley, Richard
educator, physician, author, was born in 1745 in Fairfield, Conn. The causes of yellow fever were very carefully studied by him, and in 1797 he published a work in which he contended that its origin was due entirely to local causes, and therefore that it was not contagious. He died Aug. 17, 1801, on Staten Island, N. Y.
Bayley, Thomas
congressman, was born in Somerset county, Md. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1817 to 1823.
Bayley, Thomas M
legislator, congressman, was born in 1775 in Virginia. He entered public life in 1798; continued therein until 1830; and served in both branches of the state legislature. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1813 to 1815. He died in 1834 in Accomac county.
Bayley, William G
civil engineer, railroad manager, was born Sept. 2, 1865, in Hollidaysburg, Pa. Since 1884 he has been in the railway service; during 1890- 94 as engineer maintenance of way; and since 1894 as division superintendent of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railway.
Baylies, Francis
lawyer, congressman, author, was born Oct. 16, 1783, in Taunton, Mass. He was register of probate in Bristol county, Mass., from 1812 to 1820; was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1821 to 1827; and was a member of the state legislature from 1827 to 1832, and in 1835. In 1832 he was appointed charge d'affaires to Buenos Ayres. He was the author of A History of the Plymouth Colony. He died Oct. 28, 1852, in Taunton, Mass.
Baylies, Nicholas
jurist, author, was born in 1772 in Uxbridge, Mass. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1794; studied law, and practiced in Woodstock and Montpelier. From 1831 to 1834 he was a judge of the supreme court of Vermont. He published a Digested Index to the Modern Reports of the Courts of Common Law in England and the United States, in three volumes; and an Essay on Free Agency. He died Aug. 17, 1847, in Lyndon, Vt.
Baylies, William
legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 5, 1743, in Uxbridge, Mass. He graduated at Harvard college in 1760. He was a member of the provincial congress in 1775; often a member of the Massachusetts state council; served many years in the state legislature; and was a presidential elector in 1801. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1805 to 1809. He died Jan. 17, 1826, in Dighton, Mass.
Baylies, William
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 15, 1776, in Dighton, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1813 to 1817, and again from 1833 to 1835.
He served in the state legislature in 1830 and 1831. He died Sept. 27, 1865, in Taunton, Mass.
Baylor, Frances Courtenay
author, was born Jan. 20, 1848, in Fayetteville, Ark. Her writings have been principally for periodicals, in which two of her short stories-The Perfect Treasure and On This Side-attracted wide attention, and were published in book form as one narrative, On Both Sides. Her other works are: Juan and Juanita; and Behind the Blue Ridge.
Baylor, George
soldier, was born Jan. 12, 1752, in Newmarket, Va. He served continuously throughout the revolutionary war. He participated in the surprise of the Hessians at Trenton; carried the news of the victory to congress, and was presented by that body with a horse, and advanced to the rank of colonel in the dragoons in 1777. He died in March, 1784, in Bridgetown, W. I.
Baylor, Robert Emmett Bled-- Soe
clergyman, lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, was born May 10, 1793, in Lincoln county, Ky. He served in the war of 1812. He was elected to the Alabama state legislature in 1824, and in 1829 was sent as a representative from Alabama to the twenty-first congress.
Subsequent to his career in congress he emigrated to the republic of Texas, where he was immediately elected a judge of the district and of the supreme court, and held the office for twenty-five years.
Baylor university was named as an honor warranted by the gifts of land and money made by Judge Baylor. One of the counties of Texas was also named for him. He died Jan. 6, 1874, in Gay Hill, Tex.
Bayly, Thomas Henry
soldier, legislator, jurist, was born in 1810 in Accomac county, Va. While a member of the Virginia legislature he was elected by that body a brigadier-general of the militia of eastern Virginia; and subsequently was elected judge of the circuit superior court of law. In 1844 he was elected to the national house of representatives from the Accomac district, and continued, by successive elections, a member of the house for twelve years. He died June 22, 1856.
Bayne, Thomas M
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born June 14, 1836, in Allegheny, Pa. He took part in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. He was district attorney for Allegheny county in 1870; and was elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses. He died in Allegheny, Pa.
Beach, Abel
lawyer, poet, was born Feb. 7, 1829, in Groton, N. Y. In 1849 he graduated from the Union college of Schenectady, N. Y.
He then taught school in Ithaca and Westfield academies, N. Y.; and was a professor in the State university of Iowa. He next entered into the practice of law; and has attained prominence as a successful pension attorney of Iowa City, Iowa. He a has served as deputy auditor of Iowa, and has held various public positions of trust in his town, county and state. He was one of the principal founders of the Theta-Delta-Chi fraternity, and is prominent member of various societies.
For many years past he has given frequent contributions of poetry to the press, and is the author of Western Airs from the Prairies of Iowa; and several poetic brochures.