Beers, Henry Augustin – Belknap, George Eugene
Beers, Henry Augustin
educator, author, was born July 2, 1847, in Buffalo, N. Y. He is a professor of English literature at Yale university; and the author of The Ways of Yale; A Suburban Pastoral and Other Stories: From Chaucer to Tennyson; Life of N. P. Willis; Outline Sketch of English Literature; Initial Studies in American Letters. Verse:
Odds and Ends; and The Thankless Muse.
Beers, Robert Welsted
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 3, 1860, in Easton, Pa. He graduated from Lafayette college in 1880, and entered Princeton seminary in 1882. He is a successful clergyman and the author of Mormon Puzzle.
Beers, Wayland L
clergyman, was born Dec. 15, 1867, in Montana, N. J.
He graduated from the Peddie institute in 1890; from the Brown university in 1895; and subsequently from the Union seminary and Columbia university. He has attained success as a unitarian clergyman, and now fills a pastorate in Union Springs, N. Y.
Beeson, Henry W
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1841 to 1843.
Beeson, Jasper Luther
educator, chemist, was born Aug. 31, 1867, in Keener, Ala. He graduated from the university of Alabama, with the degree of M. A.; was assistant professor of physics in his alma mater, and later chemist to the Alabama Geological Survey. In 1893 he graduated from the Johns Hopkins university in chemistry with the degree of Ph. D., whereupon he was elected professor of agricultural chemistry in the Audubon Sugar school of New Orleans. He is the inventor of standard chemical apparatus for agricultural analysis, which are in use both in America and Europe.
He is a prominent member of various scientific bodies and has published several pieces of original investigation work upon sugar and the sugar cane.
Beeson, John Wesley
educator, college president, was born March 31, 1866, in Keener, Ala. This eminent educator received his education at the university of Alabama. He became president of the Arcadia college of Louisiana, and subsequently was made president of the Marengo Female college of Demopolis, Ala.
Begole, Josiah W
educator, business man, congressman, governor, was born Jan. 20, 1815, in Groveland, N. Y.
He received a public school education; removed to Genesee county, Mich., in 1836; taught school during the winters; became a farmer in 1839, and followed that occupation until 1856. He was elected county treasurer from 1856 to 1864; and commenced the lumbering business in 1863. He was elected to the state senate in 1871; was an alderman for the city of Flint for three years; a delegate to the national republican convention at Philadelphia in 1872; and was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-third congress. In 1882 he was elected governor of Michigan for the term of two years from January, 1883.
Belcher, Hiram
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born in Augusta, Maine.
For four or five years he was a member of the Maine legislature; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1848. He died May 7, 1857.
Belcher, Jonathan
merchant, governor, was born Jan. 8, 1681. He was graduated at Harvard in 1699; and spent six years in Europe. Having returned to Boston and become a merchant there, agent of the colony, and on Gov. Burnet's in 1729 he was sent to England as the death in 1730 he was appointed governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, which office he held for eleven years. He died Aug. 31, 1757, in Elizabethtown, N. J.
Belcher, Joseph
clergyman, author, was born April 15, 1794, in Birmingham, England. He was a baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, who came thither from England in 1844. His complete works number over two hundred volumes.
Among them are The Baptist Pulpit of the United States; The Clergy of America; History of Religious Denominations in the United States; and Hymns and Their Authors. He died July 10, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Belcher, Nathan
manufacturer, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 23, 1813, in Griswold, Conn.
He was a member of the house of representatives of Connecticut in 1846 and 1847, and of the state senate in 1850. He was a presidential elector in 1852; and was a representative in congress from 1853 to 1855.
Belcher, Samuel Clifford
soldier, lawyer, was born March 20, 1839, in Farmington, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin college in 1857. He was captain and major in the sixteenth regiment of Maine infantry in the civil war; and in 1879 was inspector-general of the Maine militia, with the rank of brigadiergeneral. He has practiced law for nearly thirty years, and his reputation as an astute lawyer is widespread.
Belden, Albert Clinton
surgeon, was born Sept. 14, 1845, in Castile, N. Y. He settled in the practice of his profession in Akron, Ohio; and had one of the largest practices in the city. He was made surgeon of the eighth regiment Ohio national guard. He died Dec. 20, 1890.
Belden, Ellsworth Burnett
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1866 in Racine county, Wis. He graduated from the law department of the Wisconsin State university; and in 1889 became county judge, and was thrice re-elected without opposition. He is a director in the Racine Building and Loan association; a trustee of Racine college, and is prominently identified with the business and public affairs of his native county.
Belden, George O
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1827 to 1829.
Belden, James Jerome
business man, banker, congressman, was born Sept. 30, 1825, in Fabius, N. Y. He is a charter member of the order of the Founders and Patriots of America, and has been elected councilor-general by the societies of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. He has been extensively engaged in business pursuits for forty years, having been largely interested in and director of several national banks; is president and principal owner of the Robert Gere bank of Syracuse, which he founded, and has been trustee of the Syracuse university since it was founded. He was elected mayor of Syracuse in 1877, and re-elected gate to the republican national convenin 1878 without opposition; was a deletion at Chicago in 1880; and was elected as a republican to the fiftieth, fiftyfirst, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fifth congresses.
Belden, Josiah
merchant, statesman, was born May 4, 1815, in Cromwell, Conn. When Captain Jones, of the frigate United States, took possession of California for the government, Mr.
Belden was appointed alcalde of Santa Cruz, and with his own hands raised the American flag in California for the first time. He was the first mayor of San Jose in 1850. He died April 23, 1892.
Belding, Milo Merrick
manufacturer, was born April 3, 1833, in Ashfield, Mass. In 1866, with his brothers, he started a silk factory in Rockville, Conn. In 1874 they built a second silk mill in Northampton, Mass.; and later one in Belding, Mich.
Belford, James B
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 28, 1837, in Lewiston, Pa. He was educated at Dickinson college; studied and practiced law; and was appointed a judge of the supreme court of Colorado in 1870, and served five years. He was elected a representative from Colorado to the forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth congresses.
BELFORD, JOSEPH McCRUM
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 5, 1852, in Mifflingtown, Pa. He received a classical education, graduating from Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa., in 1871; and engaged in academic work for some years. He removed to Long Island in 1884; was admitted to the bar in 1889, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Belknap, Charles Eugene
was born Oct. 17, 1846, in Massena, N. Y. He removed with his parents to Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1855; was educated in the common schools of Grand Rapids, left. school Aug. 14, 1862, and enlisted in twenty-first regiment, Michigan infantry; was promoted to different positions, and received a captain's commission Jan. 22, 1864, at the age of seventeen years and three months; and served until June, 1865, with the army of the Cumberland . He served eleven years in the fire department of Grand Rapids as captain of a company, assistant chief, and chief; seven years on board of education; served two years as alderman; served one year as mayor ; has been a member of the board of control of state school institution for the deaf for the past four years; and is engaged in the manufacture of wagons and sleighs. He was elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses.
In 1892 he was appointed chairman of the Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge Military Park commission for the state of Michigan. He has contributed war stories and Chippewa Indian myths to current literature.
Belknap, George Eugene
naval officer, author, was born Jan. 22, 1832, in Newport, N. H. Since 1847 he has been in the United States naval service, tain; was made commodore in 1885; and and in 1875 was commissioned postcapis now rear-admiral. He is the author of valuable papers on Deep Sea Soundings; is a member of the American Geographical society; and has received a silver medal as a recognition of merit from portrait hangs in the new Library buildthe Geographical society of France. His ing of the New Hampshire state capítol.