Bentley, Charles Eugene – Bergen, John T
Bentley, Charles Eugene
clergyman, prohibitionist, was born April 30, 1841, near Syracuse, N. Y. This eminent baptist clergyman of Lincoln, Neb., has been chairman of the prohibition state committee of Nebraska, and had official charge of the great amendment campaign of 1890. He has been his party candidate for governor and United States senator, and was formally endorsed as Nebraska's choice for president in the campaign of 1896.
Bentley, Edwin
physician, was born July 3, 1824, in Connecticut. He served in the civil war as surgeon, and in 1886 was post-surgeon at Fort Brown, Texas. He was professor of anatomy in the Pacific medical college of California and has been professor of surgery in the Industrial university of Arkansas since its organization.
Bentley, Henry W
orator, lawyer, legislator, congressman, and financier, was born Sept. 30, 1838, in DeRuyter, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in Morrisville, and subsequently attended Yates Polytechnic Institute at Chittenango, and Judds' private school at Berkshire. For several years he taught school in New York and Illinois, and in 1861 was admitted to the bar. He then opened an office in Boonville, N. Y., where he has attained eminence as one of the leading lawyers of his native state. In 1890 he was elected to the fifty-second congress of the United States, and took an active part in the deliberations of that body, and was a prominent advocate for a ship canal from the great lakes to the Hudson. He was appointed by Governor Flower as commissioner to investigate the charges pending for the removal of Sheriff Beck; and in 1894 he was appointed as surrogate of Oneida county, and filled that office with distinction. He was a delegate to the democratic national convention at Chicago in 1896, and was most pronounced in opposition to the free silver platform. He has been four times elected president of Boonville; is vicepresident of the First national bank of that city, and takes an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state.
Benton, Charles S
congressman, was born in Maine. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1843 to 1849.
Benton, Guy Potter
educator, was born May 26, 1865, in Kenton, Ohio. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university of Delaware. For five years he was superintendent of city schools in Fort Scott, Kan.; and served one term as assistant state superintendent of public instruction of Kansas. This popular educator fills the chair of history and sociology in the Baker university of Baldwin, Kan.
Benton, Herbert E
lawyer, journalist, was born July 31, 1849, in Morris, Conn. He became night editor of the New Haven Daily Palladium, in which capacity he served until his appointment as editor-in-chief in 1880. He served two years as a councilman, four years as alderman, and six years as police commissioner.
Benton, Jacob
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1819, in Waterford, Vt. In 1854-56 he was a member of the state legislature; was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1860; and was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the fortieth and fortyfirst congresses.
Benton, James Gilchrist
soldier, inventor, was born Sept. 15, 1820, in Lebanon, N. H. He was brevetted colonel U. S. army in 1865; designed ordnance appliances; discovered use of electricity to determine velocity; and wrote A Course of Instruction in Ordnance and Gunnery. He commanded the national armory of Springfield, Mass., until his death. He died Aug. 23, 1881, in Springfield, Mass.
Benton, Joel
author, was born May 29, 1832, in Amenia, N. Y. He is a versewriter and critic and the author of Under the Apple Boughs, a collection of verse; and Emerson as a Poet.
Benton, Mæcenas E
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 29, 1849, in Obion county, Tenn. Beginning with 1872 (with three exceptions) he has been a delegate to every democratic state convention held in Missouri, and was president of the conventions held in 1890 and 1896. He was elected prosecuting attorney in 1878 and in 1880, and declined re-election in 1882; was attorney of the United States from March, 1885, to July, 1889; and is the original offensive partisan who was charged with pernicious activity in politics. He has served as a member of the democratic state committee for the state at large; was a delegate to the national democratic convention held in Chicago in 1896, and was a member of the committee on credentials in that body. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Benton, Mortimer Murray
lawyer, state senator, was born in 1807, in Benton, N. Y. He represented Kenton county in the lower house of the Kentucky legislature from 1863 to 1865; was then elected to the senate at the expiration of his term.
Benton, Samuel
congressman, was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1793 to 1798.
Benton, Thomas Hart
statesman, author, was born March 14, 1782, in Hillsborough, N. C. He is an eminent statesman who represented Missouri in the United States senate for thirty years; removed to Tennessee; became an attorney; was elected for one term to the Kentucky legislature; served with his regiment in the war of 1812; began law practice at St.
Louis, Mo., in 1813; established the Missouri Inquirer; killed an opponent in a duel; was elected U. S. senator from Missouri in 1820, and was continuously re-elected for thirty years; was elected member of congress in 1852.
His political writing is notable for its simple, direct style and absence of invective. He is the author of Speeches; Thirty Years' View; History of the Workings of Congress, 1820-50; and Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, 1789- 1856. He died April 10, 1858, in Washington, D. C.
Benton, William Plummer
soldier, was born Dec. 25, 1828, in Newmarket, Md. He was admitted to the bar in 1851, in 1852 appointed prosecuting attorney, and in 1856 made judge of the common pleas court. When Fort Sumter was fired upon, Judge Benton was the first man in Wayne county to respond to ne president's call for 75,000 men. He commanded a brigade at Pea Ridge, and was promoted to brigadier-general for gallantry. He was in the battles of Port Gibson, Jackson, Champion Hills, Black River Bridge, the siege of Vicksburg, and Mobile. He died March 14, 1867, in New Orleans, La.
Berard, Augusta Blanche
author, was born Oct. 29, 1824; in West Point, N. Y. She is an educational writer of West Point, and the author of School History of the United States; School History of England; Manual of Spanish Art and Literature; and Reminiscences of West Point in the Olden Time.
Berard, Claudius
educator, author, was born March 21, 1786, in Bordeaux, France. He arrived in New York in the spring of 1807, and soon afterward became professor of ancient languages in Dickinson college at Carlisle, Pa., where he remained until his appointment, in 1815, as professor of French in the U. S. military academy at West Point. He held this chair until his death, a period of over thirty-three years. He died May 6, 1848, at West Point, N. Y.
Beresford, Richard
congressman. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the continental congress from 1783 to 1785.
Berg, Albert
soldier, journalist, public official, was born June 25, 1861, in Centre City, Minn. He was educated at the Carleton college of Northfield, Minn.; and for three years studied at Gustavus Adolphus college of St. Peter. For three years he was engaged in journalistic work on the Fargo Argus; and in 1886 was elected register of deeds for Chisago county, serving for eight years. In 1892 he was a delegate to the national republican convention; and in 1894 was elected secretary of state of Minnesota, receiving the re-election in 1896.
Berg, Joseph Frederick
clergyman, author, was born in 1812, on the island of Antigua. He was a Dutch reformed clergyman of Philadelphia and a once noted controversialist. He was the author of Lectures on Romanism; and Rome's Policy towards the Bible. He died July 20, 1871, in New Brunswick, N. J.
Berg, Louis De Coppet
architect, engineer, author, was born in 1856. He is an architect and civil engineer of New York city, and has published a valuable work on Safe Building.
Bergen, Christopher August- Us
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 2, 1841, in Bridge Point, N. J. He was educated at Harlingen school, at Edge Hill classical school, and at Princeton college, graduating from the academic department in 1863; studied law, and was licensed by the supreme court of New Jersey as an attorney at law November, 1866, and as a counselor at law November, 1869. He was elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses as a republican.
Bergen, Fanny Dickerson
educator, author, was born Feb. 4, 1846, in Mansfield, Ohio. Mrs. Bergen has dramatized Longfellow's poem of Miles Standish (Boston, 1883). She is a regular contributor to the American Teacher and the Journal of Education, and has written for other periodicals.
Bergen, John T
Congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1831 to 1833.