Bellamy, Orlando Rollin – Bender, John S
Bellamy, Orlando Rollin
educator, poet, was born Aug. 10, 1856, in Vevay, Ind. He attended the DePauw university of Greencastle, and while there wrote an essay in poetry. As a student he won the honors of his class, and received a gold medal as a prize in mathematics. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Songs by the Wayside.
Bellamy, William
author, was born in 1846 in Massachusetts. He is a Boston writer who has published a volume of poems entitled A Century of Charades; and A Second Century of Charades.
Bellas, Henry Hobart
soldier, author, was born June 30, 1846, in Ebensburg, Pa. He graduated from the university of Cambridge. From 1873-80 he was an officer of the United States army, when he was placed on the retired list as captain of cavalry. He is the author of various genealogical and historical publications.
Bellinger, Joseph
congressman.
He was a presidential elector in 1809; and a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1817 to 1819.
Bellingham, Richard
colonial governor, was born in 1592 in England.
He settled in Boston, and in 1641 was elected governor; was re-elected in 1654, and again in 1665. He was chief magistrate of Massachusetts for the remainder' of his life, being deputy governor thirteen years and governor ten. He died Dec. 7, 1672.
Bellows, Albert F
painter, was born Nov. 29, 1829, in Milford, Mass. His early works, mostly genre pictures in oil, include The First Pair of Boots; The Sorrows of Boyhood; and The Lost Child. Among his later water-colors are The Notch at Lancaster; Afternoon in Surrey; The Thames at Windsor; The Reaper's Child; and New England Homestead. He died Nov. 24, 1883, in Auburndale, Mass.
Bellows, Benjamin
soldier, legislator, was born Oct. 6, 1740, in Walpole, N. H. He was a member of the colonial and afterward of the state legislature; and was appointed a delegate to the continental congress in 1781, but his business forced him to decline. He was a member of the state convention that ratified the federal constitution in 1788. He presided over the New Hampshire electoral college that voted for Washington in 1788, and was a member of the one that voted for John Adams in 1796. He was active in the colonial and state militia, rising from the rank of corporal to that of brigadier-general, and served during the revolutionary war as a colonel. He died June, 1802, in Walpole, Mass.
Bellows, Henry Adams
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 25, 1803, in Walpole, Mass. In 1826 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1828 opened an office in Littleton, N. H. He was appointed associate judge of the supreme court in 1859, and after ten years of service in that capacity became chief justice on the death of Judge Perley. He died March 11, 1873, in Concord, N. H.
Bellows, Henry Whitney
clergyman, author, was born June 11, 1814, in Boston, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of prominence in New York city, well known at one time as the president of the United States sanitary commission. He was the author of Restatements of Christian Doctrine; Sermons; Relation of Public Amusements to Public Morality; and The Old World in Its New Face. He died Jan. 30, 1882, in New York city.
Belmont, August
diplomat, was born in Germany. In 1853 he was appointed by President Pierce charge d'affaires to The Hague, and afterward became minister resident, resigning in 1858. In the latter capacity he negotiated a highly important consular convention, for which and other diplomatic services he received special thanks from Washington. He was a leading delegate to the democratic convention of 1860; and from that year until 1872 was chairman of the national democratic committee, when he resigned.
Belmont, August
banker, was born Feb. 18, 1853, in New York city. He is now at the head of August Belmont and Co., the American representatives of the Rothschild bank abroad. The family make their country home at Hempstead, on Long Island.
Belmont, Perry
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 27, 1851, in New York city. He graduated at Harvard college in 1872; and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.
Belo, Alfred H
journalist, was born May 27, 1839, in Salem, N. C. In 1865 he became connected with the Galveston News; and in 1885 published the Dallas News, which has achieved a great and rapid success.
Belrose, Louis
author, was born in 1845 in Pennsylvania. He was a writer whose only published work of note is Thorns and Flowers, a volume of poems.
He died in 1896.
Belser, James E
congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from Alabama from 1843 to 1845. He died Jan. 6, 1859, in Montgomery, Ala.
Beltzhoover, Frank Eckels
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 6, 1841, in Cumberland county, Pa. In 1858 he entered Pennsylvania college, at Gettysburg, where he graduated in 1862.
He was admitted to the bar in 1864, and has practiced since.
In 1868 and 1873 he was chairman of the democratic executive committee of the county; and in 1874 was elected district attorney, and served for three years. In 1878 he was elected to the forty-sixth congress, forty-seventh in 1880, and also to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.
Beman, Nathaniel Sydney Smith
clergyman, was born Nov. 26, 1785, in New Lebanon, N. Y. He became pastor of the presbyterian church in Troy, N. Y., in 1822, and continued as such for upward of forty years. He was actively interested in the temperance, moral reform, revival, and anti-slavery movements of his time. Besides sermons, essays, and addresses, which have been separately published, he was the author of a volume entitled Four Sermons on the Atonement. He was also one of the compilers of the hymn-book adopted by the new-school branch of the presbyterian church. He died Aug. 8, 1871, in Carbondale, Ill.
Bement, George William
merchant, was born March 4, 1824, in Stockbridge, Mass. In 1843 he located in Terre Haute, and by more than fifty years of unremitting application and prudent husbanding of means has accumulated large wealth in the wholesale grocery business.
Bement, William Barnes
manufacturer, inventor, was born May 10, 1817, in Bradford, N. H. He went to Philadelphia and devoted himself there to the invention and manufacture of machine tools and machinery.
The Industrial Works, as they were called, grew in time both in size and prestige to equal the best of their class in America, and they are said to stand second only to the Whitworth shops in England.
Bemis, Arthur L
educator, journalist, legislator, was born March 20, 1858, in Elyria, Ohio. For many years he was professor of chemistry, general history, and penmanship in the Ionia schools, Mich. Since 1890 he has been the editor and owner of the Carson City Gazette; and in 1897-98 was a member of the Michigan state legislature.
Bemis, Edward Webster
educator, author, was born in 1860 in Massachusetts. He is a professor of economics in the University of Chicago; and the author of History of Co-operation in the United States; and Municipal Ownership of Gas in the United States.
Bemis, George Pickering
journalist, business man, was born March 15, 1838, in Boston, Mass. He is a descendant of Timothy Pickering, of revolutionary fame. In 1861 he enlisted in the second battalion of Massachusetts light infantry, serving about seven months, after which he joined George Francis Train in London, where that gentleman was introducing street railways; and for over twenty years he was his private secretary.
He also became general manager and editor of the London American, the only American newspaper in Europe during the civil war. In 1892 he became mayor of Omaha, Neb., and received the re-election three successive times. During his entire term he defended the interests of the taxpayers, and saved them millions of dollars.
Bemiss, Samuel Merrifield
physician, surgeon, author, was born Oct. 15, 1821, in Nelson county, Ky. From 1862 till 1865 he was a surgeon in the confederate army. After the war he settled in New Orleans, and in 1866 he became professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the university of Louisiana. He is the editor of the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal.
Bender, John S
civil engineer, lawyer, was born Jan. 26, 1827, near Carlisle, Pa. He was a miller by trade until 1852; a land surveyor and civil engineer from choice until 1856; and since that time has been engaged in the practice of law.
Since 1854 he has taken great interest in politics; was contingent elector for Douglas; supported Lincoln during the war of 1861; and in 1878 joined the independent movement for reform; was elector at large in Indiana for Butler; and he has held many other prominent offices in his county and state for the furtherance of the movement. He is the author of A Hoosier's Experience in Europe; Money: Its Definition; and other works.