Beaman, Fernando C – Beardsley, Morris Beach
Beaman, Fernando C
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 28, 1814, in Chester, Vt. He was prosecuting attorney for Lenawee county, Mich., six years; was judge of probate four years; and was presidential elector in 1856. He was elected to the thirty-seventh, thirtyeighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, and fortyfirst congresses as a republican.
Bean, Benning M
state senator, congressman, was born in 1782 in New Hampshire. He occupied a seat in the state legislature for five years, and was president of the senate in 1832; was a state councilor in 1829; and a representative in congress from 1833 to 1837. He died Feb. 9, 1866, in Moultonborough, N. H.
Bean, Curtis C
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 4, 1828, in Tamworth, N. H. He was appointed attorney-general for the eleventh judicial circuit of Tennessee; and was a representative in the state legislature in 1866 and 1867. In 1868 he moved to Arizona territory and settled at Prescott. He was a member of the upper house in the territorial assembly in 1879, and in 1884 was elected delegate from Arizona to the forty-ninth congress.
Bean, Irving M
soldier, banker, was born April 27, 1838, in Essex county, N. Y. He attained the rank of provost marshal in the civil war. In 1863 he was elected president of the Forest City bank; and in 1867 president of the Northwestern Iron company.
Bean, Mary P
educator, was born about 1818. She opened a seminary for young ladies, which for twenty-four years was one of the most prominent in New York city. She died in New York city.
Bean, Samuel
physician, clergyman, lecturer, was born March 24, 1842, in Canada West. For many years he was engaged in school teaching; has been a successful public lecturer and a physician and clergyman of Bronson, Fia., where he has also been justice of the peace and a successful merchant.
Bean, William
the first white settler west of the Alleghanies. He was a companion of Daniel Boone in his visit to Kentucky in 1760, and returned in 1768 and settled with his family on Boone's creek, a small tributary of the Watauga.
Beard, Andrew
inventor, was born in 1849 in Alabama. He went into millwrighting in Hardwicks; built his first mill there; and three years later succeeded in building four more. In 1889 he discovered the rotary engine.
Beard, Daniel Carter
artist, author, was born June 21, 1850, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1878 he removed to New York as an illustrator, and there studied art. He is the author of American Boy's Handy Book; Moonlight; Six Feet of Romance; and American Boy's Book of Spirits. war.
Beard, Frank
artist, author, the third son of J. H. Beard, was an artist for Harper and Brothers during the civil He devotes himself particularly to character sketches, in the production of which he has attained remarkable facility. He lectures on various topics, accompanying himself with crayon sketches on the blackboard. He was for a time professor of the fine arts in Syracuse university. He has published The Blackboard and the Sunday School.
Beard, George Miller
physician, author, was born May 8, 1839, in Montville, Conn. He was a New York physician, and the author of American Nervous Diseases; Causes and Consequences; The Scientific Basis of Delusions; Clinical Researches in Electro-Surgery; Medical Uses of Electricity; Physiology of Mind- Reading; Stimulants and Narcotics; Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft and Its Practical Application in Our Own Time; and some works of lesser note. He died Jan. 23, 1883, in New York.
Beard, Henry
soldier, artist, the son of J. H. Beard, was born in 1841 in Ohio.
He was a captain in the thirtieth Missouri volunteers at twenty-one years of age. He painted genre subjects in oils and water-colors, and made the designs for many of Prang's publications. He died Nov. 19, 1889, in New York city, N. Y.
Beard, James Carter
lawyer, artist. He is a lawyer by profession, and has made spirited drawings of birds and animals, which are to be found in the best illustrated books and periodicals of the day.
Beard, James Henry
painter, was born in 1814, in Buffalo, N. Y. His family removed when he was a child to Ohio, and he eventually settled in Cincinnati, where he devoted himself for many years to portrait painting; Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and other distinguished persons being among his sitters. Of late years he has devoted himself chiefly to animal painting, in which branch of art he has achieved success. Among his best known works are: Peep at Growing Danger; The Widow; Mutual Friend; There's Many a Slip; Consultation; Don't You Know Me; Heirs at Law; Which Has Preëmption; The Mississippi Flood; Barn Yard.
Beard, John Shepard
lawyer, was born June 14, 1859, in Tallahassee, Fla.
He received his education in his native city and the university of the south. He has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Pensacola, Fla., where he has filled several public positions of honor.
Beard, Richard
educator, college president, author, was born Nov. 27, 1799, in Sumner county, Tenn. He was graduated at Cumberland university, Tennessee, in 1832; and became president of the university in 1843. On the founding of the Theological school of the university in 1853, he resigned the presidency of the university and took the chair of systematic theology, being in reality for the next twenty-five years both principal and professor. He was a leader in the Cumberland Presbyterian organization, and published Systematic Theology; also Biographical Sketches; and Why I Am a Cumberland Presbyterian. He died Dec. 2, 1880, in Lebanon, Tenn.
Beard, William Henry
inventor, was born Oct. 12, 1839, in Richmond, Mass. The Beard hydraulic shield was used in the construction of the great railway tunnel under the St. Clair river at Port Huron and Sarnia, between the United States and Canada, as well as in excavating the underground railway tunnels in London and Glasgow, the Hudson river tunnel, and other similar works.
He is the designer of many other inventions.
Beard, William Holbrook
artist, was born April 13, 1825, in Painesville, Ohio. He studied art abroad, and he is widely known for his pictures of allegory and humor portrayed by animal and human creatures. He has written a textbook on art entitled Action in Art. Humor in Animals is another book published a few years ago, besides various magazine. articles. The Spirit of the Storm is considered his greatest work.
Beardsley, Alonzo
lawyer, manufacturer, was born July 11, 1820, in Venice, N. Y. He was elected secretary of the Oswego Starch factory, and continued in this position until 1858, when he became treasurer. In 1866 he entered the Cayuga Chief Manufacturing Co., and carried on the manufacture of the Cayuga Chief mower and reaper.
Beardsley, Arthur
engineer, was born Nov. 1, 1843, in Esopus, N. Y. During 1867-68 he was assistant engineer at the Hoosac tunnel, Mass., and from 1863 till 1872 professor of civil engineering and industrial mechanics at the university of Minnesota. In 1872 he became professor of civil and mechanical engineering in Swarthmore college, where he organized a manual training department, of which he is director.
Beardsley, Charles
physician, journalist, state senator, was born Feb. 18, 1830, in Knox county, Ohio. He practiced medicine at Oskaloosa, Iowa, until 1861; was editor of the Herald of that place from 1858 to 1865; and of the Burlington Hawkeye from 1865 to 1874. He was a member of the state senate in 1870, 1872, and 1873; and in 1879 was appointed fourth auditor of the treasury at Washington.
Beardsley, Eben Edwards
clergyman, author, was born in 1808 in Stepney, Conn. He is an episcopal clergyman of New Haven; and the author of History of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut; Lives of Samuel Johnson, the First President of King's College, New York, William Samuel Johnson, president of Columbia College; and Samuel Seabury, Bishop of Connecticut. He died in 1891.
Beardsley, Hosea L
soldier, clergyman, was born June 11, 1838, in Delaware county, N. Y. He served with distinction during the civil war; first in the eighteenth regiment, Iowa volunteer infantry, and was promoted to first lieutenant of the second regiment, Arkansas infantry. Since 1866 he has been clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church; and since 1885 has been pastor of the Simpson Methodist Episcopal church of Denver, Colo.
Beardsley, Isaac H
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 1, 1831, in North Harpersfield, N. Y. For nearly fifty years he has been a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church; and has filled pastorates in New York, Ohio, and for the past thirty years in Colorado. During the civil war he was a chaplain in the Union army. He is the author of Echoes from Peak and Plain; and a Genealogical History of the Beardsley family.
Beardsley, Levi
lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born Nov. 13, 1785, in Hoosic, N. Y. In 1825 he was elected to the state assembly that passed the first railroad charter in the United States. He was elected to the state senate in 1829; reelected in 1834; and was president of the senate in 1838, and for many years judge of the court of errors of New York. sides his legal opinions, he published an autobiographical volume entitled Reminiscences. He died March 19, 1857, in New York.
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Beardsley, Morris Beach
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Aug. 13, 1849, in Trumbull, Conn. He graduated from Yale university and Columbia college law school, and has been judge of the Bridgeport probate court for sixteen years; and member of the general assembly of Connecticut since 1893.