Beardsley, Nelson – Beaver, James Addams
Beardsley, Nelson
manufacturer, bank president, was born May 30, 1807, in Southbury, Conn. In 1848 he became one of the incorporators of the Oswego Starch factory, and in 1883 its president, and held the office for the rest of his life. He gained a fortune of seven mil-eral assemblies of Ohio.
Beatty, Harry L
lawyer, state legislator, was born April 4, 1865, in Ravenna, Ohio. He is a successful lawyer of Ravenna; has filled numerous public offices; and served as a member of the seventy-second and seventy-third genlions. He died Jan. 15, 1894, in Auburn, N. Y.
Beardsley, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1790, in Hoosic, N. Y. He held the post of attorney-general of the state. He was a representative in congress from Oneida county, N. Y., to the twenty-second, twenty-third, and a part of the twentyfourth and twenty-eighth congresses. He also held the office of state senator in 1823, and was assistant justice and chief justice of the supreme court of the state, and the federal appointment of United States district attorney for New York.
He died May 6, 1860, in Utica, N. Y.
Beardsley, Samuel Raymond
lawyer, soldier, was born Dec. 31, 1814, in Cherry Valley, N. Y. He was elected mayor of Oswego in 1852; appointed postmaster in 1853; and was defeated as a candidate for the assembly in 1858. He was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the twenty-fourth New York volunteers in 1861; was wounded at Chancellorsville, and was promoted to the colonelcy in 1863. He died Dec. 28, 1863, in Stevensburg, Va.
Beaseley, Nathaniel
pioneer, state senator, was born in 1751. He was a large and powerful man; a noted Indian fighter, and performed valuable services in the St. Clair and Wayne campaigns. He afterward settled in Chillicothe, Ohio; was a member of the general assembly in 1819-20 from Adams county, and senator from Brown in 1820-22. He was also canal commissioner and majorgeneral of militia. He died March 27, 1835, in Knox county, Ohio.
Beasley, Frederick
clergyman, author, was born in 1777, near Edenton, N. C. He was an episcopal clergyman who was provost of the university of Pennsylvania. He was the author of An Examination of the Oxford Divinity; Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind; and Reply to Dr. Channing. He died Nov. 2, 1845, in Elizabethtown, N. J.
Beattie, Elise
author, poet, was born Feb. 27, 1858, in Newbury, Vt. She is the author of a volume of poems entitled Echoes, which was published in 1873.
Beattie, Hamlin
manufacturer, banker, was born May 6, 1835, in Greenville, S. C. In 1859 he established the mercantile house of H. Beattie and Co.; and in 1872 organized and became the president of the National bank of Greenville, S. C.
Beattie, James Henry
civil engineer, state senator, was born Jan. 17, 1847, in Maidstone, Vt. He is a successful farmer and land surveyor of Brunswick, Vt. In 1872-74 he was a member of the Vermont house of representatives; and in 1896 was elected to the state senate.
Beattie, John
contractor, was born June 18, 1824, in Scotland. In 1855 he purchased the Harrison quarry at Fall River; and a year later opened another quarry at Niantic, Conn. Among the most notable structures he has built are the stone towers for the suspension bridge across the Kentucky river; bridges on the Wabash railroad in Indiana; and the great bridge across the Ohio, between Cincinnati and Covington.
Beatty, John
physician, congressman. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1783 to 1785; and a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1793 to 1795. He died April 30, 1826, in Trenton.
Beatty, John
banker, general, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1828, in Sandusky city, Ohio. He entered the third Ohio infantry and became brigadier-general in the civil war. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the fortieth congress to fill a vacancy, and was reelected to the forty-first congress.
Beatty, Martin
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1833 to 1835.
Beatty, Robert Muir
attorneygeneral, was born March 4, 1850, in Mount Morris, Ill. In 1873 he moved to Eureka county, Nev., where he served as district attorney during 1887-88, and continued to reside there until his election to the office of attorney-general in 1894.
Beatty, Samuel
farmer, soldier, was born Dec. 16, 1820, in Mifflin county, Pa. He served nearly two years in the Mexican war as first lieutenant in the third Ohio volunteers. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862, commanded a division in the pattle of Stone River, and was brevetted majorgeneral in 1865. He died May 26, 1885, in Jackson, Ohio.
Beatty, William
congressman, was born in Ireland. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1837 to 1841.
Beatty, William Henry
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 18, 1838, in Lucas county, Ohio. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools of California and Kentucky; and attended the university of Virginia. During 1864-75 he was judge of the district court of Nevada; justice of the supreme court of Nevada during 1875-81; and since 1889 has been chief justice of the supreme court of California.
Beauchamp, James T
lawyer, was born March 13, 1864, in Morgantown, Ky.
He graduated from the Ogden college of Bowling Green, Ky., where he has attained eminence as an able lawyer, making a specialty of equity practice in federal and state courts. After graduation he taught school for awhile, and for two years was clerk of the quarterly court of Warrenton, Ky.
Beauchamp, Jennie B
reformer, author, was born July 9, 1833, in Nelson county, Ky. She is the author of Maplehurst; Digest of Parliamentary Laws; and A Collection of Responsive Bible Readings. The pen of this writer has been especially devoted to reform work, and in 1883 she was elected state president of the Texas Woman's Christian Temperance union.
Beauchamp, Lou J
journalist, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 14, 1851, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been telegraph, news and literary editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star, and has been connected with various leading dailies. Since 1877 he has been principally engaged as a temperance lecturer, and has been called The Western Gough. He is the author of two books: This, That and The Other; and Sunshine.
Beaumont, Andrew
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1837; and was appointed, in 1846, commissioner of public buildings for the District of Columbia.
He died Oct. 30, 1853, in Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Beaumont, Betty Bentley
merchant, author, was born Aug. 9, 1828, in England. She was the only child of Joseph Bentley, the great educational reformer, and author of thirty-three books to improve the methods of education. She became a successful merchant of Woodville, Miss.; and is the author of Twelve Years of My Life; and A Business Woman's Journal.
Beaumont, John G
naval officer, was born Aug. 27, 1821, in Pennsylvania.
He was engaged as commander of a monitor in attacks on the fortifications in Charleston harbor during the civil war, and took a prominent part in the capture of Fort Wagner. He died Aug. 2, 1882.
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant
general, author, was born May 28, 1818, in St. Bernard parish, La.
As a commander of the confederate army he was very popular. He is included among Louisiana's distinguished authors, in virtue of his Commentary on the Campaign and Battle of Manassas, and his Summary of the Art of War. He died Feb. 20, 1893, in New Orleans, La.
Beausay, Richard Faustinus
educator, lawyer, clergyman, was born Feb. 15, 1859, near Greenville, Ohio. He was a printer and newspaper correspondent in his youth, attended school at the Ohio Normal university of Ada, Ohio, and followed educational work for fifteen years. In 1895 he was admitted to the bar at Columbus, and practiced law for a brief period at Upper Sandusky, Ohio.
In 1896 he became a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church, entering the Central Ohio conference at Bellefontaine, and was appointed to the pastorate of Dixon circuit.
Beauvais, Armand
sixth governor of Louisiana, was a creole of that state.
He became governor by constitutional right, being president of the state and exofficio lieutenant-governor at the time of Governor Derbigny's death. He was justice of the peace in 1810; was elected to the state legislature in 1814, to which position he was afterward twice re-elected. During 1822-30 he was a continuous member of the state senate.
Beaver, James Addams
soldier, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Oct. 21, 1837, in Millerstown, Pa. In 1856 he graduated from the Jefferson college. During the civil war he served with distinction and was mustered out on account of wounds received in battle Dec. 4, 1864, as brevet brigadier-general United States volunteers. During 1870-87 he was a member of the national guard of Pennsylvania, in which he served as brigadier-general and major-general. In 1880 he was chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation to the republican national convention. 1882 and 1886 he was the candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, and filled that high office during 1887-91. In 1895 he was appointed judge of the superior court of Pennsylvania; and the same year was elected to that office to serve ten years from January, 1896.
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