Bee, Thomas – Beers, Mrs. Ethelinda
Bee, Thomas
jurist, congressman, author, was born in 1729 in South Carolina. He was a revolutionary patriot of South Carolina; member of the assembly; speaker of the house of representatives; member of the privy council; judge of the state courts; member of the council of safety; and lieutenant-governor. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1780 to 1782, and finally district judge; and published Reports of the District Courts of South Carolina in 1810.
Beebe, Bezaleel
soldier, legislator, was born April 28, 1741, in Litchfield, Conn. As one of Rogers' celebrated rangers, he was engaged in the bloody fight where Putnam was captured, and he was also at the capture of Montreal in 1760.
He was appointed to the command of all the Connecticut troops raised for seacoast defence, with the duties and pay of a brigadier-general. After the war he was frequently a member of the legislature. He died May 29, 1824, in Litchfield, Conn.
Beebe, George M
journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 23, 1836, in New Vernon, N. Y. In 1859 he went to Kansas; was elected to the territorial council, appointed secretary of the territory, and was acting governor. In 1872- 73 he was president of the democratic state convention at Syracuse and Utica, N. Y.; was elected to the legislature of New York in 1873-74; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fourth and forty-hith congresses.
Beebe, John W
educator, journalist, poet, was born Aug. 2, 1853, in Georgetown, Del. He is a successful educator and journalist of Kingman, Kan.; and the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Beebe, Milton Earl
architect, was born Nov. 27, 1840, in Cassadaga, N. Y. He is one of the leading architects in the city of Buffalo, and has built and designed many of the most important buildings of that city. In 1879 he was elected alderman, and in 1881 mayor of Buffalo.
Beebe, Warren Loring
physician, surgeon, was born March 16, 1848, in Belpre, Ohio. He is one of the foremost physicians and surgeons of Minnesota at St. Cloud; has been president of the Minnesota State Medical society; and surgeon to the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroad companies.
Beech, Mrs. Mary Turner
poet, was born in Homer, N. Y. She is a poet of Beechville, Ill.; and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Beecher, Catherine Esther
educator, author, was born Sept. 6, 1800, in East Hampton, N. Y., and is a daughter of L. Beecher, a New England educator of much celebrity at one time, who wrote with the ardor of sincerest conviction.
She was the author of Domestic Economy; Physiology and Calisthenics; Letters to the People; Religious Training of Children; and Domestic Service, True Remedy for the Wrongs of Woman. She died May 12, 1878, in Elmira, N. Y.
Beecher, Charles
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 7, 1815, in Litchfield, Conn., and is a son of L. Beecher. He is a congregational clergyman; and the author of Patmos; Pen Pictures of the Bible; The Eden Tableau; and Redeemer and Redeemed. He edited his father's Life and Correspondence.
Beecher, Edward
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 27, 1803, in East Hampton, N. Y., and was a son of L.
Beecher. He was a congregational clergyman of Illinois, and later of Brooklyn, whose attainments must be considered as the most solid of those of any of the famous children of Lyman Beecher. In his Conflict of Ages (1853) was struck the earliest note of the liberal theology now dominant in the congregational churches. The more important of his other works include Papal Conspiracy Exposed; Baptism; and History of Opinions on the Scriptural Doctrine of Future Retribution. He died in 1895.
Beecher, Mrs. Eunice White
author, was born Aug. 26, 1812, in West Sutton, Mass., and was the wife of H.
W. Beecher. She was the author of From Dawn to Daylight: a Simple Story; Motherly Talks with Young Housekeepers; All Around the House, or How to Make Homes Happy; Letters from Florida; and Mr. Beecher as I Knew Him. She died in 1897.
Beecher, Fary Buchanan
educator, lawyer, was born June 2, 1856, in Steuben county, N. Y. He received his education in the common schools and at Rogersville Union seminary. For several years he was engaged in educational work, and became principal of the Atlanta Union Free school. For five years he was a justice of the peace; and is now a successful lawyer of Atlanta, N. Y. He is a prominent member of various orders.
He has also contributed both prose and verse, as well as law articles, to current literature.
Beecher, George
clergyman, was born May 6, 1809, in East Hampton, N. Y.
He was a clergyman of Chillicothe, Ohio, and a devoted pastor, and an inspiring preacher. He died July 1, 1843.
Beecher, Henry Ward
clergyman, author, was born June 24, 1813, in Litchfield, Conn., and was a son of Lyman Beecher. He was a congregational clergyman widely famous as the pastor of Plymouth church of Brooklyn in 1847- 87. He was an earnest, large-hearted man, though not a deep thinker, and his cheerful influence upon middle-class American thought was very extensive.
His literary work can hardly be said to possess enduring excellence, and much of it is already forgotten, graphic and picturesque as it often is. He was the author of Eyes and Ears; Life Thoughts; Star Papers; Yale Lectures on Preaching; Lectures to Young Men; Speeches on the American Rebellion; Doctrinal Beliefs and Unbeliefs; and Life of Jesus the Christ. His only novel, Norwood, is a collection of successful character studies rather than a finished story. He died March 8, 1887.
Beecher, James Chaplin
soldier, clergyman, was born Jan. 8, 1828, in Boston, Mass. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1848, studied theology at Andover, and on May 10, 1856, was ordained was a congregational clergyman. He mustered out of service in 1866 as brevet brigadier-general. He died Aug. 25, 1886, in Elmira, N. Y.
Beecher, Lyman
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 2, 1775, in New Haven, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of wide fame. While in Boston he was a zealous opponent of unitarianism, and as president of Lane Theological seminary at Cincinnati was noted as an outspoken enemy of slavery. He was a bold thinker, much in advance of his contemporaries. He was the author of Sermons on Temperance; Views in Theology; Scepticism; and Political Atheism. He died Jan. 10, 1863, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Beecher, Philemon
lawyer, congressman, was born in New Haven, Conn.
He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1817 to 1821, and again from 1823 to 1829. He died Nov. 30, 1839, in Lancaster, Ohio.
Beecher, Thomas Kinnicut
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 10, 1824, in Litchfield, Conn., and is a son of Lyman Beecher. He is a congregational clergyman of Elmira, N. Y.; and the author of Our Seven Churches.
Beecher, William Henry
clergyman, was born Jan. 15, 1802, in East Hampton, L. I. For many years he was a home missionary on the Western Reserve, and since has held charges in Putnam, Toledo, and Chillicothe, Ohio, and in Reading and North Brookfield, Mass.
Beecher, Willis Judson
educator, author, was born in 1838 in Ohio. He is a professor of Hebrew in the Auburn Theological seminary; and the author of Farmer Tompkins and His Bible; Drill Lessons in Hebrew; and Testimony of the Historical Books.
Beede, John E
lawyer, was born Feb. 2, 1834, in Sandwich, N. H. He received his education from the common schools and the Friends school of Providence, R. I. He was a millwright before he entered the practice of law. He has been justice of the peace in Arizona and Idaho, master of the grange, and delegate chairman and president of numerous movements and conventions in Idaho.
Beekman, Henry Rutgers
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 8, 1845, in New York city. Previous to his election as judge of the superior court, he was a member of the law firm of Ogden and Beekman. In 1886 he was elected president of the board of aldermen, for which office he was nominated by the united democracy. In 1888 he was appointed counsel to the corporation of the city of New York.
Beekman, James William
state senator, was born Nov. 22, 1815, in New York city, N. Y. He was chosen state senator of New York in 1850, and served two terms. In 1861 he, with Erastus Corning and Thurlow Weed, was appointed by a meeting of conservative men in New York to go to Washington and urge President Buchanan to relieve Fort Sumter. He died June 15, 1877, in New York city, N. Y.
Beekman, Thomas
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1831.
Beeman, Joseph H
business man, legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 17, 1835, in Gates county, N. C. He received an academic education; and was elected to the legislature from Scott county, Miss., in 1883, 1885, 1887, and 1889. He has been connected with the Farmers' Alliance since its organization in the state, having served during this time as chairman of the state executive committee. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Beers, Cyrus
congressman. In 1838 he was elected a representative from New York to the twenty-fifth congress to fill a vacancy.
Beers, Mrs. Ethelinda
author, poet, was born Jan. 13, 1827, in Goshen, N. J. She was the author of General Frankie, a juvenile tale; and All Quiet Along the Potomac, and other poems. She died Oct. 10, 1879, in Orange, N. J.